The Ithaca College women’s basketball team moved to within one win of an Empire 8 regular season title Saturday, beating host Nazareth 80-62 behind 17 points and seven assists from senior point guard Katherine Bixby.

A participant in the Empire State Building Run-Up talks about the why of his 1,576-step climb, and even the how — dodge, don’t trample.

ALBANY — The state’s beleaguered Empire Zone program continues to purge businesses that receive tax breaks without creating jobs, announcing this week that 93 companies are being removed, including ones in Rochester, Yonkers, Elmira and Poughkeepsie.

EDE At the Board of Directors meeting of The Empire District Electric Company held today, the Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.32 per share on common stock payable March 15, 2010, to ho…

Filed under: Downloads , Patches , RTS , Strategy As we await the release of the second mini-expansion for Sins of a Solar Empire , developer Ironclad Games and publisher Stardock have released a new patch for the original space strategy game and its first expansion Entrenchment . The new update can be downloaded automatically via the Impulse client . The new patch invalidates all previous save …

Walters raced out to a 31-1 first quarter lead and went on to defeat Empire 66-21 to improve to 10-7. The Bulldogs fell to 5-13 in their first game back since the ice storm.

Had she not joined the presidential race, Senator Ma. Ana Consuelo “Jamby” Madrigal would be supporting the candidacy of either Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III or environmentalist Jesus Nicanor “Nick” Perlas.

I did try to sit through the Blair show. An unfortunate combination of Asiatic high emotion and feminine fragility made me feeble. I had to walk away, knocking over a large goblet of dark red wine, the colour of blood. It stained the beautiful wooden floor. From TB, then, the final words. I Did It My Way and Je ne regrette rien. So long folks. The Tory poster of Blair as the devil man now seems …

Polyus Gold, a precious metals empire owned by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, is set to expand into Kyrgyzstan. The group is the favourite to win a gold field development contract in Jerooy.

The Shepherds Bush Empire (the first word is sometimes spelled Shepherd’s) is a music venue in Shepherd’s Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, run by the Academy Music Group. It was built in 1903, as a music hall, and in 1953 became the BBC Television Theatre.