STAYING PUT: Rejecting sites in Indiana, Texas...

STAYING PUT: Rejecting sites in Indiana, Texas and North Carolina, Harman International Industries has decided to remain in the Valley (D1). . . . The Northridge-based audio equipment manufacturer will add 250 employees to its 2,500-member work force by April to staff a new computer-speaker division.

FOR THE TROOPS: When she heard that U.S. soldiers stationed in Bosnia were hungry for homemade sweets, Vilma Barron went to work. The Burbank resident baked 189 cookies over the weekend and mailed them Monday morning. . . . Barron knows the effect cookies have on lonely soldiers. “They feel like they’re being loved.”