Lindsay, like many towns along the citrus belt, is still recovering from the freeze, which obliterated $800 million in citrus statewide, $418 million here in Tulare County. This year, that aroma is welcome more so than in years past, considering that next year's crop was an uncertainty after the devastating freeze of January. For Lindsay residents, the aroma signals the beginning of the Orange Blossom Festival, which since 1932 has marked the first appearance of the blooms that will later...

warehouse By PAT KINNEY, Courier Business Editor CEDAR FALLS --- Target corp. has announced plans to build an approximately 400,000-square-foot cold-storage perishable grocery distribution warehouse adjacent to its massive 1.4 million-square-foot Target Distribution Center in the Cedar Falls Industrial Park. warehouse By PAT KINNEY, Courier Business Editor CEDAR FALLS --- Target corp. has announced plans to build an approximately 400,000-square-foot cold-storage perishable grocery...

Two years after filing for bankruptcy protection, O'Sullivan Industries is closing its Lamar plant, leaving 735 people to look for jobs and the southwest Missouri town with 1 million square feet of manufacturing space to fill. The Coca-Cola co., the world's largest beverage maker, reported Tuesday a 14 percent jump in first-quarter profit on a double-digit rise in sales despite problems in its North America unit. The board of directors that will govern Delta Air Lines inc. after it exits...

Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and expected to be released later this month - puts the national spotlight on one of the state's most affluent counties. Haley Barbour signed into law this week is aimed at promoting healthier lifestyles in one of the most obese states in the nation. Officials say, as of right now, they only have enough volunteers to staff 10 percent of those shelters. There are drugs to treat the symptoms, but none proven to treat the cause of the disease. Mississippi County...

The head of the engineer science and mechanics department says two professors were among the 32 people gunned down by a lone gunman, who then took his own life. Twenty-year-old Alec Calhoun says he was in a mechanics class on the second floor when he and his classmates heard a thunderous sound in the room next door. He said he told them that he and the first lady, along with many across the nation, are praying for the victims and others "devastated by this terrible tragedy. Puri says...