Online sales jumped 10.6% from a year ago and in-person spending rose 6.8%.
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North Macedonia takes emergency anti-pollution steps
Its capital was recently ranked as the third-most pulluted city in the world.
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Zach Bryan drops ‘All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster’ album
The statement doesn’t mention Ticketmaster by name except in the new album title, though he tagged the company in a separate Instagram post displaying the track listing.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
As other states modernize, Maine car safety inspection lags behind
Maine is the last state in New England without a digital system to track car safety inspections.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Tree chic: Christmas tradition keeps branching out
While many homes have Christmas trees on display, no two are quite the same.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News, Politics
With bill’s passage, lobster industry welcomes 6-year break from new regulations
The omnibus spending legislation includes a rider that freezes new federal regulation of lobstering practices. President Biden is expected to sign the bill into law.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Judge kept FTX execs’ plea deals secret to get founder to U.S.
Prosecutors had been concerned that if Sam Bankman-Fried found out his friends were cooperating, he might try to fight extradition from the Bahamas, where he had been arrested at the request of U.S. authorities.
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Elon Musk tells investors he’ll pause on Tesla stock sales
A significant portion of the proceeds from selling his Tesla stock has gone to help fund his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, which has been marked by chaos since he took over.
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Journalists who won’t delete Musk tweets remain locked out of Twitter
Twitter has privately demanded that the suspended journalists delete the tweets that drew Musk’s ire in the first place – a condition the reporters have refused to accept.
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Owners of Knox County contracting business must pay customers $744,000, judge rules
Bankruptcy liens against Malcolm and Elizabeth Stewart and their failed company were recently filed, and a criminal case against Malcom Stewart continues.