Busacca to take charge of Champions League Final

Massimo Busacca of Switzerland was announced Monday by UEFA as the referee for the Champions League final between Barcelona and Manchester United.

Wednesday's match in Rome's Stadio Olimpico will be Busacca's second European club final, after the all-Spanish UEFA Cup title match between Sevilla and Espanyol in 2007.

The 40-year-old Busacca was in charge when Barcelona and Man United met in the semifinals of last season's Champions League.

He awarded visiting United a penalty for handball after only three minutes of the …

Sugar Grove home adapts look from 80 years ago

The Craftsman interior of the Cromwell model stretches back 80years, but the look has been artfully adapted to the 1990s.

Krys'-Jon Inc. constructed the 2,875-square-foot, two-storyhome, priced at $295,000 in the Windstone Valley development, for therecent 1991 Show of Homes in Sugar Grove. The Kane County show hasclosed, but the model remains open this weekend.

Deb Barrett, owner of Window Dressings in Kaneville, and artistCynthia Hawk, owner of Heart and Hand in Sycamore, collaborated onthe scheme. The two women, partners in Hawk/Barrett Interiors inKaneville, were inspired by the decorative Arts and Crafts movementof the 1910s.

The Mission style …

Floods kill 136 in Pakistan

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani relief official says monsoon rains have killed 136 people in the south of the country and flooded hundreds of thousand of rice, cotton and sugarcane crops.

Sajjad Hayder Shah said Monday 90 of the victims had been killed over the last week, many when their houses collapsed.

Last year, southern Pakistan was hardest hit by massive …

Euro trading lower at $1.3591

The uncertainty about Greece's financial stability and a possible European bailout plan has sent the 16-nation euro lower in early European trading.

The EU's Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn was set to hold talks later Monday in Athens with Greek officials, including Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou and George …

Luxor casino: 30-story pyramid

LAS VEGAS Ground has been broken for Las Vegas' newest resort, a30-story pyramid costing $325 million that will be named after theancient Egyptian city of Luxor.

The 2,521-room, Egyptian-theme resort will be just south of the4,032-room Excalibur Hotel. Both are owned by Circus CircusEnterprises, the company that began Las Vegas' metamorphosis from ahaven for high rollers to a …

Journal's publisher to relocate

In May, Journal Publications Inc., publisher of the Central Penn Business Journal, will relocate its main office to 101 N. Second St., Harrisburg, a few blocks north of its current location in the PinnacleHealth System's Southgate Building at 409 S. Second St., publisher David A. Schankweiler announced.

The building was purchased from Fast Print Copying, a business with a second location at 10 17 Eisenhower Blvd., Swatara Township. Fast Print Copying soon plans to consolidate both locations into one 11,000-squarefoot building at 1310 Crooked Hill Road, Harrisburg, according to manager John Williams.

Schankweiler and partners John and David Brinjac, of the Harrisburg …

McCain, Obama question $700B financial bailout

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain raised doubts Monday about the Bush administration's $700 billion bailout and demanded conditions that could snag its quick passage through the highly partisan Congress.

Less than six weeks remained in the presidential contest as the candidates were preparing for their first debate on Friday, a confrontation on foreign policy and national security. Those issues, despite ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, have slid to a distant second place behind voter anxiety over the U.S. economy, which is in the midst of a financial crisis not seen since the 1930s Great Depression.

McCain, who only a week ago said the …