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The Portland Timbers are expected on Tuesday to name John Spencer head coach for the team's inaugural season of Major League Soccer, according to a report in The Oregonian.
The Business Journal reported last December that Spencer was the leading candidate for the job.
The team starts MLS play next year.
Spencer, a 39-year-old native of Glasgow, Scotland, […]

McDonald’s smoothie sampling event July 22-24 has been called off due to unprecedented demand.
McDonald’s said it will review the possibility of rescheduling at a later date.
“The McCafé Real Fruit Smoothies are an absolute hit with our customers and we’re experiencing unprecedented demand for this delicious new choice on our menu,” said Neil Golden, Chief Marketing […]

The Metropolitan Transit Authority plans to purchase the shuttered Peterbilt Motors Co. site in Madison in order to replace operations on Nestor Street that suffered $10 million in flood damage. The 66-acre site includes a 400,000-square-foot plant.
Authority CEO Paul Ballard said Seattle-based Paccar, Peterbilt’s parent company, has requested $21 million for the property, but that […]

At Upper St. Clair High School, the status quo is never good enough.
“We are dissatisfied at where we are at,” said Principal Michael Ghilani. “We are always trying to do better. No matter what awards we win, what we achieve, I think we are always trying to get better.”
It’s this attitude that has helped to […]

Private-sector employers continued to cut jobs in March, highlighting the challenges still facing the nation’s job market, according to a report released Wednesday.
Automatic Data Processing, which processes paychecks for one in every six U.S. employees, said private-sector employers cut payrolls by 23,000 jobs in March, marking the smallest monthly decline since February 2008.
The […]

Is a $150 pair of jeans a better deal than a $50 pair? Is a $60-per-month gym membership worth it? Should you spend $20 more for a better coffee maker?
The answer is, of course, that it depends. One way to evaluate a purchase is to estimate its cost per use, rather than […]

The foreclosure sale of the Denver Ritz-Carlton hotel’s unsold condos and Forza athletic club space has been postponed again, according to City and County of Denver foreclosure records.
The sale has previously been scheduled for Oct. 1 and Nov. 12 of last year and, most recently, for Feb. 11, foreclosure records said. It’s now slated for […]

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Hirohide Yamaguchi defended the central bank’s self-imposed limit on bond purchases after a lawmaker suggested it could buy more debt to fight deflation.
“This isn’t just something we uphold to keep our backyard tidy,” Yamaguchi told parliament in Tokyo today. “Should people mistakenly start to think we are financing […]

Denver Broncos principal owner Pat Bowlen, hotel-industry leader Walter Isenberg and architect Curtis Fentress will be inducted into Denver's Tourism Industry Hall of Fame, the Visit Denver convention and visitors bureau announced Tuesday.
The hall of fame is considered the highest award for Denver’s travel industry. The trio to be inducted at a March 4 ceremony […]

Malaysia’s economy shrank the least in three quarters as government stimulus boosted consumption and the global recession eased, strengthening an Asian recovery.
Gross domestic product contracted 1.2 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, after declining 3.9 percent in the previous three months, the central bank said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. That […]