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New York, N.Y. December 16, 2009 At a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $405.0 billion, new construction starts in November dropped 9% from the previous month, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies.

Twenty-three schools in 11 rural school districts in Central New York will receive interactive video conferencing systems through a $469,012 grant from U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The Dr. Phil Foundation is donating $500,000 to charitable organization Little Kids Rock to help fund its new program "Little Kids Rock Across America," which works to restore, revitalize and enhance music programs in 10 cities across the country.

Scene & Herd: The latest Fox411... December 5, 2009 Fox 411 recently sat down with R&B's reigning diva Alicia Keys in Jay Z's dressing room backstage at her American Express Keep a Child Alive concert in New York City.

New building activity has hovered around $4 billion for two quarters running; city inks labor deals on future infrastructure projects.

Two Cortland residents and a McGraw man face felony charges following the investigation of a fire last week at a Cortland apartment building where two of the defendants live, Cortland police said.

In this March 4, 2009 file photo, Dr. Phil McGraw arrives for a taping of "The Late Show with David Letterman" in New York.

In this Nov. 11, 2009 file photo, a motorist pumps gas at the Super Petroleum gas station in Lawrence, Mass.

NEW YORK Nov. 5, 2009--Standard & Poor's Ratings Services will hold a telephone conference call on Tuesday, Nov.

NEW YORK Nov. 9, 2009--Standard & Poor's investment-grade and speculative-grade composite spreads tightened on Friday to 223 basis points and 703 bps, respectively.

Martha Morales, the evening supervisor at the Webster Apartments, a large, brick home to 370 women of varying ages and occupations, strode down a long corridor lined with identical doors.

My friends and I have formed our own "anything goes" club and one of the non-rules is why not have a banana split for dinner ? Our little cashmere mafia got started one night after a lengthy discussion over chardonnay, more chardonnay, chardonnay and appetizers about how we have all been brainwashed into thinking that one must eat certain foods for ...

The lead producers of the Broadway revival " Brighton Beach Memoirs " released a brief statement this morning about their decision to close the Neil Simon play tomorrow - " a week after it opened - " and to scuttle plans next month to mount the companion play, Mr.

Another BusinessWeek chief is not making the move to Bloomberg. Keith Fox, the magazine's president, will stay at McGraw-Hill , he told staffers Friday afternoon.

Ithaca Cornell Police are looking for a male who struck a Cornell student following a verbal dispute late Thursday evening.

Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center and its concert promoter broke off their operational agreement this week.

Whole of 2009 looks like it's off 7% By Michael Malone -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/26/2009 2:29:24 PM McGraw-Hill reported third quarter broadcast revenue to be $19.1 million in the quarter, down 23.6% from the same quarter last year.

As one longtime member of the Binghamton University Athletic Club, I fully support Lois B. DeFleur as president of BU.

The Nation has covered a few of them in its arts pages. I've got two here. The first was the story of Thomas Chatterton , an eighteenth-century writer who claimed to have discovered the literary works of a fifteenth-century poet priest named Thomas Rowley.

Ralph Stanley is one of the last, and surely the purest, of the traditional country musicians.