Home Depot Zeros In On Pro Builder Market With $18.3 Billion Deal

Dow Jones home improvement retailer Home Depot (HD) on Thursday announced plans to acquire SRS Distribution for $18.25 billion, the largest purchase in company history. HD stock ticked lower early Thursday on the news. X McKinney, Texas-based SRS Distribution is a residential specialty trade distribution company that serves professional roofers, landscapers and pool contractors. The … Read more

Trump expected to attend wake for fallen NYPD officer as he ramps up rhetoric on crime

Former President Donald Trump is expected to attend the wake for New York Police Officer Jonathan Diller on Thursday. Diller was killed Monday when he was shot in Queens after he approached an illegally parked vehicle. New York police spokesperson Tarik Sheppard said the officers were expecting Trump at the wake in Massapequa on Long … Read more

City to pay $495K for Ala. 67/Upper River intersection property if council approves

Mar. 28—City Engineer Carl Prewitt asked the Decatur City Council this week for $495,000 to complete a right-of-way acquisition deal in the planned Upper River Road-Alabama 67 intersection realignment. Prewitt said Bradley Wisener, of Wisener LLC in Guntersville, negotiated the deal for the city with Mary Davenport, who owns the 0.2-acre property on the southeast … Read more

Bernie Moreno says he fled socialism in Colombia for the US in 1971. What does history say?

Bernie Moreno, the Republican candidate for US Senate in Ohio who expected to mount a stern challenge to Sherrod Brown, the incumbent leftwing Democrat, says his family fled socialism when they came to the US from Colombia in 1971, when he was four years old. Though such statements formed a central part of Moreno’s campaign … Read more