MEMPHIS - He was a sophomore in high school and a student who had soured on football.

Maurice Jones didn't want to play the sport anymore. He had not enjoyed his freshman season and planned a football-free fall.

Prodding from his former teammates and friends, however, convinced him to give the White Station program, with a newly hired coach, another try.

Jones met with first-...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- On Tuesday, Wake Forest resident Kendra Graham took a bag of recently purchased clothes back to the Children's Place in the Triangle Town Center.

She returned the merchandise and then repurchased it using the 15 percent off coupon she'd just received in the mail.

"I saved $8," she said. "But $8 is lunch or it's $8 toward cute shoes."

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PARIS - Three weeks of spring collections on the runways earlier this autumn ended with collections from a flurry of big names, including Lanvin, Yves Saint Laurent and Louis Vuitton.

But it was John Galliano who made the most lasting impression with a show that wasn't even about clothes. For an industry that feeds off the rich, young and thin, and rarely features a nonwhite face, he off...

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The proportion of small businesses that provide health insurance to their workers has fallen to 69 percent in Florida, down from 80 percent in 2002, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business.

Meanwhile, 59 percent of small business owners surveyed said their health-insurance costs rose by 10 percent or more this year. One-third of the employers bore the incr...

ORMOND BEACH -- Don Clark and Kevin Gray both grew up in the northern United States where they spent countless snow-and-ice filled winters sledding, snowmobiling and, of course, playing ice hockey.

Both are grown men now with families and both live in Volusia County, where ice hockey rinks are few and far between.

The demand for ice time is constantly growing in Florida and the scar...

We live in a media-driven, commercial culture, where it's hard to escape the ever-increasing waves of advertising and infotainment. Meanwhile, our public spaces are eroding, and what were once safe havens – schools, museums, libraries, parks – are now awash in commercials.

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One's top priority when going on a long hike in the woods would be comfortable shoes.

The same can be said about going to see "Groundworks," an equally exhaustive exhibition of ecological art by more than 20 artists and artist t...

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(OPENPRESS) November 10, 2005 -- What would you do with 2.3 million and a website?

Two London based South Africans have launched a 5 year challenge to sell 2,3 million pixels at 10p a pizel. Why? By 2010, an estimated 2.3 million children will be orphaned as a result of AIDS in South Africa and thousands more will be left vulnerabl...

Ellen Reagan is happy that the new Mt. Nebo Pointe shopping center will have a Target, one of her favorite stores.

"Right now, I have to go all the way over to McKnight Road if I want to go to Target," said Ragan, who lives in Bellevue.

If it opens by the end of the year as expected, Sportsman's Warehouse would be the first store in the shopping center at the Camp Horne Road exit ...