YAKIMA -- For the salads that Don Copp sells at seven Papa Murphy's stores in the Yakima Valley, he opts to purchase romaine hearts and cut and clean them in-house.

SUNNYSIDE -- This city might turn to a familiar face to finally put the former Monson feedlot to good use.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- You say TV, I say internet.

RICHLAND -- The amount of information we have access to these days is astounding.

RITZVILLE -- More than 10,000 cars and trucks whiz past Ritzville on Interstate 90 each day.

The Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce will hold a Business Development University workshop called "Taming the Lion ... Preparing Your Small Business for Tax Season" from 1 to 3 p.m. Feb. 23 at the Tri-Cities Business and Visitors Center.

Stainsealed, a company that specializes in wood restoration and preservation, recently opened in Richland.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Thursday it will issue licenses for the first U.S. nuclear reactors in a generation.

This month's Umatilla Chamber of Commerce Business-to-Business Lunch will feature guest speaker Janet Jones of the Umatilla County Health Depart- ment.

The 1984 Bhopal disaster in India will be discussed at the Feb. 16 meeting of the Eastern Washington Chapter of the Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers.

BANGKOK World stock markets rose Monday after Greece's parliament approved a new set of austerity measures that were required by international lenders in exchange for an emergency bailout.

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is sending Congress a new budget that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade through cuts in government spending and higher taxes on the wealthy. At the same time, he wants to boost spending in key areas such as transportation and education.

TOKYO Japan's economy shrank 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter as manufacturers were battered by the strong yen, weak export demand amid the European debt crisis and flooding in Thailand.

SINGAPORE Oil prices rose to near $100 a barrel Monday in Asia after the Greek parliament approved new austerity measures that should secure a bailout and avoid bankruptcy.

ATHENS, Greece Greek lawmakers on Monday approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the debt-crippled nation from bankruptcy, after riots in Athens and other cities left stores looted and burned and more than 120 people hurt.

BEIJING Authorities have seized Apple iPads from retailers in a city in northern China due to a dispute with a domestic company that says it owns the iPad name, an official said Monday. The Chinese company said it is asking for similar action in more than 20 other cities.

NEW YORK Mike Trang likes to use his iPhone 4 as a GPS device, helping him get around in his job. Now and then, his younger cousins get ahold of it, and play some YouTube videos and games.

SAN FRANCISCO Netflix pressed the rewind button on its fourth-quarter earnings after settling allegations that the video subscription service violated a consumer-privacy law.

NEW YORK Within just over a week, Netflix and Hulu are both debuting their first stabs at original scripted programming.

SAO PAULO A request for an injunction to stop Twitter users from alerting drivers to police roadblocks, radar traps and drunk-driving checkpoints could make Brazil the first country to take Twitter up on its plan to censor content at governments' requests.