Business

Dillons stores among Kroger sites cited in Clean Air Act violations

TOPEKA — The Kroger Co., which operates Dillons stores in Kansas, will pay a $2.5 million penalty for failing to properly manage refrigerant chemicals used in its 2,700 stores, in violation of the Clean Air Act. Kroger failed to properly use ozone-depleting refrigerants at some of its ...

North America’s largest commuter rail system shuts down as workers strike

NEW YORK (AP) — The Long Island Rail Road, North America's largest commuter rail system, was shut down Saturday after unionized workers went on strike for the first time in three decades. The railroad, which serves New York City and its eastern suburbs, ceased operations just after midnight ...

Walmart and Amazon race to win over rural America with speedier deliveries

PEA RIDGE, Ark. (AP) — Walmart and Amazon are racing to speed up online order deliveries in rural areas of the U.S., a rich source of untapped sales that major retailers long wrote off as too sparsely inhabited, too remote or too impoverished to serve profitably. Walmart has a running start ...