Carphone Warehouse says that it is to close all of its 11 Best Buy stores across the UK, putting 1,100 jobs at risk.

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Carphone to shut Best Buy shops

Starkly different portrayals of Maryland Sen. Ulysses Currie’s relationship with a local grocery chain were presented to jurors Tuesday as they began weighing federal bribery and extortion charges against the 74-year-old legislator in a federal courtroom in Baltimore. A prosecutor used her opening statement to walk jurors through a series of instances in which she said Currie (D-Prince George’s) conspired with two corporate executives to provide government favors to Shoppers Food Warehouse for more than five years without disclosing $245,000 in payments. Read full article > >

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Lawyers open bribery, extortion trial of Md. Sen. Currie