Week ending Jan. 14

NEW YORK -- You thought you found your one true love online, but now you've been dumped by text or defriended on Facebook without a peep of explanation. Hours of bad TV in your bathrobe haven't helped. Your friends are tired of your whining.

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

Week ending Jan. 14

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.

Week ending Jan. 14

NEW YORK A published report says federal prosecutors have presented evidence to a grand jury in their investigation into whether Avon Products executives broke foreign bribery laws.

NEW YORK U.S. stocks are higher at midday after Greece's parliament voted for spending cuts so it can get a bailout to save the country from bankruptcy.

BEIJING China's vice president left Monday for a crucial getting-acquainted visit to the United States before he takes over as leader of the world's most populous nation later this year, amid tensions over trade, currency and a sharpening competition for global influence.

NEW YORK The company that runs Manhattan's Empire State Building is planning an initial public offering that could raise as much as $1 billion.

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.8 trillion spending plan on Monday for 2013 that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade but does little to restrain growth in the government's huge health benefit programs, a major cause of future deficits.

NEW YORK Apple's stock broke above $500 for the first time Monday. It was the latest step in a rally that began more than two weeks ago, when the company reported staggering sales and profits for the holiday quarter.

TEHRAN, Iran A senior Iranian military official said Monday that Tehran's nuclear and other industrial facilities suffer periodic cyber attacks, but that the country has the technology to protect itself from the threat, an official news agency reported.

TEHRAN, Iran Many Iranian web users say their access to foreign email services such as Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail appears to have been restored after a four day outage.

BAGHDAD Iraq's capital is embracing Valentine's Day this year with a huge public display of affection in what its residents say is the nation's most amorous celebration of the holiday ever.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Malaysia's government on Monday defended its decision to deport a young Saudi journalist who may face persecution at home for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad on Twitter.