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99¢ ONLY STORE: offered the first nine customers to its newest store in San Antonio, TX, at 8 a.m. yesterday an Apple 2GB iPod Nano (a $149 value) for 99 cents. And the chain’s store in Lewisville, TX, is inviting brides and grooms to get married there for only 99 cents on June 30. An ordained minister will officiate the ceremony. The entire event will be broadcast on KVCE 1160 from 10 a.m-12 p.m. All the couples need to bring is a marriage license and 99 cents to make their marriage legal. 99¢ Only operates 251 stores in California, Texas, Arizona and Nevada.

HP HOOD: is launching a new ice cream flavor in New England to support the historic Freedom Trail that runs through Boston. Hood’s Freedom Trail Mix ice cream was the top winner in the dairy’s 2006 Taste of New England Flavor Naming contest, which drew more than 1,000 entries. Hood will donate five cents for each carton sold to The Freedom Trail Foundation to help maintain the 2.5-mile walking trail. The flavor has chocolate-covered peanuts, sunflower seeds and pretzels in honey nut ice cream swirled with caramel.