A Florida man lit the mother of his 4-year-old son on fire early Monday, then chased her with a knife before she found refuge inside a convenience store, police said.
Trayvon Martin walked into a 7-Eleven in Sanford, Florida, grabbing a bag of Skittles and a can of AriZona iced tea. The hood from his dark gray sweatshirt over his head, he walked up to the counter, reached deep into his pants' pockets, paid the clerk, then walked out.
They are public school employees who have been holding down multiple jobs. Now that they've won tens of millions of dollars in a historic lottery, they could stop. But instead, the self-declared "Three Amigos," who share a winning Mega Millions ticket, plan to keep their fortune a secret -- and keep working.
updated: Tue Apr 03 2012 11:44:00
A Maryland lottery official announces a winning ticket was sold at a 7-11 in Baltimore County.
As we travel down the road toward the 20-kilometer (12-mile) exclusion zone, the entryway is blocked by half a dozen police officers and a large sign flashing red lights. The sign reads: "Keep out. Don't enter."
In his 60 years, Arnold Blaine has known only two people who've owned a gun: one a hunter, the other a nightclub owner.
updated: Sat Nov 26 2011 16:20:00
Windsor, Ontario, known for its low homicide rate., reported its first homicide in 26 months.
Who's up for "Moby Dick" and a Slurpee?
This summer Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has wrestled with one of his biggest challenges since taking office five years ago.
This week in Germantown, Maryland, it took less than a minute for a flash mob of teenagers to descend on a 7-Eleven, ransack shelves and make off with hundreds of dollars worth of stuff.
In the past, people seemed to require a massive "cue" to form a mob. The New York blackouts of the summer of 1977 resulted in citywide looting, not just because alarm systems were down, but because a whole lot of hot, angry, frustrated people had an excuse to act en masse. Likewise, the verdict on the Rodney King trial served as a spark, synchronizing simultaneous explosions of mob behavior in a dozen North American cities.
updated: Fri Aug 19 2011 12:37:00
It's another "flash mob" robbery, but this time there's a twist. WUSA's Andrea McCarren reports.
A "flash mob" believed to have been organized on the Internet robbed a Maryland convenience store in less than a minute, police said Tuesday, and now authorities are using the same tool to identify participants in the crime.
Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg attend the screening of the J.J. Abrams film in L.A.
A legislative effort to delay and study a new law capping the swipe fees that retailers pay is picking up steam in Congress.
Gather 'round, gold standard enthusiasts.
7-Eleven is sending a clear message: We're not just Slurpees and cheap coffee anymore and we've taken over the world.
"They're weeping as though they've just lost the love of their life," the actress says of the women on the show
It's not every day that Main Street gets a slam dunk on Wall Street. But the Federal Reserve's proposed cap on "swipe fees" could significantly reduce small businesses' costs while cutting into big credit card company's profits.
When President Obama commented that the Republicans were standing around drinking Slurpees while the Democrats were busy creating real change in Washington, it caused quite a storm. Now that he's sitting down with the new Republican leadership this week, the so-called "Slurpee Summit" is the talk of the nation.
updated: Tue Nov 16 2010 10:39:00
Pete Dominick explores Washington's recent talk of a "Slurpee Summit" with CNN's John King.
TALLADEGA, Ala. -- With the 2010 NASCAR season winding down, many top teams are already looking ahead to next season. In years past, that meant offseason testing, but NASCAR banned that two years ago as a cost-saving measure, and is only lifting it at Daytona in mid-December and mid-January because of a recent repaving job there. But is it time to ease the moratorium even more than that or do away with it for good? Drivers and owners shared their thoughts on that subject with SI.com last week.
The late days of a Grand Slam tournament are, of course, money time. They tell us who will be pro tennis' next trendsetter or conversation-starter, who will matter in the long run, who will be remembered as great. The late days are when one-namers -- all those Rogers and Rafas and Marias and Kims -- are created, when the faces hawking next year's rackets and outfits first come into focus, when the sport most seems like a tiny club of special beings. The late days are for royalty. They're what history remembers.
Retailers are poised for a major victory in the Wall Street reform bill currently pending in Congress. The Senate adopted an amendment late Thursday that will slap sharp restrictions on the fees issuers levy every time a buyer pays with a debit card.
The battle over shelf space in the beer industry is about to heat up with the entrance of a new brand to the refrigerators at 7-Eleven. And it's the nearly 6,000-strong convenience store chain that is making the private label brew, called "Game Day."
A magnitude-4.4 earthquake rattled residents of southern California early Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Though 2008 was wrought with layoffs and economic struggles, the New Year means rejuvenated hope for job seekers.
We've reviewed several of Navigon's portable navigation devices, and it always seems to be the same story: great features, affordable price, but always coming up short in performance.
In a new video game for cell phones set to launch in Japan, the point is simple: Roaming players must point their handsets in the right direction to score.
When hackers infiltrated Citibank ATMs at 7-Eleven stores, they revived the fear of everyone looking to get out a few bucks for a Slurpee - is using this machine safe?
