Wright Express acquires rapid! PayCard

rapid! PayCard’s products enable companies to pay employees with debit cards.

Walgreens to open on Marginal Way

The roughly 12,500-square-foot store next to Trader Joe’s is scheduled to open on Friday. It is the third Walgreens location in Porland.

Police close part of outer Forest Avenue

Details to follow.

Maine home loan brokersquestion new rule

Members of Maine’s real estate industry are scrambling to comply with licensing requirements that take effect Friday, when home “loan originators” will need state licenses.

Originators are the people who make money from taking loan applications, including loan brokers and some staffers for real estate and manufactured-housing companies.

Maine’s Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection has received 1,550 license applications. There are 18,000 loan officers registered under the state’s current system, said Julie Stolt, spokeswoman for the bureau.

Chris Bradley keeps his eye on numbers, asks questions

Cuddledown’s owner bought the company after starting his career on Wall Street.

The Bottom Line: Duck, duck, gooseThey’re down with that

Cuddledown takes flight by focusing on the high end of bedding.

Odyssey of the Mind

Hundreds of students at the state’s most creative tournament demonstrate that Maine has plenty of young people ready to find solutions to challenges

Fairchild ‘moves’ to increase status

The chip maker relocates its headquarters to Silicon Valley, but nothing will change in South Portland.

Fairchild moving HQ to Calif.

A spokesman says the move will not affect the chip maker’s operations in South Portland, nor lead to layoffs or transfers.

Mixing and matchingat a job fair in Portland

PORTLAND — Hundreds of job seekers mingled with hiring representatives from dozens of companies Tuesday at a job fair at the Italian Heritage Center.

Inside the convention room, people with work experience in a variety of fields chatted and exchanged business cards with staffers from 45 companies.

Among the employers with booths were insurance companies such as Liberty Mutual, New York Life, AAA and Combined Insurance.