Southeast braces for Hanna as ferocious Hurricane Ike looms (The Pantagraph)
HOLDEN BEACH, N.C. -- Beach vacationers in the Carolinas prepared to pack up and head inland Friday as Tropical Storm Hanna cruised steadily toward the coast, while others decided to ride out the fast-moving storm that threatens to become a small hurricane before crashing ashore overnight. | Video | Interactive hurricane tracker | Central Illinois firefighters helping Gustav victims
SEI Great River Region sets up entrepreneurial Web site (Keokuk Daily Gate City)
The Southeast Iowa Great River Region Partnership recently announced the launching of its Web site dedicated to entrepreneurial and small business development.
AT&T Prepared for Hurricane Ike in Florida (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
As residents and businesses throughout the Southeast and Florida recover from the impact of Hurricane Gustav as well as Tropical Storm Fay, AT&T Inc. is also taking steps to prepare equipment and facilities for a potential strike by Hurricane Ike.
ACT Gathering (The Capital)
A Community of Transformation (ACT), in partnership with Anne Arundel Community College's open house for holistic health, will present a program from 2 to 4 p.m. Sept. 7 at AACC's Cade Building, Room 219, 101 College Parkway in Arnold.
Gustav missed Southeast Texas but still hit mom & pop shops (Beaumont Enterprise)
In years past, when Susan Geyser got a new shipment of homecoming dresses in at Bella Bella on Phelan Boulevard, the store was full of girls strutting through the store in multiple getups, in search of the perfect dress.
2 Ilonggos succeed on bangus, biscocho (Philstar.com)
Tomas Hautea began exercising his entrepreneurial skills when he was still a student. In high school, whenever he would go on excursions or out of town with his family, he would buy transistor radios, blankets and other dry goods to sell back home.