SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- After years of stagnant national sales, the gas crisis may be pumping some new life and changes into the bicycle industry.

Those seeking the oohs and aahs of traditional Fourth of July fireworks could be sadly disappointed this year: Public displays and sales of boxed firecrackers are being canceled or scaled back across the nation, victims of a sluggish economy, wildfire fears and product shortages caused by a warehouse fire in China.

CINCINNATI -- First it was the tomatoes. Now it's the beef.

Grace Leong

In yet another surprising twist to the iProvo saga, Broadweave Networks has dropped its plans to buy the operations and customer base of iProvo phone and data service provider Veracity.

DALLAS -- The computer screen on Scott Topping's desk at Southwest Airlines flickered with row after row of dates and numbers, but they had nothing to do with arrivals and departures.

SALT LAKE CITY -- State officials have approved gas rate increases for residential customers of Questar Gas. The rate hikes approved by the Utah Public Service Commission mean customers will have to pay an additional $163 per year.

Grace Leong

More livestock producers in Utah are getting clobbered by high corn and fuel prices.

By SETH SUTEL

AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- Fourteen years ago, Jeff Taylor helped set off a tectonic shift in recruitment advertising by founding Monster.com, one of the first online companies to challenge a big profit source of newspapers.