Convenience stores have long been a place to pick up beer and pork rinds. Earlier this month Tesco launched a $2 billion, five-year plan to change that. The British retailing giant just opened the first gourmet mini-supermarket in Hemet, Calif. Dozens more of these Fresh & Easys are scheduled to open over the next three months throughout California and the Southwest. Analysts think Tesco could grow their ranks to more than 1,000 in the next five years.
Sounds like something got lost in translation when Bill Murray was approached by police in Stockholm while driving a golf cart.
After an online vote, the town of Springfield, Vt. - population 9,300 - has earned the right to host the world premiere of The Simpsons Movie on July 21, leaving 13 other Springfields across the U.S. saying, "D'oh!"
Video rental chain Blockbuster Inc. Monday named former 7-Eleven Chief Executive James Keyes as its chairman and CEO, replacing John Antioco, who said he would leave after a dispute with the board over his pay package.
For nearly a decade, cell phone carriers have dreamed of the day when consumers can shop using their handhelds, not their wallets. One touch of the dial pad and the holiday scarf for Mom is sold.
Who can remember all the way back to last summer, when we had daylight-saving-time, baseball and $3 a gallon gasoline prices?
The U.S. grocery business hardly seems ripe for new entrants. After all, the $600 billion industry is already ultracompetitive, with stores like Whole Foods and Trader Joe's dominating the premium ...
Overseas markets have been hot -- and Americans have noticed. Last year, for the first time ever, investors put more money into foreign-stock funds than into domestic ones, according to the Investm...
It's morning, and your cell phone directs you to a nearby Starbucks--not just for a mocha, but also for a free vial of magic potion. Spotting a friend in line, you strike him down with your virtual...
It's morning, and your cell phone directs you to a nearby Starbucks--not just for a mocha, but also for a free vial of magic potion. Spotting a friend in line, you strike him down with your virtual scepter. Three thousand points to you.
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 20) -GigaOm and Venkatesh note that Google seems to be testing it's click-to-call program, which connects web surfers and advertisers by phone. Searching for "hotels, New York," Venkatesh got an ad with a little green phone icon. Clicking on the icon prompted him to enter his phone number, which Google says it will use to connect a regular telephone call from the advertiser to the customer (without revealing the customer's number to the advertiser). AOL, a unit of Time Warner, started running its own pay-per-call ad program last year. The advantage of these ads: Advertisers pay Internet outfits much higher fees for pay-per-call ads than for the traditional pay-per-click ads, because they are more likely to lead to sales. But Venkatesh feels Google's technology is lacking. Clicking on the ads, he noted, did not yet yield any further information about the advertiser, unlike in AOL's system, which sends surfers to a "landing page" that gives surfers details about the business they're ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 20) -GigaOm and Venkatesh note that Google seems to be testing it's click-to-call program, which connects web surfers and advertisers by phone. Searching for "hotels, New York," Venkatesh got an ad with a little green phone icon. Clicking on the icon prompted him to enter his phone number, which Google says it will use to connect a regular telephone call from the advertiser to the customer (without revealing the customer's number to the advertiser). AOL, a unit of Time Warner, started running its own pay-per-call ad program last year. The advantage of these ads: Advertisers pay Internet outfits much higher fees for pay-per-call ads than for the traditional pay-per-click ads, because they are more likely to lead to sales. But Venkatesh feels Google's technology is lacking. Clicking on the ads, he noted, did not yet yield any further information about the advertiser, unlike in AOL's system, which sends surfers to a "landing page" that gives surfers details about the business they're
If you're hoping to turn heads for all the right reasons with your fashion choices, take a note from Daniel Vosovic.
Seven years ago, on a dare from a friend, journalist Norah Vincent glued on a fake goatee, donned a baggy flannel shirt, and set out in New York City for her drag debut. She returned home a few hours later with this blazing insight: Men no longer checked her out.
For many, now is the time to look back and judge whether or not the past 12 months have been fruitful.
Good product design can boost sales, and a small outfit called Metaphase has the track record to prove it.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Chase wants you to 'Blink' when buying a latte. MasterCard wants you to 'Tap and Go' your double cheeseburger. American Express will let you ExpressPay for just about anything.
It's tough persuading consumers to buy a huge vat of mouthwash, especially when the bottle in question holds 2.1 liters of a product best known for its unpleasant taste. Last year, however, after P...
Thinking of giving a Gap gift card? That is soooo last season.
These days, companies from EarthLink to 7-Eleven all want to offer their own cell-phone services. But building one, on the networks of major carriers like Sprint, can cost as much as $300 million. ...
7-Eleven, the world's largest convenience store chain, has returned to Manhattan after a 23-year absence by opening a new store this week in the city that never sleeps.
It's been a tough stock-picking environment for investors so far this year. The major indexes all finished the first half of 2005 slightly in the red.
"SO BOARD SEATS ARE going begging," writes a reader named Rick, referring to the headline on my May 16 column about the tremendous turnover in corporate boardrooms these days. "Where do I apply?" A...
