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SportsTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Tallahassee's Florida State Seminoles won a road game for the first time in almost three years Saturday, Nov. 7, rallying past Boston College 31-24 at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, in Rick Stockstill's debut as interim head coach. The victory ended…
From Merger Monday
Monday’s deal tape had a pattern. Nearly every buyer already owned a piece of what it was buying. Crédit Agricole holds 29.6% of Banco BPM and wants to reach about 45% by folding its Italian bank into the Milan lender, structured so that it never has to make a tender offer…
From Merger Monday
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has hired Mizuho Securities and BofA Securities to arrange its first yen-denominated bond sale since April, returning to a market where it has borrowed about twice a year to fund its Japanese investments. The planned benchmark offering of senior unsecured notes is expected in the near future, subject…
From Merger Monday
Onodrim Industries, an Amsterdam company that plans to buy and hold European defense and industrial suppliers, raised $300 million in a Series A round led by Lux Capital that values it at $1.3 billion, nine months after its seed financing. General Catalyst, Lakestar, Altimeter, Strike Capital, 137 Ventures, 8090 and Expeditions…
Home and Garden
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A packet of seeds can stretch a grocery budget further than a bag of store-bought vegetables, and Florida A&M University spent Saturday making that case to families in south Tallahassee at its fifth Harvest Fest. The free festival, put on by FAMU's Lola Hampton-Frank Pinder Center for…
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