Phoenix to have grand opening

April 6, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

SALEM

Phoenix Corrugated Container LLC will have a grand-opening ceremony and tour at 3 p.m. April 13. The company, at 1390 Allen Road, is a corrugated sheet plant that will serve area companies.

Workshop at YSU

YOUNGSTOWN

SCORE Youngstown, counselors to America’s Small Business, and FranNet, the Franchise Experts, will have a free workshop from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. April 15 at the Williamson College of Business Administration of Youngstown State University.

A free social mixer will follow the presentation.

Residents flee from Palestinian camp

BEIRUT

Hundreds of residents of a Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus fled Sunday amid shelling by government forces and clashes between Islamic State fighters and Palestinian militants, activists said.

An activist based in an area just south of Damascus, Hatem al-Dimashqi, said many residents started fleeing the Yarmouk camp after midnight as the fighting let up. The camp has been subjected to intense shelling and airstrikes by the government.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and al-Dimashqi said those who fled the camp have reached the southern Damascus suburbs of Yalda, Babila and Beit Sahem, which are under rebel control.

$85,000 raised for florist who refused gay couple

RICHLAND, Wash.

A florist in Washington state fined $1,000 for refusing to sell a same-sex couple wedding flowers and also facing a consumer-protection lawsuit filed by the state has netted more than $85,000 in a crowdfunding campaign.

The Seattle Times reports that nearly half of the money on the gofundme.com page set up in late February for Barronelle Stutzman, 70, came in the last several days.

Supporters compare Stutzman’s benefit page to an Indiana pizza shop that raised more than $800,000 after closing when a co-owner expressed support for the state’s new religious-objections law to protect private business owners. The co-owner said the shop wouldn’t cater a gay wedding.

Collider restarted after shutdown

BERLIN

The world’s biggest particle accelerator is back in action after a two-year shutdown and upgrade, embarking on a new mission that scientists hope could give them a look into the unseen dark universe.

Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, on Sunday shot two particle beams through the Large Hadron Collider’s 16.8-mile tunnel, beneath the Swiss-French border near Geneva.

The collider was instrumental in the discovery of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that had long been theorized but never confirmed until 2013.

Scientists are promising nearly twice the energy and more violent particle crashes this time around.

CERN said the restart went smoothly and faster than expected. Still, it will be a while yet before the accelerator is working at full speed and particle crashes start.

Staff/wire reports