It took two years to build the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Ark., a world-class art museum founded by Alice Walton, heir to the Walmart fortune. The museum houses a priceless collection of art housed in buildings designed by the internationally acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie.

More foreign investors are finding the production cost advantages in their homelands is less valuable than being directly attached to the world’s greatest consumer market.

Custom woodworker stories of award winners were super popular at WoodworkingNetwork.com this week. Many of these winners will be coming to Cabinets & Closets Expo next month to bask in the glory.

$50 billion in rebuilding and reconstruction for Hurricane Sandy damage, approved by the U.S. House, tops wood industry news this week. But Walmart's pledge to U.S.-made furniture and a pine beetle wood star were among most viewed items at WoodworkingNetwork.

The company will provide woodwork, fixtures and other items to the chain.

Palm Beach, FL - A Florida woman whose daughter was found strangled to death in a drop-side crib manufactured by Simplicity Inc., recently reached a wrongful death lawsuit settlement with Walmart and the now defunct crib maker, according to AboutLawsuits.com. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Simplicity recalled approximately one million drop-side cribs two days after the 2-year-old’s death in September 2007.