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Gas prices in Rye are among highest in county, report says

RYE - Letter carrier Louis Salas filled up the tank of his mail truck at a Shell gas station on Boston Post Road and Purdy Avenue yesterday and watched his

Teen spenders feel pinch, too

The teenage shoppers who have traditionally made Friday nights at the mall busy with ringing registers are dealing with some very adult realities these days: recession and underemployment.

Wall Street’s credit crisis heads into second year

There are new signs that the worst of the global credit crisis is yet to come, and that banks and brokerages caught up in the market turmoil may lose $1

Business in the Burbs: NYSEG Web site allows customers to report electricity outages

New York State Electric & Gas Corp. electricity customers, which include 85,000 in Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties, can now report outages through the company's Web site.

New York farmers assess damage from hailstorm; local farms hit

New York farmers are looking for federal help after hailstorms battered young fruit and vegetable crops in at least 15 counties on Monday, including Westchester, Rockland and Putnam.

Lower Hudson Valley unemployment rates jump

Unemployment rates in the three-county region all spiked more than a full percentage point in May from a year earlier, the New York state Labor Department said. The number of

Foreclosure pace increases in Westchester, Rockland; slows in Putnam

The pace of foreclosure filings has picked up this year in Westchester and Rockland counties but has slowed in Putnam, data from county clerks' offices show. Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday

Expect to pay more green at the farmers market

As local farmers' markets and cooperatives start up for the season, growers say they have no choice but to pass along a portion of their own higher expenses in gasoline,

Home on concrete piers going up in Mamaroneck flood zone

MAMARONECK - In light of last year's devastating floods, the idea of building a new house a few hundred feet away from the Sound Shore might seem nuts.

U.S., China report no major economic breakthroughs

Top finance officials from the United States and China pledged greater cooperation Tuesday on a range of economic issues from dealing with soaring energy prices to coping with the global