Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News articles from January 28 2005

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News archives from January 28 2005

Antique bizarre opens in place of flea market.
January 28, 2005... By Ed Scott, The Augusta Chronicle, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--North Augusta's Flea Mall has undergone a metamorphosis and now is named Riverfront Plaza. The 89,000-square-foot area that once housed the flea...

Smaller companies say Sarbanes-Oxley Act is too tough.
January 28, 2005... By James Gallagher, The Augusta Chronicle, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Million-dollar birthday parties, shredded documents and overstated earnings are just a few of the corporate excesses and scandals perpetrated...

New Goodyear tires to be made from material used in bulletproof vests.
January 28, 2005... Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is rolling out two new premium tires designed to capture a bigger share of the market for pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles. ...

Victims of predatory lending can air concerns.
January 28, 2005... By Gloria Irwin, Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--A Cleveland coalition whose mission is fighting predatory lending has scheduled a meeting in Akron to hear from people who think they may have been...

Scrap and salvage company reinvests profits in shredder.
January 28, 2005... By Jessica Coomes, Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Chunks of scrap steel jingle like coins as they slide off the conveyer belt, landing in a silvery pile. Just a minute before, these pieces had...

AT&T merger rumors again surface.
January 28, 2005... By Robert Luke, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--It was just over a year ago that BellSouth was close to clinching a deal to buy AT&T. But Ma Bell's price tag -- along with its deteriorating...

Hypoallergenic cats on the way.
January 28, 2005... By Christine Van Dusen, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Ever felt left out on National Hug Your Cat Day -- otherwise known as May 15 -- because cuddling a cat sends you into a sneezing spasm?...

Metro area jobless rate up.
January 28, 2005... By Tammy Joyner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Metro Atlanta's unemployment rate rose slightly in December to 4.2 percent. The 20-county region also ended the year with a slightly higher...

Lowe's CEO says bold moves by Home Depot spurred his company.
January 28, 2005... By Renee DeGross, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--The outgoing top executive of Lowe's has a thank-you of sorts for his Atlanta-based archrival. Home Depot's nationwide growth binge in...

Stocks mixed; market waits.
January 28, 2005... By Tom Walker, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Investors turned in a mixed performance on Wall Street Thursday in advance of a weekend that includes the election in Iraq and a meeting of OPEC...

UPS plans cutbacks.
January 28, 2005... By Kirsten Tagami, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Despite another strong year, delivery giant UPS is trimming its sails after a disappointing 1.2 percent gain in fourth-quarter profit. ...

Web scam targets bank customers.
January 28, 2005... By Patrick J. Powers, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Customers logging online to manage their finances with Regions Financial Corp., formerly Union Planters Bank, should avoid a recent Internet...

Business district sales tax proposed.
January 28, 2005... By Jennifer Kapiolani Saxton, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--TROY -- Troy leaders and a developer want to establish a business district for the planned Troy Town Center so a 1 percent sales tax...

Company phasing out 3(Tone) after just 2 years.
January 28, 2005... By Alicia Wallace, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Level 3 Communications Inc. is discontinuing a business voice service that is sold by more than 100 resellers. The Broomfield-based...

Gold Banc to expand; lawsuit dropped.
January 28, 2005... By Kurt D. Schultheis, The Bradenton Herald, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--BRADENTON -- A lawsuit against Gold Banc Corp., parent company of Florida-based Gold Bank, was dropped Thursday, ending legal woes that have...

Local Realty firm's owner confident in strength of real estate market.
January 28, 2005... By Melissa Followell, The Bradenton Herald, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--LAKEWOOD RANCH -- Michael Saunders isn't looking for the bottom of the real estate market to fall out anytime soon. "I was the first one...

Workforce board seeks to improve jobs.
January 28, 2005... By Matt Griswold, The Bradenton Herald, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--LAKEWOOD RANCH -- The Suncoast Workforce Board on Thursday voted to work to improve employees, jobs and the Manatee-Sarasota business climate...

Matamoros sees economic impact due to recent advisory.
January 28, 2005... By Sergio Chapa, The Brownsville Herald, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--MATAMOROS -- Millie Gratsky and her friends James and Elda Davis were the only Winter Texans that could be seen in the Mercado Juarez early...

Tourists cope with Mexico's violence.
January 28, 2005... By Sergio Chapa, The Brownsville Herald, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--MATAMOROS, Mex. -- Millie Gratsky and her friends James and Elda Davis were the only Winter Texans that could be seen in the Mercado Juarez early...

Budget proposal includes funding to study Brownsville ship channel.
January 28, 2005... By Emma Perez-Trevino, The Brownsville Herald, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--BROWNSVILLE -- President Bush will include $2.5 million in his proposed 2006 fiscal year budget for a feasibility study on deepening the...

