Posts Tagged Consumer products and services

Second restaurant named for Rodgers, Braun to open

GLENDALE, Wis. (AP) — A Brookfield restaurant named for Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun is opening a second location.

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Navajo Nation opens flagship casino in Arizona

This image released by the Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise shows the Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort near Flagstaff, Ariz. The casino is the Navajo Nation’s largest and the first in Arizona.  A grand opening is scheduled Friday, May 24, 2013.  The 267,000 square-foot building sits across the interstate from an old trading post and rest stop known for the giant twin arrows that point toward the ground.  The tribe has three other casinos in New Mexico.  (AP Photo/Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise, Dave Siegel)

TWIN ARROWS, Ariz. (AP) — New sets of twin arrows are beckoning travelers on Interstate 40 in northern Arizona.

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What do we eat? New food map will tell us

In this photo taken April 3, 2013, nutrition scholar Prof. Barry Popkin, who heads the University of North Carolina Food Research Program, poses for a photo in his Chapel Hill, N.C., office. Popkin and researchers he leads are creating a gargantuan map of what foods Americans are purchasing in stores and eating, something he calls "mapping the food genome." "The country needs something like this, given all of the questions about our food supply," he says. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought.

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Small Fla. city anxious to learn jackpot winner

A vehicle passes the front of the Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., Sunday, May 19, 2013. The highest Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $590.5 million was sold recently at this Publix supermarket. (AP Photo/Scott Iskowitz)

ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. (AP) — It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million.

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$590M-plus Powerball: 1 winning ticket sold in Fla

A woman prepares to choose her numbers on a lottery ticket Saturday, May 18, 2013, in the Chinatown district in Oakland, Calif. A record Powerball jackpot has climbed to $600 million, and lottery officials speculated the jackpot would continue to soar in the run-up to Saturday’s drawing. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. (AP) — Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history.

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