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Investors succumbed to worries about earnings and sold stocks sharply lower Monday while they awaited fourth-quarter results that will begin in earnest this week.

Microsoft Corp. added 980,000 MSN Internet access subscribers in the last three months of 2001, bringing its total to 7.7 million subscribers, the company said Tuesday.

Athens' only air passenger service intends to halt flights between Athens-Ben Epps Aiport and Charlotte, N.C., on April 14.

Delta Air Lines said Monday it has resumed allowing children to fly by themselves on direct and connecting flights.

The Home Depot today announced plans to consolidate two of its nine divisional offices to form a new division that will service its stores in the Southeastern U.S. and Caribbean.

AFC Enterprises Incorporated said today it has signed a franchising agreement to open 100 Church's Chicken restaurants in 19 African countries by 2007. The first is scheduled to open in April in South Africa.

Grits are long overdue for a state honor, says one Georgia representative who proposed Monday making the Southern breakfast staple the state's official prepared food.

Internet users looking to give friends and relatives an easy-to-remember e-mail or Web site address can now turn to their own name.

U.S. poultry growers have a chicken-and-egg dilemma. For decades, people who raise chickens for dinner tables have been honing their "selective breeding" skills and have gotten pretty good at growing the fattest bird possible.

The scenario is frustratingly familiar to cell phone users: Warning beeps, "My battery's going," silence. Who hasn't gotten disconnected?