PUB board composition remains in question.
January 28, 2005... By Emma Perez-Trevino, The Brownsville Herald, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--The Brownsville Public Utilities Board or the Brownsville City Commission should request an opinion from Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott...

Columbia, Md.-based computer sales equipment maker beats expectations.
January 28, 2005... By William Patalon III, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Micros Systems Inc., the Columbia-based maker of computer sales equipment for restaurants, retailers and hotels, yesterday reported strong results for...

Viewers in search of HDTV get caught between broadcasters, cable operators.
January 28, 2005... By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Shawn Henson, an avid Ravens fan, bought herself a 65-inch Toshiba high-definition television as a Christmas present this year and planned to have a big...

Office Depot signs lease for downtown Baltimore building.
January 28, 2005... By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--After sitting empty for months, prime space on the ground floor of the landmark One Charles Center building in downtown Baltimore has signed its first...

Brothers create stronger, splash-proof plunger.
January 28, 2005... By Mike Drummond, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--What began as a clog bubbled into a dream come true. Brothers Kirk and Mark Leaphart, apartment owners in Simpsonville, S.C., about 87 miles...

Nucor quarterly profit rises beyond analysts' expectations.
January 28, 2005... By Gillian Wee, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Charlotte steel giant Nucor Corp. saw fourth-quarter profits jump more than 15-fold to $2.12 per share or $341.4 million from a year ago, following...

US Airways to close shops, end jobs.
January 28, 2005... By Tony Mecia, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--In another move designed to cut costs, US Airways is closing many of its specialty maintenance shops, eliminating about 280 jobs, including 150 in...

Wachovia looks to life insurance to defray costs.
January 28, 2005... By Rick Rothacker, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Wachovia Corp. this week told some employees that it wants to carry additional life insurance on them as a way to defray the rising cost of...

Warm Springs, Ga., hospital eliminates 5 positions.
January 28, 2005... By Harry Franklin, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--The Warm Springs Medical Center cut five jobs from its staff Wednesday and Thursday to improve finances for the struggling hospital and nursing...

AT&T could be bought out by its former spinoff SBC Communications.
January 28, 2005... The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--What was considered unthinkable eight years ago may well be inevitable today. A takeover of AT&T Corp. by its progeny SBC Communications Inc. will face far fewer...

Real estate boom sparks college students' interest.
January 28, 2005... By Angela Shah, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--The hyperactive U.S. real estate market of recent years has often prompted economists to worry over a housing bubble -- and when it might burst. ...

About 10,000 idle autoworkers being paid full wages.
January 28, 2005... By Jeffrey McCracken, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Amid falling U.S. market share, shuttered plants and production cutbacks, Detroit's three automakers and largest auto supplier are paying about 10,000...

Detroit Free Press Tom Walsh column.
January 28, 2005... By Tom Walsh, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--SPENDTHRIFT DETROIT MAY FOLLOW CHINA: When I visited China 15 years ago, I snapped a picture at the Beijing Jeep plant of a sign with one of those perplexing...

German pressure.
January 28, 2005... By Ruth Sunderland, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Deutsche Borse's "proposed pre-conditional cash offer" -- I wonder how you say that in German? -- leaves everything to play for in the battle for the...

Daily Mail, London, business briefs column.
January 28, 2005... Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--LONMIN INVESTORS REJECT PAY REPORT: Investors threw out the board pay report at mining group Lonmin by 55.2pc to 44.8pc -- only the second time a big company's pay report has...

Daily Mail, London, Lucy Farndon column.
January 28, 2005... By Lucy Farndon, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--The worst thing about the demise of Allders is that the staff who have worked so hard to revive the business are likely to be left out of pocket....

MPC expert warns rates will be hit by inflation.
January 28, 2005... By Edmund Conway, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--The era of low inflation will soon draw to an end, predicted a Bank of England expert, crushing hopes that interest rates are ready to be cut. Stephen...

Standard loses its crown.
January 28, 2005... By Ian Lyall, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Standard Life chief executive Sandy Crombie described the company's annual sales figures as "work in progress." He said the mutually-owned insurer is still...

Daily Mail, London, market report column.
January 28, 2005... By Geoff Foster, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Woolworths has not exactly set the world alight since demerging from Kingfisher in the late summer of 2001. Indeed, you could say that the retailer has...

MMO2 aims for limited launch of 3g services.
January 28, 2005... Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--MMO2's long-awaited third-generation launch will be a "slow burn," covering only 30pc of the UK until the summer. After that half the country will be able to dial into the...

Shareholders balk at WH Smith's executive pay packages.
January 28, 2005... By Ruth Sunderland, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Shareholders at struggling stationer WH Smith have delivered a resounding protest vote at the pay packages handed out to chief executive Kate Swann and...

