The Daily Reporter is proud to have served as Franklin County’s daily law journal since 1896 and it is with sincere regret that we announce our closure. This, the Dec. 12, 2025, newspaper, will be our final issue. For years, newspapers all over the country have been greatly impacted by the rise of the internet [...]
Cracker Barrel posted lower-than-expected sales in its fiscal first quarter and trimmed its revenue forecast for the year as it continued to feel the fallout from a botched plan to revamp its logo and restaurants. The Lebanon, Tenn.-based restaurant chain earlier this week said its revenue fell 5.7 percent to $797.2 million in the three [...]
Paramount Skydance’s takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery places CNN and its sister cable networks squarely back into what is expected to be an extended period of management limbo. There was some relief at CNN with last week’s announcement that Netflix was buying Warner’s studio and streaming businesses, since the cable network would not be [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Food and Drug Administration officials have opened a safety review of two injectable drugs used to protect babies and toddlers from RSV, the respiratory virus that sends thousands of children to the hospital each year. The long-acting drugs from Merck and Sanofi are not vaccines, but the federal government review comes as [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week after Republicans said that they had united around a plan, for now, that would allow COVID-era health-care subsidies to expire. Both the Republican plan, which would replace the subsidies with new savings accounts, and a Democratic bill to extend [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump earlier this week announced a $12 billion farm aid package — a boost to farmers who have struggled to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs after the president raised tariffs on China as part of a broader change in trade policy. He unveiled the plan at [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of job openings across the country barely budged in October, coming in at 7.7 million with ongoing uncertainty over the direction of the American economy. The Labor Department this week reported that employers posted 7.67 million vacancies in October, close to September’s 7.66 million. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover [...]
PepsiCo plans to cut prices and eliminate some of its products under a deal with an activist investor announced this week. The Purchase, N.Y.-based company, which makes Cheetos, Tostitos and other Frito-Lay products as well as beverages, said it will cut nearly 20 percent of its product offerings by early next year. PepsiCo said it [...]
Boeing earlier this week said it has completed a $4.7 billion purchase of key supplier Spirit AeroSystems, which builds fuselages for the giant aerospace company’s 737 Max jetliners, including an Alaska Airlines aircraft that suffered a door-panel blowout last year. The deal, in the works for more than a year, also brings Boeing’s largest provider [...]
The nation’s freight railroad companies are going to be able to try relying more on technology and inspect their tracks in person less often after the federal government last week approved their waiver request. The Association of American Railroads trade group asked for the relief from inspection requirements that were written in 1971 because railroad [...]