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Harry Blazer says he will close his last two Harry's In A Hurry stores in Buckhead and Cobb County next week.

Officials with four cruise ship lines will visit the Gulf Coast next month to evaluate the Mississippi State Port at Gulfport as a destination for their ships.

Cingular Wireless today announced that consistent with its plans for the year, it will invest more than $500 million in the Southeast (Georgia, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Kentucky) in 2002.

Imagine sending a text message to your friends by simply knowing their mobile number. No need to worry about whose
wireless service they have.

Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket goods rose a larger-than-expected 2.6 percent in January, suggesting the nation's battered manufacturing sector is edging toward a recovery.

Backed by business and farm groups, Republicans in Congress are mounting an effort to drive a final stake through the heart of the estate tax -- which would be repealed for a single year, only to rise again under the just-enacted tax cut.

Four regional Bell telephone companies worked years and laid out millions of dollars for advertisements and campaign contributions trying to win the right to sell long-distance Internet services without opening their networks to competition.

Federated Department Stores Inc., whose stores include Bon Marche, Macy's and Bloomingdale's, posted a loss of $447 million in the fourth quarter as the terrorist attacks and the recession hurt sales and the company took a large loss for its impen

Four former employees of a contractor doing work at a Georgia Power plant have filed suit against the power company and their previous employers, claiming they suffered racial discrimination and harassment and were fired when they complained about it.

United Parcel Service Inc. said Tuesday it expects first-quarter earnings to be at the high end of its earlier forecasts, citing its successful effort to curb expenses.