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Briefcase: Giant Company supporting healthier choices

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CARLISLE As families across the East Coast head back to school, The Giant Company and Partnership for a Healthier America are teaming up to make the healthier choice the easier choice, turning everyday grocery runs into support for neighbors facing hunger. From Aug. 21 through Sept. 3, Giant and Martin’s customers can save on participating GOOD GOOD better-for-you products and, with each qualifying purchase, help fund healthy food access for families in need. Customers who spend $10 on participating GOOD GOOD products at Giant and Martin’s stores will save $5 at checkout. With ...

Ticker: Bond market swings back to worries

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The relief that swept the bond market just a day earlier disappeared as oil prices, worries about high inflation and the U.S. government’s debt kept rising. That helped knock the U.S. stock market to its worst loss in three weeks on Thursday. The S&P 500 fell 0.9% for a fourth loss in the five days since setting its record last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.3%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 1%. Treasury yields climbed after the price of Brent crude rose 2.4% following President Donald Trump’s latest threat to Iran. Walmart reports slowest sales growth in 6 ...

Holy Name to host bodybuilding priest

Religion

A bodybuilding priest is coming to Holy Name Catholic Church at 7 p.m. on Sept. 21 to speak about caring for the mind, body and spirit. Father Rafael Capo of Miami, Florida, trains six days a week and bench presses 315 pounds, combining exercise with prayer. With more than 120,000 Instagram ...

Alfalfa sprouts linked to illnesses

Local Business

NEW YORK — Minnesota health officials are warning consumers not to eat certain brands of alfalfa sprouts that have been tied to an unusual outbreak involving different disease-causing bacteria. Officials say 23 people in Minnesota have become ill with either E. coli or salmonella infections, with two of them hospitalized. Three had salmonella, and one of them also had a strain of E. coli bacteria called STEC O168:H8. Seven other people were sickened with a different version of E. coli, called STEC O103:H25. Thirteen more had yet another strain, STEC O26:H11. Wisconsin investigators ...

Meta defends safety efforts

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Meta insists it has a long history of protecting its youngest customers as it defends itself against a swath of lawsuits alleging its social media empire harms children. In the latest such instance, the social media giant is fighting allegations in a California federal court that it ...

Spiritual Notes

Religion

Gospel study starts Sept. 9 The gospel according to Mark will be the focus of an 8-week study that begins Wednesday, Sept. 9, at Christ Community UMC, 5715 Roselawn Ave., Altoona. To register, contact Pastor Rich Hanlon at RHANLON@SUSUMC.ORG. Participants will have the opportunity to consider how God is at work in their life while exploring the shortest, most action-packed gospel account in the Bible. Bring a Bible and a pencil or pen. Widow Warriors group to start A new group is forming to encourage and support widows as they move from grief toward renewed purpose, confidence in ...