BEN DOBBIN

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Earnings preview: Kodak braced for slowdown

Photographic products maker Eastman Kodak Co. reports its results for the third quarter on Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.

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Earnings preview: LCD glass lifts Corning

Specialty glass maker Corning Inc. reports its results for the third quarter on Monday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.

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Corning buys Axygen Bioscience for $400 million

Specialty glass pioneer Corning Inc. said Wednesday it acquired laboratory equipment maker Axygen BioScience Inc. from American Capital Ltd. for about $400 million in cash to broaden its life sciences division.

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Shortline railroads keep American towns humming

After an hour of shunting rail cars aside, a 1964-vintage locomotive operated by Tim "Brown Dog" Carney nudges six hopper-loads down an embankment into a pasta factory. It's a routine delivery: 540 tons of semolina flour milled in St. Louis from durum wheat grown in North Dakota.

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Valentine's Day rampage suspect stands trial in NY

A nursing supervisor fired from two successive jobs amid accusations of sexual harassment went on trial Wednesday for a Valentine's Day rampage that left four people dead, including a former co-worker and her husband.

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DC Metro operator: Driver who died saved lives

The rookie operator of a Washington, D.C., Metro train saved lives by applying an emergency brake moments before a collision with another train killed her and eight passengers, the other train's operator said at her funeral Wednesday.

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Corning raises 2Q glass volume forecast again

Specialty glass maker Corning Inc. said Tuesday it is getting a big lift from rising sales of flat-screen televisions, most notably in China.

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Jiyai Shin gathers in a fifth LPGA title

A year after her mother died in a car crash, Jiyai Shin picked up the first of 20 victories on the Korean professional circuit while still in high school in 2005.

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Bausch & Lomb settles 600 eye fungus lawsuits

Contact lens maker Bausch & Lomb Inc. had an overriding reason for going private in 2007: It wanted to handle a devastating recall of its flagship lens cleaner, its chief executive said, "without a lot of outside distraction."

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The `underemployed' get by on fewer hours

Jody Taylor dodged the bullet twice in the past year when the industrial-coating factory where she works as a machine operator went through a series of layoffs. But her hours have been cut back to a four-day workweek.

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Kodak CEO Perez's pay falls 81 percent in 2008

Eastman Kodak Co.'s chairman and chief executive received compensation valued at $2.1 million in 2008 as the imaging company pared another 2,500 jobs and its digital overhaul lost momentum in the economic downturn, according to an Associated Press analysis of data filed with regulators.

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3 charged in NYC college student's drinking death

Three members of a banned fraternity were charged with criminally negligent homicide Tuesday for organizing a wild night of drinking that left a college sophomore dead of alcohol poisoning.

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Vintners, stores debate wine sales in NY groceries

As the Finger Lakes wine country's pale-yellow hillsides turn green, Scott Osborn is flush with excitement this spring over another long-awaited prospect: Selling his wines in New York's grocery stores.

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Constellation Brands to cut 5 percent of payroll

Constellation Brands Inc., the world's biggest wine company, said Wednesday it is cutting its work force 5 percent and lowering its profit outlook largely because of a drop in wine sales in Britain and Australia in late 2008.

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Smokey Robinson headlines upstate NY jazz festival

Smokey Robinson, Michael McDonald and Dave Brubeck will join 800 other musicians and singers performing at this year's Rochester International Jazz Festival.

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Corning CEO paid $7.5 million in 2008

The chief executive of Corning Inc., a specialty glass and ceramics maker, received total compensation valued at $7.54 million in 2008, almost 19 percent lower than in the previous year, according to a regulatory filing made Monday.

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Classic, high-def Lincoln photo resurfaces

Seated by a window in the Illinois state Capitol in 1860, a beardless, bow-tied Abraham Lincoln held still for 25 seconds for what would become a classic campaign portrait of the soon-to-be president. It was undoubtedly a personal favorite.

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A jolt brings Corning back to its research roots

By day, Kishor Gadkaree puts samples of a honeycomb-shaped filter into a miniature gas chamber that simulates the insides of a coal-burning smokestack.

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Teen charged with 4 killings in Rochester, NY

A 17-year-old high school dropout shot, bludgeoned or stabbed to death four people over the Christmas holidays, three of them in the home of a jewelry merchant, police said Thursday.

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Kennedy campaign takes page from Clinton

The start of Caroline Kennedy's "listening tour" was awfully hard to hear.

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Upstate NY dad drowns saving 2 sons after crash

A man whose car slid off a snowy road and into a 12-foot-deep pond saved the two sons he had been driving home but could not save himself, police said.

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Corning lowers 4Q profit outlook

Shares of Corning Inc. tumbled 7 percent Tuesday after the specialty glass maker lowered its fourth-quarter sales and profit guidance to reflect slumping demand for glass used in flat-screen televisions and computers.

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Kodak sues Samsung, LG over camera patents

Eastman Kodak Co. said it is suing South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. for infringing various digital-camera patents it obtained between 1993 and 2001.

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Court: NY killer ex-fugitive can't withdraw pleas

A former escaped inmate who killed a New York state trooper and wounded two others while on the run in 2006 cannot withdraw his guilty pleas and stand trial, an appeals court ruled Friday.

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NY serial killer Arthur Shawcross dead at 63

Serial killer Arthur Shawcross, who was serving life in prison for strangling 11 women in the Rochester area, has died at 63.

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