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Mamie’s Cafe and Bakery expands with franchise location in Bedford

BEDFORD — Mamie’s Cafe and Bakery has expanded with its first franchise slated to open this summer at 113 West Pitt St., Bedford. Taylor Wahl, 24, signed on this week with Mamie’s owner and founder Karen Leidy Wyland to operate the franchise in her historic downtown building that once housed the Hurry Sundown bar. Wahl purchased the 220-year-old building while still a junior at Saint Vincent College. Her sewing shop, Twila’s, occupies a portion of the building’s ground floor, while Mamie’s will use the space connected with the commercial kitchen already in place. Wyland ...

Devices, accounts need cleaning

If the spring season has brought an urge to scrub your living space from top to bottom, why not clear out the digital detritus cluttering your electronic devices and online accounts at the same time? Carrying out the digital equivalent of spring cleaning a home isn’t just an opportunity to tidy up our online lives. Eliminating dust bunnies like dormant accounts and forgotten files can help protect personal data, according to cybersecurity experts. “Clutter is fuel for scammers. Old accounts, exposed data and forgotten apps give them more ways in,” Michael Sherwood, a product ...

UK regulator: X promises terrorism, hate crackdown

LONDON — Elon Musk’s social media platform X has pledged to crack down on hate and terrorist content in Britain, the country’s media regulator said Friday. Ofcom said X’s public commitments include restricting access in the U.K. to accounts operated by or on behalf of terrorist groups that the country has banned. The platform also promised to review suspected illegal terrorist and hate content within 24 hours on average, and to assess 85% of the material no more than 48 hours after users have flagged it, officials said. A spokesperson for X in the U.K. did not respond to a ...

Markets drop worldwide as oil prices rattle bond market

NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market fell from its records Friday and joined a worldwide drop for stocks after higher oil prices sent a shiver through the bond market. Stocks that had been caught up in the euphoria around artificial-intelligence technology led the way lower. The S&P 500 fell 1.2% from its all-time high set the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 537 points, or 1.1%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 1.5% from its own record. Technology stocks tumbled in a sharp turnaround from their meteoric rises for much of the year, which had carried markets worldwide ...

Brackney Leather closing after 40 years in Altoona

A leather goods store that has been in Altoona for 40 years is closing its doors. The last day of business for Brackney Leather in Plank Road Commons will be Memorial Day, May 25. The retail store is closing because the manager who ran the business for 34 years (Kathy Albarano) passed away ...