Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:27 AM EST
Kodak's moment has come and gone.
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Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:07 AM EST
A high-tech helicopter has helped Sheriff Kevin Walsh chase down fugitives, airlift accident victims and spearhead search-and-rescue missions in the Syracuse region of central New York since 1999. In 2012, Air-1 could be grounded by budget cuts.
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Wed Dec 21, 2011 6:17 PM EST
The next-door neighbor of a woman who police say used a shotgun to kill her 10-year-old daughter, her disabled father and herself said Thursday the woman recently confided in him that she was suffering from a "very debilitating" illness.
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Tue Nov 29, 2011 3:51 PM EST
It's the end of the line for the Steuben Glass company, an American icon of handcrafted crystal for more than a century.
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Wed Nov 9, 2011 5:15 PM EST
A state police investigation has determined that a Michigan truck driver had ample time to avoid rear-ending a slow-moving tour bus on an upstate New York highway but failed to brake and died in a fiery crash that injured more than 50 bus passengers.
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Sat Oct 29, 2011 8:01 PM EDT
Picture this: Kodak — the company that invented the first digital camera in 1975, and developed the photo technology inside most cellphones and digital devices — is in the midst of the worst crisis in its 131-year history.
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Fri Oct 28, 2011 11:20 AM EDT
A former security guard already imprisoned for strangling a young girl in upstate New York in 1994 drew an extra sentence of 20 years to life on Friday for beating to death an elderly woman in 1988.
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Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:31 AM EDT
In a memorable Hollywood scene from "Risky Business," the 1983 comedy drama that launched Tom Cruise to stardom, a mother's prized Steuben glass egg goes missing from the mantelpiece only to reappear — imperceptibly nicked — in the nick of time.
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Wed Oct 5, 2011 2:31 AM EDT
Buffeted by foreign competition, then blindsided by a digital revolution, photography icon Eastman Kodak Co. is fighting for survival after a quarter-century of failed efforts to find its focus.
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Fri Sep 16, 2011 2:35 AM EDT
A suitcase and clothing purported to have belonged to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress and obtained by a World War II veteran from western New York have been sold at an auction for more than $5,000.
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Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:55 PM EDT
Cornell University is moving to eradicate risky pledging practices at campus fraternities and sororities to avert hazing mishaps like the one in February in which a New York City sophomore died after an induction ritual involving coerced drinking.
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Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:45 PM EDT
Richard and Rob Sands took their father's little wine company on a two-decade buying binge, turning a regional purveyor of low-pedigree plonk into an alcoholic-drinks powerhouse with moderately priced wines, spirits and imported beers like Robert Mondavi, Svedka and Corona Extra.
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Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:01 AM EDT
Innovation turned Eastman Kodak Co. into one of the world's most recognizable brands. Imitation by its rivals might help keep the picture-taking pioneer from fading into history.
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Mon May 30, 2011 12:24 PM EDT
At Image City Photography Gallery, Gary Thompson delights in pointing out qualities of light, contrast and clarity in one of his best-selling prints — a winter-sunset view of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan peak shot with a hefty Pentax film camera he bought in 1999 for $1,700.
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Mon Jan 24, 2011 1:28 PM EST
Eastman Kodak Co., the iconic maker of cameras, film and printers, reports its fourth-quarter results before the stock market opens Wednesday.
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Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:16 PM EST
Alfred E. Kahn, who presided over the historic deregulation of the airline industry during the Carter administration, paving the way for JetBlue and other low-cost carriers, died Monday. He was 93.
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Mon Nov 22, 2010 6:03 AM EST
Don McNelly had to pull out of a marathon last week in Harrisburg, Pa., after only 12 miles.
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Fri Oct 29, 2010 1:24 PM EDT
Corning Inc., the world's biggest maker of glass for flat-panel televisions and computers, reports its third-quarter results before the stock market opens Monday.
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Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:21 PM EDT
Cornell University said Thursday it's getting $80 million from one of its alums for a far-ranging research center to create more efficient and less harmful practices in energy, agriculture, medicine and other dynamic arenas in economic development.
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Tue Sep 14, 2010 5:50 PM EDT
A strike at a Mott's apple juice plant in western New York has been settled by a new labor contract between owner Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. and a union representing about 300 workers.
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Tue Sep 14, 2010 5:23 PM EDT
A nearly four-month-long strike at a Mott's apple juice plant in western New York has been settled by a new labor contract between Texas-based owner Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. and a union representing about 300 workers.
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Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:37 PM EDT
Two Cayuga Lake wineries captured New York's most coveted wine awards Tuesday: A $17 sparkling wine from Swedish Hill Winery was voted best wine, and Sheldrake Point Vineyard took the best winery title for the second straight year.
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Sun Aug 8, 2010 12:35 PM EDT
Criminologists call it murder by proxy — rampages by employees who go after their boss, supervisors and even co-workers they link to the source of their outrage. The message is: Look who's doing the firing now.
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Sun Aug 1, 2010 2:14 PM EDT
An ultra-strong glass that has been looking for a purpose since its invention in 1962 is poised to become a multibillion-dollar bonanza for Corning Inc.
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Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:17 PM EDT
Constellation Brands Inc.'s CEO and president drew compensation valued at $6.77 million in fiscal 2010 as the world's biggest winemaker adjusted to sluggish sales of alcoholic drinks in a choppy economy, according to an Associated Press analysis of a regulatory filing Friday.
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