Fuel squeeze is on for middle men (New Hampshire Union Leader) THE MIDDLE MAN is getting squeezed. Several New Hampshire businesses say rising fuel prices have meant higher bills for them, but they haven't transferred their higher costs on to their customers.

Today's Business Calendar (Portsmouth Herald) DURHAM - Professional development and training workshop, "Designing Effective Web Sites," 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the University of New Hampshire, Cole Hall, Room 141. Cost: $150 plus $45 lab fee. Contact: 862-2015 or www.learn.unh.edu.

Thousands Rally in Support of American Aid to Darfur (New York Times) Thousands of people urged Americans and the Bush administration to do more to help end the ethnic and political conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Hoping more will be better (The Biloxi Sun Herald) Tourism traffic to the historical Piatt Castles - picturesque stone Civil War era homes that hug the western Ohio hillsides - has been steadily falling for 10 years.

FreedomRoads, Nation's Largest RV Retailer, Acquires Olinger Travel Homes; Company Moves Decisively Into Portland, (The Auto Channel) LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.--May 3, 2006--Chicago-based FreedomRoads, LLC, the nation's largest RV retailer with annual revenues of $1.4 billion, today announced that it has acquired Olinger Travel Homes, establishing a powerful presence in Portland, Oregon and further penetrating the West Coast RV market.