Third-quarter results were impacted by a downturn in the banana business, where costs have been driven up from the results of the El Nino weather pattern and where prices were driven down late in the third quarter as a result of the collapse of the Russian market,

This Core Lab building will be the catalyst for attracting new biotech jobs to the area and will serve as the home to a great collaboration of scientific study that will combine the intellectual power of North Carolina's incredible universities and scientists from private enterprise, working together to perhaps discover breakthroughs in health, nutrition and wellness that have the potential to change the world. We are here to push back the frontiers of science.

This is the best example of what can happen when public institutions and private institutions, like my company, learn to work together for the good of the community and the nation.

I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits are lower risk of Parkinson's, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and dementia.

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.