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Best Buy employee Damon Huff brings out a display of GPS units Wednesday in preparation for the store's Black Friday post-Thanksgiving sale.

In an ironic twist, less expensive price points for popular toys put them on more parents' shopping lists -- even as predictions of sluggish sales led retailers to downsize holiday inventory orders.

DOES anyone understand Italian wine? I mean really understand the country and its wines in the same way as we do with France or New Zealand perhaps.

Just to rub it in to Scotland fans what they will be missing, even New Zealand, famous for the oval ball and not the round variety, have qualified for the World Cup finals.

The following is a profile of a local winemaking team, Brett Johnson and Joshua Stanton, both current students at the University of Cincinnati and their operation, Garden of Eden Wines.

Zadie, Nigella, Steig and, of course, the boy wizard. The decade has seen publishing phenomenons like no other, but which books, for better or worse, have summed up the noughties? by Brian MacArthur Published: 12:00PM GMT 13 Nov 2009 Never in the history of bookselling has there been such a phenomenon as Harry Potter; JK Rowling's series sold in ...

Woodstock incumbents swept the Nov. 3 city council election, but there will be a few new faces in Canton.

Suppose you could look at the pool in back of James Cameron's Malibu estate. Or admire the ornate garden at Haim Saban's Beverly Hills mansion.

Stephanie Hayes and Colleen Jenkins , Times Staff Writers In Print: Saturday, November 7, 2009 Cashier Jamesha Williams checks out customers Julie Mackley, left, and her mother-in-law, Dorothy Mackley, who bought several items on sale Friday at the Tyrone Square Mall Sears.

Read this piece from the Daily Beast . If you want honest wine, at all price points, you have to find them, they will not find you.

Smart consumers are taking advantage of various offers at retail to buy Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for less than half the recommended retail price.

Domain squatters better start breaking out copies of Rosetta Stone language learning software.

Last month: - , Months on list: 1 2. BOUNCE BACK By John Calipari with David Scott Kentucky's basketball coach on rebounding after setbacks.

The horses were my first clue that something was wrong. I thought it would be a piece of cake.

Iowa farmers said their corn and soybean fields came through the weekend freeze basically intact, but some damage was reported.

Bob Dylana s Christmas album is out: words to strike terror into the heart of some rock fans.

Do you like eating bugs? How about neon vomit? If you answered yes to one or both of those questions, this week's PlayStation Store update is for you! Headlining the weekly update is Critter Crunch , an adorable and addictive puzzle game that features beautiful, hand-drawn graphics and a variety of modes to keep puzzle addicts busy for some time.

Mariah Carey has announced that she will simulcast a recent show in Las Vegas to Internet-enabled phones and through iTunes, iClips and other digital platforms, on Saturday, October 10.

Now there's an app for that. Scientists, students, doctors and patients can now study the human body, evaluate medical problems and analyze three-dimensional images from their iPhone, using new applications created by University of Utah researchers, available from Apple Inc.'s iTunes App Store.

DENTON , Texas -- For the 14th year in a row, the University of North Texas has been named to the list of America's 100 Best College BuysA , compiled annually by Institutional Research & Evaluation, Inc .