Frankly, I'm peeved at my cellphone. No, it's not that I still have any problem with how well, or where, it is willing to transmit my voice. But maybe because I caved in on that issue--I let it dec...
Tired of swiping your credit card over and over because the magnetic strip is worn? Help is on the way: cards that you wave, rather than swipe.
WANTED: OUTSIDE DIRECTORS. To start immediately. Audit experience a plus. Candidates should be prepared to spend at least 200 hours per year on board business and act as watchdog on behalf of the S...
People joke about the ubiquitous Starbucks on every street corner. But with nearly 6,000 stores nationwide, you really can't miss 7-Eleven.
McDonald's may soon be going upscale with its coffee, according to a report Monday.
There's something familiar about the place, with its muted orange-and-green color scheme. The aisles are wider, though, and the displays tonier. Chilling in the fridge is the house Chardonnay, not ...
Erin Kappen's baby son has already seen his first payday from her employer.
Your trusty neighborhood 7-Eleven may end up looking very different one of these days.
When Dereck Gurden pulls up at one of his customers' stores -- 7-Eleven, Buy N Save, or one of dozens of liquor marts and restaurants in the 800-square-mile territory he covers in California's Central Valley -- managers usually stop what they're doing and grab a notepad.
To date, the $1 billion breath-mint market has been dominated by big players like Pfizer's Listerine PocketPaks, Wrigley's Flash Strips, and Cadbury's Certs Cool Mint Drops. So why would 32-year-ol...
As the chairman and former CEO of Intel, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer, Andy Grove has been a brilliant business strategist. FORTUNE sat down with him recently at Intel head-quarte...
Ed Moneypenny, the 60-year-old chief financial officer of 7-Eleven, shares something important with Enron's Andy Fastow, Tyco's Mark Swartz, and WorldCom's Scott Sullivan--a job title. That, Moneyp...
Against all odds, karaoke and Hello Kitty have become familiar icons in U.S. pop culture. Now, San Francisco-based Viz Communications is betting that American readers will develop a taste for manga...
Are lowlifes messing with your highball? Francisco Guerra knows. His company's coasters and test strips can tell you whether your drink has been spiked with a "date-rape drug" like GHB. Just dribbl...
While most mobile phones hype extraneous features--play Pac-Man while on hold! Send a text message to your wife requesting a divorce!--Telespree, a San Francisco startup, is making a different call...
I had been yearning for a field of my own for a very long time--and here it was at the end of a rainbow. Not a 7-Eleven, not a McDonald's in sight.
What says American adolescence better than Slurpees? Try a menial job selling them. Now even teens and young adults from foreign lands can partake in these quintessential American experiences, than...
Last year Joseph Park, the 28-year-old CEO of Kozmo.com, bragged to Vanity Fair that if his one-hour video- and munchies-delivery company failed, he'd shrug off the loss as a useful anecdote for ge...
$99.95 Nokia's 918p prepaid cell phone is great for infrequent dialers who want to pay as they go, with no contract requirements. Check retailers such as Blockbuster and 7-Eleven.
1. The Japan Air Lines lounge in New York. It's ten in the morning. People are drinking Scotch and beer and smoking up a storm. Dudes!
The numbers are so ludicrous, my husband and I have tried to ignore them for a few years now. At least $425,000 to send our 6-year-old and 7-month-old to a private four-year college. Perhaps $2.9 m...
Remember how your wallet bulged back in 1993? A phone card, three credit cards and a bunch of receipts, ATM card, frequent-flier cards, company ID, Blue Cross, pictures of the kids, and, of course,...
THE UNITED STATES of America is a great place to go broke. Any business in this bighearted country, whether insolvent or not, is free to shortchange its creditors while enjoying the full favor and ...
Everybody knows the Persian Gulf war was good for stocks: the Dow Jones industrials are up 16.1% since Jan. 16. But the best wartime investment, up more than 7,000% in the past three months, isn't ...
Filing for protection from creditors under the bankruptcy code used to be akin to contracting a social disease. Not anymore. Says Thomas J. Salerno, a partner at Streich Lang, the Phoenix law firm ...
In planning their nuptials, Mark O'Brien and Andrea Debo were guided by little more than generous instincts that led to big spending right from the start (see photos). Here is some levelheaded advi...
To a true entrepreneur, franchising is a bit like a Pittsburgh Steeler playing touch football. He still does a lot of running, but the danger of getting hurt is much less. As is the prospect of glo...
You may think that risk goes with limited partnerships as fleas go with dogs. But if you pick carefully, one breed of real estate partnership offers the safety of blue-chip stocks plus the generous...
With the fear of AIDS growing by the day, this would not seem the time to be president of a company espousing free love. Yet Christie Hefner, apple-cheeked pornographer and daughter of Hugh Hefner,...
A lot of companies have been pushing for an extension of daylight saving time in hopes that the extra hour will produce more sales (FORTUNE, November 12, 1984). In May the Senate voted to begin day...
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