Sears still is not saying when its Macon Mall store will close. But signs of the store’s imminent shuttering are showing up, and the mall’s owners say they expect it could close in April.

There is a historical marker at Third Street Park near the intersection of Cherry Street in the heart of downtown. The marker is one of more than four dozen in Bibb County and one of more than 2,000 administered by the Georgia Historical Society.

There was, once upon a time, a place in America where real estate was a solid investment guaranteed to produce dividends. Families borrowed on their nest eggs to pay for college and the less than needed cars, boats and big screen televisions. For the time being, that is no longer applicable. Home prices fell in 18 of 20 cities tracked by Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller home-price index released Tuesday. Phoenix is the only city to show an increase, while Atlanta, Detroit and Chicago exhibited deep declines. All this by comparing November data to 2010 statistics in Atlanta, Las Vegas, Seattle and Tampa. Prices have fallen 33 percent nationwide.

Performing Saturday at the Macon Blues Festival will be a homecoming of sorts for Clarence Carter.

Mexico's former ruling party has filed a complaint accusing federal prosecutors of leaking information tying three of the party's former governors to a drug money-laundering investigation.

Competitive-eating champ Takeru Kobayashi (tah-kah-roo koh-bee-yah-shee) conquered Philadelphia's annual gustatory gorge-fest by eating 337 chicken wings in a half-hour before a crowd of nearly 20,000 at Wing Bowl XX.