Ice cream chain to close 150 restaurants nationwide
Friendly Ice Cream Corp plans immediate closures of 80 units and 70 more over two years, citing weak sales and profitability. The 1999 revenue stood at 709 million with an expected 18 million pretax write down and 12 million restructuring charge in Q1, plus 8 million pretax savings from reorganizing field and HQ operations. Closures include 27 in New York, 12 in Connecticut and 11 in Massachusetts and Ohio, with several in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Rhode Island, Florida, New Hampshire, Virginia, and Vermont.
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Friendly Ice Cream Corp
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Maryland
Rhode Island
Florida
New Hampshire
Virginia
Vermont
Grove City Trade Show at High School Thursday
More than 80 businesses will display wares at the Grove City Trade Show from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Grove City High School. Vendors gift items and services will be shown including emergency management and retail displays. Admission is free and door prizes will be awarded. Sponsored by the Grove City Area Chamber of Commerce.
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Grove City
Grove City High School
Grove City Area
Sovereign faces backlash over Fleet switching policy
Sovereign Bancorp expanded into New England as Fleet and BankBoston branches spread. customers were told they could not open accounts if switching banks due to a merger clause. State officials and Connecticut Attorney General probe the policy. Fleet offers possible policy revision while Sovereign prepares to complete remaining branch conversions by summer.
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BankBoston
Sovereign
Paul Tavares
Connecticut
Richard Blumenthal
Dan McClatchy
Smithfield
James Mahoney
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
U.S
Citizens
John Hamill
Sovereign New England
Hamill
Kevin Mukin
Bob Gormley
Sovereign Bank New England
Boston
Market quotes from New Castle Parker Hunter office
Over the counter stocks list bid prices as of 10 27 am today with figures supplied by the New Castle office of Parker Hunter Inc.
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New Castle
Parker/Hunter Inc
protest over closing of Allegheny General birthing center
About 100 mothers protested the planned closing of the Midwife Center at Allegheny General Hospital, arguing it provides a lower cost birth option and a home like setting for uncomplicated deliveries. Hospital cites financial reasons and job losses as factors in the closure.
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Pittsburgh
Alisa Dix
Allegheny General Hospital
Allegheny Midwives
Dix
Allegheny General
West Penn Hospital
Tom Chakurda
Anne Bradford
Allegheny General Center
Bradford
Gina Harps
America College of Nurse- Midwives
Train slams into Georgia school bus killing two children
In Tenn and Ga near the state line a CSX train struck a Murray County school bus carrying seven children to Northwest Elementary. Two eight year olds died and five were injured, two critically, as the bus split in two and the cab rolled along the tracks. Rescue efforts followed with helicopters transporting victims to Erlanger Medical Center.
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Tennga
Dana Keeton
Tennessee Highway Patrol
Murray County
Northwest
Chatsworth
Polk County
Tenn
Keeton
CSX
Tennessee
Georgia
Joe Brown
Erlanger Medical Center
Chattanooga
Carolyn Peak
Veronica Ownby
Ownby
Zachary Matthews
Woman reports kidnapping attempt on Croton Avenue
A New Castle woman told police she was kidnapped Sunday afternoon near Croton Avenue by a man who grabbed her throat and forced her into a car. He commented on her appearance and grabbed her chest during the drive but did not threaten sexual assault. She escaped when the vehicle stopped on Cascade Street.
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New Castle
Croton Avenue
Crawford Avenue
Cascade Street
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