Men behind the empire.
January 28, 2005... Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Minerva chief executive Andrew Rosenfeld founded the property group 17 years ago with chairman Sir David Garrard. Between them, the pair own 22pc of Minerva, holding...

Minerva shelves sell-off.
January 28, 2005... By James Quinn, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Minerva boss Andrew Rosenfeld has pulled the plug on the property firm's own takeover talks just a day after Allders, where it owns a 60pc stake, went into...

Rebels turn up the heat on WH Smith.
January 28, 2005... By Brian O'Connor, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--SHAREHOLDERS in retailer WH Smith sent a new warning to their board about high pay and low performance. Holders of 15.9m votes opposed the board pay...

LSE investors braced for Seifert's charm offensive.
January 28, 2005... By James Quinn, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Deutsche Borse boss Werner Seifert plans to woo the London Stock Exchange's largest investors after its 530p-a-share offer was spurned for the second time in...

Daily Mail, London, Ruth Sunderland column.
January 28, 2005... By Ruth Sunderland, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--We stirred up a hornet's nest on these pages when we raised the question of property group Minerva's responsibility for Allders" pension fund. ...

Pace fined [pounds sterling]450,000.
January 28, 2005... Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Pace Micro Technology has been fined [pounds sterling]450,000 by the Financial Services Authority for failing to give a sufficient profit warning. It is the FSA's...

Nationwide implements surcharge; non-hurricane claims will see fee next week.
January 28, 2005... South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--In a rare move among homeowner insurers, Nationwide Insurance is tacking on a 20 percent surcharge for non-hurricane claims starting Tuesday. The surcharge, which...

ConocoPhillips agrees to cut pollution at 9 refineries in 7 states.
January 28, 2005... By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--The federal government has negotiated a settlement with ConocoPhillips that requires the nation's largest oil refiner to slash pollution...

Rare postelection dispute in Texas could stir up partisan tensions.
January 28, 2005... By Jay Root, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--AUSTIN -- One of them recently wielded enormous power as a Republican committee chairman. The other is a freshman Democrat, the first Vietnamese...

Watchdog group to monitor Trans Texas Corridor project.
January 28, 2005... By Gordon Dickson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--HOUSTON -- A state-sanctioned watchdog group will keep an eye on the construction of toll roads across Texas, and state leaders promise that...

The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind., business digest column.
January 28, 2005... The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--JOBS AT GM PLANT: General Motors' Fort Wayne Assembly Plant, which employs 2,913 with an annual payroll of $219.05 million, will add 203 workers, which...

Fares at Logan International Airport fall in quarter.
January 28, 2005... By Keith Reed, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--It's cheaper than it's been in a decade to fly from Logan International Airport. Average fares from Logan in last year's third quarter were 9.6 percent...

Hurting AT&T still an SBC target.
January 28, 2005... By Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--AT&T Corp. may be a rapidly shrinking shell of its former self, but its blue-chip business customers and worldwide network still make it an enticing $16...

Red Sox adding premium seats.
January 28, 2005... By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--The Boston Red Sox next week will disclose details of Fenway Park improvements planned for the next two seasons, including the addition in 2006 of a...

Oil services firm to lease Cambridge space.
January 28, 2005... By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Oil services company Schlumberger Technology Corp. this week agreed to lease a sizable, 190,000 square feet in buildings owned by Draper Laboratory in...

Five charged with evading payroll tax.
January 28, 2005... By Diane E. Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--A Boston federal grand jury indicted five people this week, charging them with operating four temporary employment agencies that paid workers $30 million in...

Sports merchandisers tap into feminine side.
January 28, 2005... By Naomi Aoki, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Are you ready for some football, ladies? Because the National Football League is courting female fans with a fast-growing array of jerseys, T-shirts, hats,...

Chamber plans political activity.
January 28, 2005... By Tom Dochat, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--The Harrisburg Regional Chamber has formed a political action committee to promote its business agenda among state legislators. David...

OBITUARY: Ford dealer loved work on his farm, in his office.
January 28, 2005... By Mary Klaus, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Earl B. Hoffman Sr. wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty. Whether milking cows on his farm or knocking dents out of damaged cars at his...

High bidder scraps plan to buy property from state.
January 28, 2005... By John Beauge, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--The state has lost another buyer for the former Laurelton Center in Union County. Firetree Ltd., a Williamsport firm that wanted to convert...

Health Scam Alarm Sounded; Promised Savings Are Called Bogus.
January 28, 2005... By Diane Levick, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Connecticut officials are warning consumers about bogus programs that promise discounts on health care but don't deliver, and have formed a task...

Insurer The Hartford's Stock Declines By 1.6 percent.
January 28, 2005... By Diane Levick, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--It was hard to tell whether disclosures on investigations played any role in a $1.11 decline in The Hartford's stock price Thursday, or whether...

