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  • A new advocacy group has bought a full-page ad in Monday's editions of USA Today, criticizing America's largest retailer for destroying American jobs by purchasing most of its products from China. A watch group called Wal-Mart Watch launched the operation.
  • By Scott HarveySulphur Springs – An investigating is underway into the robbery and assault of a man in the Sulphur Springs Walmart parking lot. Reports…
  • The 21-year-old white man who is suspected of gunning down 22 people at a busy Walmart in August has pleaded not guilty. He had previously confessed to the killings, according to police documents.
  • A bid by Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton to purchase the 1875 Thomas Eakins painting "The Gross Clinic" is causing an outcry in Philadelphia, where many consider it part of the city's cultural landscape. Walton, ranked by Forbes as the world's ninth-richest person, is building a museum of American art in Bentonville, Ark.
  • Someone — anonymously — went into two Wal-Mart and paid more than $100,000 — moving everything off layaway. Meaning, gifts some customers were trying to buy, are now theirs.
  • Across the country, communities are turning abandoned big-box stores like Kmart and Wal-Mart into churches, schools and libraries. Julia Christensen, an artist and professor, visited many of these sprawling structures to see how they are being repurposed.
  • Corporate tax credits improved its profits, but those were tempered by the payroll tax increase on its customers.
  • Corporate Executives on Wednesday told thousands of employees that stores will be warmer. Also, a human DJ will now pick the music that is heard throughout the store.
  • Commerce Mayor John Ballotti says the city will soon be able to complete the paving of Monroe Street between Live Oak and Bonham. The mayor says work is…
  • Focus groups with swing, female voters in Ohio and Arizona reveal that negative attitudes saturate a critical bloc of voters this year.
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