NRG Energy to idle Pennsylvania coal plant in 2014, six months early
NRG's Portland station is a 570-MW plant, located 26 miles northeast of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River. Other units at the station burn natural gas to generate power, according to the company's website. The agreement will be ...

Euromar Delivers Cocoa on NYSE Liffe After Factory Slowdown
Euromar slowed processing capacity “significantly,” resulting in excess cocoa beans, Peter G. Johnson, president of parent company Transmar in Morristown, New Jersey, said in an e-mail in response to Bloomberg questions. The slowdown was due ...

5/17: Deaths in Central Florida
JOSEPHINE THOMPSON, 87, Orlando, died Sunday. Woodlawn Funeral Home, Gotha. ALICE JOYCE HEALAN, 85, St. Cloud, died Wednesday. Fisk Funeral Home & Crematory, St. Cloud. SIM MO LANE, 90, St. Cloud, died Monday. Osceola Memory Gardens Funeral Home ...

Kane County law librarian loved to help others
Adella N. Wolff, a lifelong Elgin resident, former Kane County law librarian and wife to a former county board chairman, recently died at the age of 93. Wolff, who was the law librarian for 17 years, was remembered by friends and colleagues as a patient ...

Corporate Credit Swaps in U.S. Rise as G-7 Finance Chiefs Meet
“If you want to consider whether easing is helping sustain markets, then yes, it’s working,” Noel Hebert, chief investment officer at Concannon Wealth Management, which oversees about $250 million of assets from Bethlehem ...

Death Notices
EVERSON, Mary Ellen, 85, of Eau Claire died Tuesday at Dove Healthcare-West, Eau Claire. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon today at Fuller-Speckien-Hulke Funeral Home, Eau Claire, and from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. today at Erickson Funeral Home ...