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Jan. 31– YOUNGSTOWN– ValleyCare Northside Medical Center officials said the contract ratified Wednesday by registered nurses includes the same economic package made in the final offer to the union in August 2013. The previous Youngs-town General Duty Nurse Association/Ohio Nurse Association contract expired July 19, 2012. “We value all of our employees and…
Two bills before the General Assembly that sought to change the law are unlikely to pass this year after a Senate committee failed to act on one last week and a House subcommittee killed the other Wednesday. Proponents were hoping they’d get another try in the Senate, where the Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee was split 6- 6 on the issue.
Actors Gary Sinise and Jon Voight have starred in plenty of dramas- and now they’re living one, courtesy of the IRS. Nine years later, the organization, Friends of Abe, is 1,500 members strong- and growing. Desperate to keep its iron grip on Hollywood, the Obama administration is using any means necessary to choke off the opposition- including its favorite weapon, the…
Jan. 31– No hearing before the Howard County Board of Education in recent years has ever drawn more than 200 or so people– not even redistricting. But the board room Thursday, Jan. 29 was filled to the brim with more than 300 people, and across the parking lot another 150 or so watched via live-stream in the Homewood Center cafeteria as teacher after teacher criticized…
Cincinnati Financial Corporation announced that, at today’s regular meeting, the board of directors declared a 44- cents- per-share regular quarterly cash dividend, increasing from the previous 42- cents- per-share dividend paid on January 15, 2014. “Cincinnati Financial shareholders have consistently benefited from increased dividends in each of the…
Randy Eslick, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Commerce Holdings, a $951.5 million bank holding company and parent company of Redding Bank of Commerce and Roseville Bank of Commerce, today reported net income available to common shareholders of $2.0 million and diluted earnings per share from continuing operations of $0.14 for the fourth…
HAMILTON, Bermuda and TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Jan. 31, 2014/ PRNewswire/– White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. and Star& Shield Group announced today that the acquisition of certain assets and liabilities of Star& Shield Holdings LLC, including Star& Shield Risk Management LLC, by a wholly-owned subsidiary of White Mountains has been completed.
The FDIC issued a “prohibition from further participation order” against Hayes, based on his prior leadership role at Excel Bank, which failed in 2012. The order was dated Dec. 30, but wasn’t released by the FDIC until Friday. According to the FDIC, Hayes, Excel’s former president, “engaged or participated in violations of law or regulation, unsafe or unsound…
A new analysis shows Montefiore’s ACO generated substantial savings for the Medicare program, representing the highest financial performance among all Pioneer ACOs. “We are proud to be the top financial performing Pioneer ACO in year one and prouder still of the outcomes and experience of care we provide to our patients, their families and the communities in…
Jan. 31– Bill Crow’s 1965 Chevy pickup brings back memories of an age when they were no-nonsense workhorses. In fact, this baby-blue example is about as basic as it gets. This truck has been with him since 1971, when he bought it from preacher Jerry Mize.
The Pledge to Live United campaign collected $1,866,334 in the past five months, United Way volunteers learned at a victory celebration Thursday night at the Alden Club at Alden Place in West Cornwall Township. Kenny Montijo, United Way CEO and chairman for the 2013-14 campaign, atrributed the success of the campaign to the 4,000 employees who contributed…
The city of Bath and the towns of Arrowsic and Woolwich have spent nearly $150,000 to date defending themselves against– and counter-suing– the town of West Bath. West Bath is suing the three communities and Regional School Unit 1 in an attempt to recoup $1.9 million it says the town overpaid to the regional school district during its first four years as a…
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 31– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New York. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 31– Penn State Research Foundation, University Park, Pa., Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Ala., Cornell University, Ithica, N.Y., and H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Institute, Tampa, Fla., have been assigned a patent developed by six co-inventors for “5′,-…
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 31– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Connecticut. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 31– API Genesis, Fairfax, Va., has been assigned a patent developed by Philip J. Birbara, West Hartford, Conn., for “methods of increasing solubility of poorly soluble compounds and methods of making and using formulations of such compounds.”
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 31– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in California. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 31– Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent developed by 13 co-inventors for “aminopyrimidines useful as kinase inhibitors.” The co-inventors are Hayley Binch, Encinitas, Calif., Michael Mortimore, Burford, United Kingdom,…
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 31– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in North Carolina. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 31– DePuy Synthes Products, Raynham, Mass., and Affinergy, Research Triangle Park, N.C., have been assigned a patent developed by eight co-inventors for “compositions and methods for delivery of glycopeptide antibiotics to medical device surfaces.”
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 31– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Jersey. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 31– Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent developed by six co-inventors for an “engineered polypeptide agents for targeted broad spectrum influenza neutralization.” ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 31– LifeCell,…
