NEW YORK — Bank stocks turbocharged a rally across the financial markets Tuesday, and all three major stock indexes posted their biggest gains of the year.
ROME — The body of a Powell woman missing in Tuscany for three days was found Wednesday beside a busy roadway in what appears to be a hit-and-run accident, Italian police said. Carabinieri Col. Antonio Frassinetto told a news conference that the body of Allison Owens, 23, of Powell, was found in a canal beside the heavily trafficked road in San Giovanni Valdarno.
SAN FRANCISCO — Steve Jobs, the mind behind the iPhone, iPad and other devices that turned Apple Inc. into one of the world’s most powerful companies, resigned as the company’s CEO on Wednesday, saying he can no longer handle the job. The move appears to be the result of an unspecified medical condition for which he took an indefinite leave from his post in January. Apple’s chief operating officer, Tim Cook, has been named CEO.
Adam Wasielewski was, as his mother Marcia put it, “A boy who simply loved life.”
Trader Joe’s, the specialty grocery chain, might not have the cheapest toilet paper or the most varieties of ketchup, but it hooks customers with mango butter, chocolate-covered pomegranate seeds and cilantro-and-jalapeno hummus. These goodies aren’t on most grocery lists, but they’re eye-catching enough to tempt shoppers into an impulse buy. At a time when families are watching dollars and the Web makes discount-hunting easy, unexpected treasures are an increasingly important strategy for stores.
COLUMBUS — A former Ohio State University student struggling to make the transition from the military to college life emailed a bomb threat to the FBI the day he was scheduled to take an exam, the FBI said Monday at a court hearing.