Longtime agency executive Bill Fries, best known for turning an ad campaign for an Iowa bread company into the outlaw trucker anthem, “Convoy,” which reached No. 1 on the charts in 1976 and inspired a movie, died on Friday at his home in Colorado. He was 93. Fries worked as an ad executive at Bozell & Jacobs in Omaha in the 1970s, when he helped to create a series of television commercials for Metz Baking Company about a trucker named C.W. McCall hauling Old Home bread in an eighteen-wheeler.

New York Mayor Eric Adams has partnered with private companies to place digital billboards in Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa and West Palm Beach for eight weeks denouncing Florida's “Don’t Say Gay” law. The goal is to bring state residents opposed to the legislation to New York City. “This political showmanship of attempting to demonize a particular group or community is unacceptable and we are going to loudly show our support and say to those living in Florida, ‘Listen, we want you here in New York,’” Adams said at a press conference.

17:53:07Major League Baseball has signed a multiyear deal naming Capital One as the league’s official bank and credit card partner and the presenting sponsor of the World Series. Financial terms of the pact were not revealed, but industry analysts put the deal at $125 million over five years. Capital One replaces Bank of America, an MLB partner since 2004.

Inventory levels of chinchilla, fox, mink, sable and other pelts at Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman have contracted by more than half since its commitment was announced last June. The luxury retailer says it is on track to eliminate fur by March 2023. The retailer partnered with the Humane Society of the United States in 2021 to craft its new animal-welfare policy.