Smart Spending: Wedding gifts on a budget (San Francisco Chronicle)

Spring has sprung and so have the wedding invitations. They'll be joyous events, but finding the perfect gifts to bring along can be stressful during these tough economic times. Here are a few ways to cope if a crystal sugar bowl or a setting of designer... Wedding - Weddings - Shopping - Invitations and Announcements - Business and Economy


Official Box Art for Palit's GeForce GTX 480, 470 (Tom's Hardware)

Feast your eyes on the packaging for the upcoming Nvidia Fermi-based video cards! Nvidia - GeForce - GeForce GTX 480 - Shopping - Gifts


Shopping local (The Norwood Post)

With weather, gas, financial constraints and time running short, local holiday gift options might be a wise way to go this year. This Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 12 and 13, another holiday bazaar will inhabit the Norwood Community Center.


'Born to shop!' Born last month at the Great Mall in Milipitas, baby gets her own celebration (San Jose Mercury News)

Baby born at the Great Mall returns for her one-month birthday party amid hoopla, gifts, speeches, proud parents, fawning grandmothers, a gaggle of reporters and photographers, and passersby issuing the sweetest of compliments for the newborn; baby snoozes through most of it.


Gifts from above: The Lake Elmo Inn's tradition of exchanging a drink for an ornament (Stillwater Gazette)

The Lake Elmo Inn's Christmas trees begin every year naked. The lonely twinkle lights that adorn their bare branches do little to help them stand out against the holiday decorations that will embellish the remainder of the restaurant once the season begins.


Dixon's coats go on sale online (Baltimore Sun)

They were surrendered as part of deal with prosecutors The coats, one fashioned from lustrous mink, the other from whorls of sable-colored Persian lamb, rest on hangers from a high-end furrier. These furs have a remarkable past: Gifts to former Mayor Sheila Dixon from a developer and then boyfriend. In a first for the prosecutor's office, seized items — all once owned by Dixon — are being put up ...


Mother's Day: a night with Simon Cowell and Boeing 747 among bizarre gift searches (Daily Telegraph)

People are turning to the internet to search for unorthodox Mother's Day presents including "a night with Simon Cowell" and a Boeing 747, an online shopping website has said.


Pay your Parking Ticket With a Toy (Telluride Daily Planet)

Nothing sours an afternoon of holiday shopping more than returning to your car and finding that foreboding neon envelop tucked menacingly under the windshield wiper of your snow-laden car. Parking tickets.


Explosion, fire destroys east Greeley home (Greeley Tribune)

While David Roth was out shopping for his son's birthday gift Wednesday, he lost everything he owned. "A neighbor called us while we were in the store," Roth said as he stood before a pile of burned rubble that was once his home. "They said the house was gone." The fire, which began about 2 p.m. Wednesday, was located in the Woodlands East Mobile Home Park, 2280 1st Ave. in east Greeley. Roth ...


Lines wrap around block as stores open in new mall (New York Post)

Queens residents packed into the Rego Center shopping complex last week, forming lines that snaked around the Kohl's and Century 21 stores shoppers praised for bringing hundreds of jobs to the borough.“All these jobs are important in this economy,” said Tamikka Jones, 38, of Far Rockaway. “There will...