Pfizer To Stop Selling Drugs For Use In Lethal Injections and other top stories.

• Pfizer To Stop Selling Drugs For Use In Lethal Injections

  The pharmaceutical company Pfizer said Friday it will move to prevent its drugs from being used in lethal injections. Pfizer was the "last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions," The New York Times reported. More than 20 other U.S. and European drugmakers had already blocked their drugs from being used in executions. "Pfizer makes its products to enhance and save the lives of the patients we serve," Pfizer said in a statement. "Pfizer strongly objects to the use of its product..

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• State spends $3.6 million on Flint emergency paychecks

  

  LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan has spent millions to pay officials and government workers scrambling to provide water, filters and other resources after lead contaminated Flint’s water, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.Data from the State Budget Office shows the state spent more than $3.6 million to pay state workers for such things as buying and shipping water, informing Flint residents and media about response efforts, sampling water, testing animals for lead exposure a..

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• Day After Selling City's Old Main Post Office, Bill Davies Dies

  

  CHICAGO (STMW) — British real estate mogul William “Bill” Davies died Friday, a day after closing a deal to sell Chicago’s historic old Main Post Office building. Davies, 82, had been ill for several weeks before the sale of the long-closed building that straddles Congress Parkway in the West Loop, according to Vicky Flores, who ran the Chicago office of Davies’ International Property Developers. Davies was hospitalized in Barbados more than a month ago after suffering “some sort of stroke,” Fl..

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• Alibaba Flies High in the Cloud, Rolls Out Joint Venture with Softbank

  

  Alibaba and its largest shareholder SoftBank Group have teamed up to launch a cloud computing venture. The new venture called the SB Cloud Corp. will target Japanese customers that range from startups to organizations. Both the companies will provide a new data center, which will provide cloud computing services. Alibaba will manage the private data of these companies through its cloud computing arm. Softbank will fund 60% of the deal, while other financial details were not disclosed. The deal ..

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• Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo

  

  Photo The investor Warren Buffett, left, and Dan Gilbert, the founder of Quicken Loans, at a panel discussion in 2013. Credit Rebecca Cook/Reuters Yahoo appears to be making progress in efforts to sell itself, despite some initial skepticism.The latest piece of evidence: Among those vying for the company is the unusual combination of the investor Warren E. Buffett and Dan Gilbert, the founder of Quicken Loans and owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers.That consortium is one o..

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