There are enough transplanted New Yorkers along the Treasure Coast to know this is true.

A key indicator of the Inland Empire’s economic health showed a decline this past month, according to a recent report. The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) dropped from 60.9 percent to 50.2 percent, said the authors of the Inland Empire Report on Business for the month of June.

The memories of playing at Empire Stadium are still fresh for Nelson Martin.

Saskatchewan Roughriders kicker Luca Congi isnt anticipating much of a change in his first trip to Vancouvers Empire Field except the distance.

Due to an unprecedented demand for transit service following the Lions’ pre-season game on June 20th, TransLink has significantly boosted service to and from Empire Field on Lions game days, including great connections via Hastings Street along with service from the North Shore and the Expo and Millennium SkyTrain Lines.

The final bell is set to toll at Empire and Crowland Central schools. Trustees with the District School Board of Niagara made a somewhat expected decision at their last meeting in 2010 last week, deciding to close Empire in August 2011 and Crowland Central in August 2012.

Film projects born out of the childrens television empire are lined up like parade floats at Paramount Pictures.

They are young, gifted and posh, and fighting evil at a cinema near you. Most importantly, they are British. Hollywood has always looked to us for acting talent, but at last it is moving past the idea that the UK can only supply camp, supercilious villains. Instead, producers are casting quirky-but-dishy British boys as heroic, romantic action film leads.

The biggest fireworks show in the Capital Region kicks off Sunday at the Empire State Plaza , in Albany .

Kentucky senatorial candidate Rand Paul has told a tea party rally that the United States faces “a day of reckoning” in linking the nation’s economic woes to the decline of the Roman Empire.