The Record, Hackensack, N.J., business people column.
January 28, 2005... The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--MICHAEL G. ZAMPIERI, D.M.D., a May 2004 graduate of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, has joined his father, Robert A. Zampieri, D.D.S., in a...

Drug makers get tax break, can 'repatriate' foreign earnings.
January 28, 2005... By Lewis Krauskopf, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Last year was a miserable one for the pharmaceutical industry, but a federal law signed in October is providing a signature bright spot heading...

Signs point to economic growth continuing in N.J., nationally this year.
January 28, 2005... By Kathleen Lynn, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--At Executive Office Furniture in Paramus and Fairfield, sales jumped 20 percent last year. For the first time in several years, the company is...

Consultants aid rebirth of polluted sites.
January 28, 2005... By Colleen Diskin, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Thirty years ago, New Jersey was littered with abandoned industries that not only scarred the landscape but also drained the pocketbooks of the...

Health insurance accounts spreading.
January 28, 2005... By Teresa M. McAleavy, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--The health insurance plans touted by President Bush as the fix for an ailing system will be more available to Americans this year. Health...

Companies struggle to fill jobs with Americans.
January 28, 2005... By Elizabeth Llorente, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--In response to growing complaints that the United States was neglecting unemployed Americans by making it too easy for U.S. employers to...

Mexico reworks worm rule.
January 28, 2005... By Jenalia Moreno, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--The worm's fate has turned. The Mexican government decided a few weeks ago to change direction on new standards for the country's mescal liquor. But...

Houston show displays the year's hot vehicles.
January 28, 2005... By David Kaplan, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--More than 600 vehicles will vie for attention at the 2005 Houston Auto Show, which starts today. But only a handful will receive the most coveted kind of...

Lofts move to suburbia.
January 28, 2005... By Nancy Sarnoff, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Loft living began as a downtown phenomenon. But this hip housing trend is beginning to show up in suburbs many miles from the city center. Developers...

Houston Chronicle Moneymakers column.
January 28, 2005... By Nelson Antosh, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--COMING, BUT NOT TOO SOON -- FUEL CELL-POWERED VEHICLES: Air Liquide, one of the world's largest producers of industrial gases, recently announced plans to...

Houston Chronicle Loren Steffy column.
January 28, 2005... By Loren Steffy, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--NAME CHANGE SELF-INFLICTED: It's time for the Chronicle to change its name. "Houston" is far too parochial in this Internet age in which our news is read...

The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Karen Brune Mathis column.
January 28, 2005... By Karen Brune Mathis, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--ECONOMIST SEES THINGS HEATING UP: It's cold in Boston and Philadelphia, which thousands of fans are expected to flee for warm...

Landstar delivers strong 4th quarter.
January 28, 2005... By Mark Basch, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Landstar System Inc. Thursday reported higher-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings. But the Jacksonville-based trucking company also gave...

Retailers expect surge in television sales this week as Super Bowl approaches.
January 28, 2005... By Mark Basch, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Many Eagles and Patriots fans are having a tough time finding tickets to the Super Bowl, but perhaps they don't need them. According to...

Medicare increases the number of people eligible for implantable defibrillators.
January 28, 2005... By Alan Bavley, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--After two heart attacks, heart surgery and congestive heart failure that left him tired and weak, Joseph Napier knows a defibrillator implanted in his...

Liquidating trustee sues co-op's former officers and directors.
January 28, 2005... By Dan Margolies, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Former officers and directors of Farmland Industries Inc. entered into "ill-conceived transactions" that showed "an overwhelming abdication" of their...

The Kansas City Star, Mo., Jerry Heaster column.
January 28, 2005... By Jerry Heaster, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--'PRESSTITUTE' COLUMNISTS ARE NOT THE NORM: It's a bit uncomfortable for a columnist trying to make an honest living when revelations of government...

Housing industry hears 2005 forecast.
January 28, 2005... By Kevin Collison, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Kansas City area homebuilders should expect another good year, but rising interest rates probably will lead to a modest downturn from the record...

Two alleged mobsters arraigned in phone scam.
January 28, 2005... By Dan Margolies, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Two alleged New York mobsters were arraigned Thursday in federal court in Kansas City on charges of using Cass County Telephone Co. to defraud two...

UMB National Bank of America employees receive promotions.
January 28, 2005... By David Clouston, The Salina Journal, Kan. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--Two executives of UMB National Bank of America in Salina have been promoted, one to president and the other to a vice president's post, the bank...

County increases development funding.
January 28, 2005... By Heather Rutz, The Lima News, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 28--LIMA -- Allen County commissioners on Thursday approved increasing the county's payment to Allen Economic Development Group by $36,000. The development...