Area residents waiting to find out what will happen to their favorite JB White store will have to wait a little longer. Dillard's, which is purchasing JB White's parent company for about $3 billion in cash, has extended the deal's deadline to July 21. After the closing of the deal, Dillard's has said it will sell or swap overlapping Mercantile Stores, the Ohio-based company that runs JB White and several other store chains.

...100 workers in its facility on Bobby Jones Expressway in Martinez but will relocate to a building in Augusta's National Hills shopping center, which previously housed a Dillard's department store.The company will spend about $2.5 million...