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• Business

  Park Service tears down historic Navy home at Pearl Harbor

  HONOLULU (AP) — The National Park Service said Thursday it demolished a historic home at Pearl Harbor without consulting historic preservation authorities as required.A contractor hired by the park service tore down the home as part of a project...

  By Audrey Mcavoy, Associated Press|2 days ago

• News

  Couple sues after town bans front-yard gardens

  MIAMI (AP) — For 17 years, a South Florida couple grew vegetables in a front-yard garden until a new town ordinance was passed limiting such gardens to backyards. Now, the couple is asking a judge to uproot the ban they claim violates their...

  By Curt Anderson, AP Legal Affairs Writer|3 days ago

• Oddities

  Girl laid to rest 145 years after first burial

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The body of a girl found last month inside a small metal casket still holding a rose was laid to rest 145 years after she was first buried under what now is a home in San Francisco.Dozens of community members, cemetery...

  |6 days ago

• Business

  Correction: Priciest Apartment story

  NEW YORK (AP) — In a story May 29 about Manhattan apartments costing $100 million and more, The Associated Press erroneously conflated the names of two skyscrapers being built on 57th Street. The Central Park Tower is being built at 225 W. 57th...

  |1 week, 4 days ago

• Entertainment

  Dick Van Dyke coming to hometown to restore home

  DANVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Dick Van Dyke plans to return this summer to the eastern Illinois town where he grew up to lead a fundraising drive aimed at saving his childhood home.Van Dyke announced Friday that he will make two fundraising appearances...

  |2 weeks ago

• News

  Wife: Man bitten by snake at store was flower shopping

  DENVER, N.C. (AP) — The wife of a North Carolina man bitten by a poisonous snake at a home improvement store says her husband was shopping for flowers to surprise her when he was stricken.The woman, who asked that her last name not be used, told...

  |3 weeks, 2 days ago

• News

  Copperhead snake bites customer at home improvement store

  DENVER, N.C. (AP) — A poisonous snake in a tree has bitten a customer at a home improvement store in North Carolina.A spokeswoman for Lowe's Companies Inc. said in an email Tuesday that a customer was bitten in the outdoor lawn and garden center...

  |3 weeks, 4 days ago

• Business

  Agrihoods take root: a housing trend rooted in agriculture

  DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — "How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm?" asks the old song. The answer may be: Build them an agrihood.Feeding off the continuing interest in eating fresh, local food, developers are ditching golf courses and designing...

  By Michelle Locke, Associated Press|3 weeks, 4 days ago

• Home and Garden

  Morris: Bees in the house could spell trouble

  DEAR JOAN: Late afternoon on May 5, we noticed a group of about 20 lethargic bees inside on the living room windowsill and window pane. Sadly, yet not wanting them scattering through the house, I sprayed the group on the sill with 409 (cleanser) and swatted the ones on the pane.

  By Joan Morris [email protected]|3 weeks, 5 days ago

• Home and Garden

  Morris: How to fight off killer bees invading East Bay

  Africanized bees, known popularly as killer bees, were first seen in the Bay Area last fall when a colony was identified in Lafayette. Up until this week, there had been no reports of problems with the bees, but on Friday, a beekeeper and a postal worker were stung, and there were unconfirmed reports of two dogs being killed.

  By Joan Morris [email protected]|3 weeks, 6 days ago