{"id":1457,"date":"2008-12-16T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xbizx.com\/index.php\/1457\/local-business-news-in-brief-spectrum-3\/"},"modified":"2008-12-16T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T16:30:09","slug":"local-business-news-in-brief-spectrum-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/1457\/local-business-news-in-brief-spectrum-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Business News In Brief &#8211; Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.thespectrum.com\/article\/20081216\/BUSINESS\/812160329'>Local Business News In Brief &#8211; Spectrum<\/a><br \/>NEWCASTLE &#8211; Ryan and Melanie Christensen of Newcastle were honored with the Young Farmer &#038; Rancher &#8216;Achievement Award&#8217; at the Utah Farm Bureau Federation&#8217;s Annual Convention in Layton late last month. &#8220;We&#8217;re proud of Ryan and Melanie for winning this   <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/news.sky.com\/skynews\/Home\/UK-News\/Rhys-Jones-Sean-Mercer-Found-Guilty-Of-Shooting-11-Year-Old-In-L11-Merseyside\/Article\/200812315182084?f=rss'>Mercer Murdered 11-Year-Old Rhys &#8211; Sky.com<\/a><br \/>Pick your News Most Popular Stories Latest Stories Latest Videos Latest Picture Galleries Popular UK News Popular Politics Popular World News Popular Business News Popular Technology Strange News Popular Health Popular Showbiz News Police said Mercer   <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.courierpostonline.com\/article\/20081216\/BUSINESS\/812160316'>Coca-Cola to sell drinks made with new sweetener &#8211; Courier-Post<\/a><br \/>The Food and Drug Administration is expected to determine that sweetener made from the herb stevia is &#8220;generally regarded as safe,&#8221; but the agency&#8217;s sign-off has taken longer than expected. Purchase, N.Y.-based PepsiCo Inc. has two drinks made with   <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.timesrecordnews.com\/news\/2008\/dec\/16\/union-detroit-papers-plan-job-cuts-less-delivery\/'>Union: Detroit papers plan job cuts, less delivery &#8211; Wichita Falls Times Record News<\/a><br \/>DETROIT (AP)     Detroit&#8217;s newspapers plan to cut 9 percent of their work force and offer fewer days of home delivery at a time of slumping revenue industrywide, a union official said Tuesday. It&#8217;s unclear where the cuts will fall at the Detroit Free   <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.timesrecordnews.com\/news\/2008\/dec\/16\/inflation-drops-bigger--expected-17-percent\/'>Inflation drops bigger-than-expected 1.7 percent &#8211; Wichita Falls Times Record News<\/a><br \/>WASHINGTON (AP)     A record plunge in consumer prices in November puts pressure on the Federal Reserve to act decisively to guard against a debilitating bout of deflation. The Fed wraps up a two-day meeting Tuesday. Economists expect the central   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Business News In Brief &#8211; SpectrumNEWCASTLE &#8211; Ryan and Melanie Christensen of Newcastle were honored with the Young Farmer &#038; Rancher &#8216;Achievement Award&#8217; at the Utah Farm Bureau Federation&#8217;s Annual Convention in Layton late last month. &#8220;We&#8217;re proud of Ryan and Melanie for winning this Mercer Murdered 11-Year-Old Rhys &#8211; Sky.comPick your News Most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/1457\/local-business-news-in-brief-spectrum-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local Business News In Brief &#8211; Spectrum<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}