Despite the success of online retailers, explosion of Internet downloads and high-profile closings of Virgin Megastores and Tower Records stores, bricks-and-mortar record stores aren’t all spinning toward oblivion.

An 80-year-old’s quick thinking foiled an armed robber’s attempt to hold up an Omaha liquor store. Store owner Floyd Westbrook was closing up his Sugar Hill Package Liquor on Wednesday when a man wearing a ski mask and holding a gun ran in and demanded mo

Microsoft Corp. plans a central market to sell programs for cell phones running the Windows Mobile system. It hews closely to the setup of Apple Inc.’s App Store for iPhones, with one notable exception _ Microsoft promises to communicate more openly with

Employees of a Pennsylvania pet store expecting a shipment of tropical fish and salt water got a man’s dead body instead.

Employees of a Philadelphia pet store expecting to get a shipment of tropical fish and salt water by air cargo ended up getting a human body instead. Mark Arabia owns the Pets Plus store in Northeast Philadelphia where the mix-up was discovered Tuesday.

Employees of a Philadelphia pet store expecting to get a shipment of tropical fish and salt water by air cargo ended up getting a human body instead. Mark Arabia owns the Pets Plus store in Northeast Philadelphia where the mix-up was discovered Tuesday.

Mike Hudek still longs for the 12:15 p.m. daily phone call with his sister. The short check-in at lunch was a time to recount the day’s events with his best friend, get advice and indulge in a mutual love of celebrity gossip.

A North Carolina man has been arrested in connection with the beating death and robbery of a Pennsylvania adult video store clerk more than 16 years ago _ thanks in part to DNA evidence found on a cigarette.

Retailers confirmed fears that the dismal holiday shopping season was the worst in decades when they reported December same-store sales _ a figure the retail sector relies on to periodically take its own temperature.

Macy’s says it will close 11 underperforming stores in 9 states _ affecting 960 employees _ after one of the weakest holiday seasons in years.