Henry Moses, a proprietor of Moses and Moses Tobacconist & General Store, was working a fairly large midday cigar when I found him this week behind the front counter of his store, a place he calls Brooklyn’s second town hall.
His eyes grew a little wider and he took an extra long contemplative puff when I [...]

In a front-page story two weeks ago, our reporter Sarah Portlock took a walk along the Fulton Mall shopping strip in Downtown Brooklyn and found that at least 11 chain stores have more than one location in that short eight-block stretch.
One store, Payless Shoes, has three!
Real-estate observers said that such saturation makes sense from a [...]

Southern New Mexico’s largest city has seen a lot of growth in the past decade. Where there used to be open desert, now hotels, restaurants, plazas and houses have sprung up in a variety of locales.
For years, residents on both the east and west sides of town have expressed interest in seeing more stores and [...]

It’s a tale of two cities that share the same valley bordered by mountain vistas. The bigger of the two has lured shoppers for decades from the other side of the city limits generally along Commonwealth and Esplanade avenues.
Hemet Interim City Manager Len Wood noted in his budget message that from 2006 to 2007, sales [...]

Employees of the newest Wal-Mart in the metro region, located in Heartland Crossing in Camby, are stocking shelves and getting ready to open the doors Wednesday morning.
A brief opening ceremony is planned at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, when Wal-Mart will announce gifts totaling $18,000 to 10 local charities and civic organizations. The store previously made a [...]

Two Bridgewater women face a string of criminal charges after they allegedly stole a prescription pad from a doctor’s office and attempted to get drugs at several pharmacies.
Police arrested the pair on June 4, one day after the pad went missing from a Bridgewater physician’s office.
A 46-year-old woman, whose identity has not been released because [...]

Two years after she avoided jail time for smothering her 2-month-old baby during a drug-induced haze, Melanie Hayward, 25, stabbed a Wal-Mart security guard with a pen when he tried to stop her from using stolen credit cards, according to deputies.
Hayward, who is listed as a prostitute in police records, is charged with aggravated battery, [...]