November 24, 2011

Still in his teens and living with his mother, a design star has found a clientele in Fairfield County, Conn.

It was the 1770s stone farmhouse in the Catskills that initially pulled in Fabio Chizzola. Then the 32-acre apple orchard became his passion.

When stores open for Black Friday sales late Thursday night, the differences between how affluent and more ordinary Americans shop in the uncertain economy will be on unusually vivid display.

Michael Woodford, the former chief executive of Olympus, plans to return for a board meeting, and he said he would offer to return to the company as president.

Workers at a Butterball plant in northwest Arkansas and at another factory nearby help produce about a third of the 43 million turkeys the nation will eat on Thanksgiving.