Ohio utility warns Pokemon GO players

Ohio utility warns Pokemon GO players

COLUMBUS

A power company in Ohio is warning players of the “Pokemon GO” smartphone app to avoid electrical facilities.

AEP Ohio cautioned players after learning that discussions were suggesting electric-type Pokemon could be caught near substations and transformers.

The company says substations, all power lines and equipment on utility poles and underground electrical facilities commonly identifiable by green boxes in neighborhood yards are dangerous and not to be considered gaming locations.

Feds close probe involving Herbalife

NEW YORK

Federal regulators closed an investigation of the multinational, nutritional supplements company Herbalife, which has for years been dogged by accusations that it was run as an elaborate pyramid scheme.

Though Herbalife was ordered to restructure its U.S. operations and pay a $200 million settlement Friday, it avoided being classified by the U.S. as a pyramid scheme.

Under the settlement announced Friday, Herb- alife must rework the way in which it pays its salespeople. They must be compensated for selling Herbalife products, and the company must scrap incentives that reward them for recruiting other salespeople.

Sunoco clears hurdle after pipeline ruling

HARRISBURG, Pa.

Sunoco has cleared one legal hurdle after a Pennsylvania appeals court upheld the energy company’s power to take private property for a pipeline project, but others obstacles remain.

Commonwealth Court upheld Sunoco Logistics Partners’ power to take private property for its Mariner East 2 Pipeline. The decision was a blow to property owners trying to prevent the use of eminent domain for the 300-mile pipeline project.

The company has said the pipeline would provide four times the capacity to move gas from Marcellus Shale drilling sites in western Pennsylvania to its Marcus Hook storage and distribution facility near Philadelphia.

However, a separate suit also argues that Sunoco has no legal right to use eminent domain to build its pipelines. That suit, filed last year in Philadelphia by the Clean Air Council, argues the pipelines don’t serve a public need.

Egg prices reach lowest in 10 years

DES MOINES, IOWA

In less than a year, eggs have gone from being an expensive staple at the height of the bird-flu crisis to reaching the cheapest prices in a decade due to fully restocked poultry barns.

But the demand for eggs has been stifled because bakeries and companies using powdered eggs in things such as pancake mixes learned to cook without as many of them, and countries that stopped accepting eggs from the U.S. last year, including Canada and Mexico, have been slow to resume imports.

While wholesale egg prices – as little as 55 cents a dozen in June – are good for grocery shoppers’ pocketbooks, the egg industry itself was caught off guard by the imbalance, according to Bill Northey, the agriculture secretary in Iowa, which is the nation’s largest egg-producing state.

Associated Press

Selected local stocks

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Alcoa Inc., .1210.92.21

Aqua America, .71 34.09 .03

Avalon Holdings,2.55—.15

Cortland Bancorp, .2815.10.00

Farmers Nat., .168.90 —.01

First Energy, 1.44 36.19.34

Fifth/Third, .5218.54.10

FirstMerit Corp., .6820.83 .05

First Niles Financial, .129.00.00

FNB Corp., .4813.35.11

General Motors, 1.5230.77.01

General Electric, .9232.88.25

Huntington Bank, .28 9.26.03

iHeartMedia Inc.,1.23 —.04

JP Morgan Chase, 1.9264.18.06

Key Corp, .3411.70—.08

LaFarge, .3417.57 .00

Macy’s, 1.51 34.68—.15

Parker Hannifin, 2.52 113.68—.14

PNC, 2.0482.06—.80

Simon Prop. Grp., 6.40222.94.77

Stoneridge 15.74 .05

Talmer Bank, .20 20.12.18

United Comm. Fin., .10 6.13.00

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