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Paul O’Dette, professor of lute at the Eastman School of Music and an internationally respected performer and scholar of Renaissance and Baroque music, has received his fifth Grammy Award nomination. O’Dette, who won a Grammy in 1996, will face two ...

Low-fare bus company NeOn has added stops at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport and Henrietta on its New York to Toronto route, officials announced Thursday. The company is a joint operation of Greyhound Lines Inc., Adirondack Transit Lines Inc. and ...

Requests for proposals were issued Thursday for the potential sale and renovation of the Midtown Tower, city of Rochester officials said.

Requests for proposals were issued Thursday for the potential sale and renovation of the Midtown Tower, city of Rochester officials said. City officials are exploring possible uses for the building as part of the Midtown Plaza redevelopment project. “This tower ...

Pictometry International Corp. has inked an international technology license agreement with Civis Information Technologies of Ciudad Victoria, Mexico.

France’s state-controlled power company, Electricite de France S.A., wants to buy half of Constellation Energy Group Inc.’s nuclear generation and operation business—including the R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant in Wayne County—for $4.5 billion, the company said Wednesday.

EastView Mall LLC is getting a facelift expected to cost between $53 million and $57 million. Ontario County Industrial Development Agency and the mall’s owners, Wilmorite Management Group, announced the five- to seven-year investment plan Wednesday. Wilmorite will invest roughly ...

EastView Mall LLC is getting a facelift expected to cost between $53 million and $57 million. Ontario County Industrial Development Agency and the mall’s owners, Wilmorite Management Group, announced the five- to seven-year investment plan Wednesday.

A delegation from Rochester Institute of Technology will travel next week to Hamamatsu, Japan, to meet with dignitaries in a Sister City cultural exchange.

The Labor Department said Wednesday that productivity rose at an annual rate of 1.3 percent in the July-September quarter, AP reported. That is down from the 3.6 percent growth rate in the second quarter, but slightly higher than the 1.1 ...

Internet research company comScore Inc. said Wednesday that online sales spiked 15 percent to $846 million on “Cyber Monday,” AP reported. The National Retail Federation in 2005 named the day to describe the surge in online spending when customers returned ...

Harvard officials say the university’s endowment, the nation’s largest, lost roughly 22 percent of its value, or $8 billion, in the four months since the end of the last fiscal year, AP reported. The endowment was worth $36.9 billion as ...

A delegation from Rochester Institute of Technology will travel next week to Hamamatsu, Japan, to meet with dignitaries in a Sister City cultural exchange. On behalf of Mayor Robert Duffy, a 1993 RIT alumnus, school President William Destler will present ...

France’s state-controlled power company, Electricite de France S.A., wants to buy half of Constellation Energy Group Inc.’s nuclear generation and operation business—including the R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant in Wayne County—for $4.5 billion, the company said Wednesday. The offer is ...