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As a wine producer, Wisconsin's Coulee region isn't likely to threaten the Napa Valley anytime soon. But grapes could soon supplant tobacco as the chief crop in the area, agricultural experts say.

Nearly half of the directors who were in charge when the seeds were planted for Enron Corp.'s descent into bankruptcy are gone or soon will be.

The Charlotte-based bank -- one of the largest commercial banks in the country recruited the FBI's former counterintelligence and national security chief to oversee its own battle against terrorism.

Lawmakers from two peanut-rich states clashed Tuesday over what's best for their farmers as the Senate debated a farm bill expected to revamp the decades-old peanut program.

SunTrust announced that it has appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers as the Corporation's auditor for the 2002 calendar year.

European Union finance ministers Tuesday approved new rules for taxing Internet purchases of software, music and other ``virtual goods'' from non-EU companies.

Microsoft Corp. released a patch to correct six new security vulnerabilities in its Internet Explorer browser, including one that could let a hacker run any program on a victim's computer.

Cox Communications Inc. posted a wider loss in its fourth quarter, hurt by an increase in programming costs and a weak advertising environment.

Kenneth Lay, the presidential pal who built Enron into a darling of Wall Street only to see it collapse in scandal, exercised his constitutional rights Tuesday and refused to testify to Congress.

Domino's Pizza LLC announced Tuesday that it will acquire 82 franchised stores in the Phoenix market.