Brown Shoe Company Incorporated

Reports: Retail sales for April, 7:30 a.m.; Business inventories for March, 9 a.m. Local earnings: CTI Industries Corp. Other major earnings: Brown Shoe Co., New York & Co., Salvatore Ferragamo SpA, Shoe Carnival Inc.

The Fiat brand has just introduced the 2012 Fiat 500 "Pink Ribbon." With each sale of this limited edition model, Fiat will donate $1,000 to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). "Pink Ribbon" models will be in studios (showrooms) in October, just...

Lawmakers are working to repeal a shoe tax on all imported shoes. The tax was meant to protect shoe manufacturers in the United States, but with 99 percent of shoes being imported, lawmakers consider the tax unfair The shoe tax has been in place since...

Jim and Jane Maust of Somerset are announcing the engagement of their daughter, Jessica Nicole Maust, Pottstown, to Sean Linville, Pottstown, son of Kathleen Travis of West Point and the late Richard Linville. Miss Maust is a 2003 graduate of Somerset...

Diane C. Manley, 56, of Hagerstown, Md., died Friday, May 20, 2011, at her sister’s home surrounded by her loving family  after a long and courageous battle with cancer. She was born on Feb. 1, 1955, to the late Donald Mark Manley and Marion Anne...

News story The Supreme Court opened the door to a new form of state support for religious schools, upholding special tax credits in Arizona for those who give money to church schools.... Justice Anthony M. Kennedy (part of the 5-4......

A special thanks this morning to fitness guru Jack LaLanne, who died Sunday at age 96. When LaLanne sprang into the national consciousness with a TV show aimed at housewives in the 1950s, his message was about keeping fit, but......

Monday: -- July existing-home sales -- Earnings: Harmony Gold Mining Co. Tuesday: -- Federal Reserve meeting minutes -- August consumer confidence -- Earnings: Aruba Networks Inc.; Borders Group Inc.; Corinthian Colleges Inc.; Micros Systems Inc.; Pike...