By Lorie Hailey
Associate Editor
In a long-awaited announcement, gourmet grocery Trader Joe’s said Wednesday it will open its first Lexington store at 8 a.m. June 29, reports the Lexington Herald Leader.
Construction is nearly complete on the grocery at 2326 Nicholasville Road, the former site of Joe’s Crab Shack.
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An agreement to process depleted uranium at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant will keep the facility open for another year and preserve 1,200 jobs, Kentucky lawmakers and federal energy officials announced Tuesday, reports the Louisville Courier Journal.
A series of arrangements involving the federal government and energy suppliers will provide a market for the uranium, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in a statement.
The Paducah plant had been scheduled to close at the end of this month.
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To address the mounting need for specialty services for patients over age 65, the University of Louisville Physicians-Geriatric Practice celebrated the opening Tuesday of a new clinical office in the UofL Health Care Outpatient Center (HCOC), 401 E. Chestnut St.
The 5,200 s.q. office on the first floor of the HCOC will replace the practice’s previous 900-square-foot location at Cardinal Station near the UofL main campus. The six geriatricians, four nurse practitioners and six staff moved to the new location during the week of May 7.
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About 200,000 more children across the USA will be considered at risk of lead poisoning under new guidelines released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reports USA TODAY.
The CDC cut in half the amount of lead that will lead to medical monitoring and other actions in children ages 1 to 5.
Now any child with more than 5 micrograms per deciliter of lead in their blood will be considered at risk, the paper says.
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The $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan Chase has renewed calls for stricter oversight of Wall Street banks, says the Associated Press.
Two years after Congress passed an overhaul of financial rules, many of those changes have yet to be finalized.
JPMorgan’s misstep gives advocates of stronger regulation an opening to argue that regulators should toughen their approach, the agency reports.
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The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that Skechers agreed to pay $40 million to settle charges it mislead consumers with claims that its toning sneakers would do everything from help them lose weight to make their “bottom half their better half” without ever going to a gym, reports USA TODAY.
The settlement, which will be used to provide refunds to buyers of Shape-ups and other Skechers toning sneakers, is believed to be the FTC’s largest ever involving consumer refunds, says David Vladeck, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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Macy’s reported a 38 percent increase in first-quarter profit as the department store chain continues to reap benefits from its move to tailor its fashions to local markets, USA TODAY repots.
The results reported Wednesday beat Wall Street’s expectations. But its shares fell as Macy’s failed to boost its earnings guidance.
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