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A stationary front over central Ohio and southwestern Pennsylvania this morning will begin to lift northward as a warm front this afternoon.A High pressure should keep much of the area dry today, but an isolated storm cannot be ruled out late this afternoon, especially across the western southern tier.A Highs this afternoon in Buffalo will top out ... (more)

NIHON OXIRANE Co., Ltd is a chemical manufacturing company. The company is specialized in the production and commercialization of propylene oxide and styrene monomer .

According to the St. Louis Business Journal , Monsanto Co. "has agreed to buy Precision Planting Inc., a planting technology developer, in a deal worth up to $250 million." Illinois-based Precision Planting specializes in developing hardware, software, and after-market production equipment to help farmers analyze and boost yield and productivity.

Share/BookmarkLast week, CAL FIRE/Riverside County Fire Chief John R. Hawkins received approval from the Riverside County Board Supervisors to close seven hiking areas throughout Riverside County.

It's "Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day" and, judging by the boss emeritus's amazing link round-up , pretty much everybody has.

A genetically modified strain of maize created by the notorious American company Monsanto has been temporarily banned in France "to protect the environment." This comes at a time of protests against the biotech giant in its homeland.

Heinz : Heinz announced a significant change in strategy, and will invest $70 million in marketing efforts in both developed and developing countries.

The federal government is raising the monetary threshold for a review of a foreign takeover of a Canadian company to $1 billion from $330 million over a four-year period.

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel , one standout is the Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF where we have detected an approximate $32.3 million dollar outflow - that's a 1.6% decrease week over week .

The Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame kicked off GuitarMania 2012 this morning, with ten foot guitars placed on display for the general public to see.

This years' three inductees into the Junior Achievement Newfoundland and Labrador Business Hall of Fame pose for a photo Thursday night.

Sydney Montgomery, left, and Erin Coverdale present a $200 gas card from WaWa April 20 to Toni Samonte, a teacher at H.O. Brittingham Elementary.

John and Leila Juracek's British friends tell them their 1929 Tudor Revival house in Baltimore's Homeland neighborhood is more like an English cottage than the country cottages in England.

The fate of US $ 245-million chlorinated polyvinyl chloride unit, proposed to be set up through a joint venture between billionaire investor Warren Buffet's firm, Lubrizol Corporation and Ahmedabad-based Astral Poly Technik Ltd, is hanging in the balance as there is no progress on the project since the announcement was made in September last year.

Sir Ron Brierley was narrowly re-elected as a director at the Guinness Peat Group annual general meeting.

Dow Chemical has been awarded $2.16 billion in damages by an international arbitration court over for a Kuwaiti joint venture that collapsed four years ago as the global recession took hold.

An arbitrator ruled Kuwait's state-run chemical company must pay Dow Chemical Co $2.16 billion for wrongly canceling a planned plastics joint venture in 2008, Dow said on Thursday.

U.S. advisers recommended against expanding the use of Johnson & Johnson's blood thinner Xarelto as a way to reduce the risk of new heart attacks and strokes in people with heart problems.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu observed Wednesday the DuPont Co.'s work on biofuels during a visit to the company's experimental station in Wilmington.

A defiant Sir Ron Brierley has come out swinging after narrowly surviving what amounted to a no confidence vote at the GPG annual meeting in Auckland.