Taylor-Smartt LLC, doing business as Kwik Chek Convenience Stores Inc., has purchased Cleo Bustamante Enterprises Inc.’s chain of eight convenience stores.

NEW YORK (AP) — A man inspired by the Islamic State group set off a crude pipe bomb strapped to his body Monday in a crowded subway corridor near Times Square, injuring the man, slightly wounding three others and sending New York commuters fleeing in terror through the smoky passageway.