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Rochester’s online help-wanted advertising showed strong year-over-year gains in December, the Conference Board Inc. reported. Some 10,900 job ads were posted locally in December, down from 13,000 in November but up from 8,700 a year ago, a 25 percent increase. ...

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. closed on the $29 million acquisition of nearly 90 percent of Maryland Midland Railway Inc., the freight railroad operator announced Tuesday. Lehigh Cement Ltd., Maryland Midland’s largest customer, retains its 12.6 percent ownership of the railroad. ...

KeyCorp has completed its acquisition of USB Holding Co. Inc., parent of financial institution Union State Bank, adding $3 billion in assets and 31 branches to the company in downstate New York, officials announced Wednesday. The $547 million deal was ...

Snow fell across parts of New England for the third day in a row Wednesday, adding to last month’s record accumulations and closing schools, AP reported. Following the snowiest December on record, many areas of New Hampshire got about a ...

One day before the first presidential nominating contest, Barack Obama gained two points overnight and Hillary Clinton lost two points to deadlock at 28 percent among Democrats in Iowa, with John Edwards in a statistical dead heat behind them at ...

Pakistan on Wednesday pushed back its general election by 6 weeks to Feb. 18 following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, against the objections of the main opposition parties who fear a delay will work against them, Reuters reported. The killing ...

Factory production shrank in December for the first time in nearly a year as tighter lending conditions and a slowing economy took their toll, a survey published Wednesday found, Reuters reported. The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index, which had ...

KeyCorp has completed its acquisition of USB Holding Co. Inc., parent of financial institution Union State Bank, adding $3 billion in assets and 31 downstate branches.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. closed on the $29 million acquisition of nearly 90 percent of Maryland Midland Railway Inc.

Rochester’s online help-wanted advertising showed strong year-over-year gains in December, the Conference Board Inc. reported.

The town of Brighton is asking residents to reduce energy consumption by 10 percent.