The plant last year produced 725 million square feet of corrugated container board - 25 to 30 tractor-trailer loads a day - for use in shipping in a number of industries. Company vice presidents, employees, retirees, friends and family members gathered Friday night at Sapona Country Club for a dinner honoring him, his career and his service to the business and the community. McNeill said management anticipated the decline of textiles and furniture 15 years ago and made a conscious decision...

Inspectors found at the June 2006 visit that the company was not properly maintaining some air pollution control devices and was failing to monitor and record required information on some units such as water flow rates, pressure and temperature, DEP regional director Joseph Feola said. Inspectors found at the June 2006 visit that the company was not properly maintaining some air pollution control devices and was failing to monitor and record required information on some units such as water...

And by the end of the night, they had congratulated and welcomed and mourned their way through 107 resolutions marking the passage of time in ordinary lives. One rainy night this month, as Cambridge's nine city councilors went about their business of investigating stinky sewers and faulty street lights and costly electric rates, they also wished William Daley a happy 75th birthday. Cambridge councilors are famous -- or infamous, depending on who's talking -- for passing resolutions about...

Johnathan Stubbs, 11, of Greenville, said he did not name the pig he entered because when he was younger he used to cry when he had to sell his market pigs to a butcher. But, most kids entering the competition seemed to have names for their market pigs. AP content may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. By Janelle Stecklein Herald-Banner Staff Monica Williams sat proudly on a fence showing off Slinky to everyone Wednesday night, while her sister, Melanie stood nearby...

INDONESIAN police have arrested the suspected ringleader of a people smuggling operation accused of trying to bring 83 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to Australia earlier this year. A NEW Zealand ombudsman has recommended sweeping changes to the way prisoners are transferred after a teenager was killed by another inmate in the back of a prison van. NINE people were killed when a bomb exploded aboard a bus in the southern Philippine town of Bansalan today, a military report said. INDONESIA'S...