Dec. 30– SUNBURY– Sunbury’s floodwall along the Susquehanna River has been certified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, keeping the levee system accredited and homeowners from having to buy flood insurance.
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ARCHIBUS, Inc., the global leader in real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management software and services, announces its inclusion in Software Magazine’ s 29 th Annual Software 500 ranking of the world’ s largest software and service providers.
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has been advised that Barclay Corbus, Senior Vice President, Strategic Development, James N. Harger, Chief Marketing Officer, Andrew J. Littlefair, President and Chief Executive Officer, Warren I. Mitchell, Chairman of the Board and Mitchell W. Pratt, Chief Operating Officer and Corporate Secretary have entered into Rule 10 b5-1 Sales Plans to sell shares of the Company’s common stock to be acquired upon the exercise of stock options.
8 Committee members charged with helping to find the next Luna County manager are hush-hush on findings. 13 The American Civil Liberties Union reports it is pleased with progress to improve conditions at the Luna County Detention Center. 14 The search for the next Luna County manager is narrowed to seven applicants.
Dec. 30– The people who have relied on the Jonesville Fire Department for more than 50 years will soon count on Arlington Fire and Rescue to provide coverage.
Dec. 30– PELLA– As the Marion County Government begins its annual budget discussions, the struggle between possible tax increases versus a reduction in services to residents has commenced. The Marion County Board of Supervisors met in special session Wednesday morning.
The failure of Amcore Bank is expected to cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’ s deposit insurance fund $154.5 million…
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Dec. 30, 2011– Flushing Financial Corporation, the parent holding company for Flushing Savings Bank, FSB, announced that the Bank was one of the proud sponsors of the Best of Brooklyn annual holiday spectacular hosted by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz on Saturday December 17 th.
Plymouth Meeting, PA December 30, 2011. Health Advocate™, Inc., the nation’ s leading independent healthcare advocacy and assistance company, has been recognized in InformationWeek’ s HealthCare List of“ 12 Cool Tech Innovations Keep You Healthy” for its Health Information Dashbord™.
According to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the name change was set on Wednesday, the same day that North Palm Beach, Fla.- based Bankrate Inc. completed its $65 million takeover of the bulk of InsWeb, including its online insurance-quote business.
The Supreme Court of California has overturned an appeals court decision that ruled insurance claims adjusters are eligible for overtime pay, writing in its decision the Court of Appeal misapplied the substantive law.
Signs of this choppiness can be seen in key measures, such as our gross margin, cancellation rates and total deliveries each quarter in 2010 and 2011. We continued to see declines in deliveries and revenues during fiscal 2011, and our gross margin percentage decreased to 15.6% for the year ended October 31, 2011 from 16.8% for the year ended October 31, 2010; however, our contract cancellation rate of 21% in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 was consistent with more normalized levels, as seen in fiscal 2003 and 2004. Active selling communities remained flat at 192 compared with the same period a year ago and net contracts per average active selling community decreased to 21.3 for the year ended October 31, 2011 compared to 23.1 in the same period in the prior year.
The death of a Navy SEAL in an off-hours parachute accident last year occurred in the line of duty and was not due to misconduct, a Navy investigation found. Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler Stimson died July 16, 2010, while parachuting off a cellphone tower in Suffolk.
Irvine, CA December 30, 2011. “Combining our strong relationships with vacation rental software providers and insurance underwriters with the robust technology acumen and insurance relationships of our co-founders will provide a valuable set of solutions for our vacation rentals management clients,” said Brady Stump, co-founder.
Dec. 30– When the clock strikes midnight on Saturday, it will mean more than the beginning of a New Year for Tom Johnson. At that moment, Johnson will officially leave the Sissonville Volunteer Fire Department after more than a half century of service, including 30 years as chief. Asked how it will feel to be free of emergency calls, he answers swiftly, “I don’t know.
Placerville, CA December 30, 2011. Alight LLC, developers of Alight Planning financial planning software and the Planning Maturity Curve, today announced a strategic alliance with Proformative, the resource for corporate finance, accounting, and treasury.
KNOXVILLE– A former body shop worker at Toyota of Knoxville has filed suit against the Knoxville auto dealership, claiming he was fired and defamed for uncovering evidence in an insurance fraud cover-up benefiting former University of Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin.
Dec. 30– LEWISTON– Small but unexpected amounts of lead contamination have been detected in soil being excavated for construction at Artpark, Town Supervisor Steven L. Reiter said Thursday. Nevertheless, he said, regional state parks director Mark W. Thomas promised to keep Lewiston town and village officials informed about the construction.
Dec. 30– TWO WOMEN– a former mayoral candidate and a political neophyte– will be considered for Lackawanna’s City Council seat from the 2nd Ward, which becomes vacant when current Councilman Geoffrey M. Szymanski is sworn in Sunday as mayor. “We had a wonderful slate of people to interview,” said Francis G. Warthling, chairman of the Lackawanna Democratic Committee. “
