WILLIAM D. HAILES, JR.(CAPITAL REGION)

BENNINGTON, VT -- William Duel Hailes, Jr., 72, a former resident of Rochester and Albany, died Friday morning, September 4 at the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington where he had resided the past three years. Born in Rochester on July 12, 1926, he was the son of William D. and Marguerite (Allen) Hailes, Sr. He attended Rochester Schools and obtained his Masters in Business Education from Rider College in New Jersey. For many years he had taught business at Rush Henrietta and Irondequoit High Schools in Rochester. He moved to Albany in 1963 to work for the New York State Education Department as a state advisor for the Distributive Education Club of America more commonly known …

Molecular chaperone inhibitor Phase I study shows promise.

LONDON -- The first clinical trial of an entirely new class of cancer drugs has delivered exciting results, including the first indication that it might be able to halt the disease in patients.

The Phase I trial assessed the safety and toxicity of a drug called 17AAG, which inhibits heat-shock protein 90, or HSP90, and found molecular evidence that the drug can inhibit its target in patients' tumors.

Two people with malignant melanoma who took part in the trial entered stable disease, where their tumors failed to progress. Those individuals lived for 15 months and five years while taking 17AAG, although the average life expectancy for people with late-stage malignant …

1 dead in N.H. storms that leveled several homes

Violent storms on Thursday in a 25-mile-long swath of central New Hampshire destroyed several homes, damaged dozens of others and left at least one person dead, authorities said as police and firefighters went door-to-door searching for more possible victims.

Other people were hurt, including the husband and baby grandson of the woman killed.

Gov. John Lynch said at an evening news conference that about a dozen people were injured. There was no immediate word on how serious their injuries were.

The National Weather Service was trying to determine whether a tornado was responsible for …

Plains farmers suffering: study

Across the Great Plains, the agriculture crisis is far moreenduring than the commodity-price catastrophe farmers have beensuffering through the past two years.

A new study documents just how severely the region's rural economyhas tumbled even as the nation has enjoyed nearly a decade ofunprecedented prosperity.

The study by the Nebraska-based Center for Rural Affairs, anonprofit rural advocacy group, shows that during the decade endingin 1997, widespread poverty, depressed incomes, slumping populationsand lagging job growth plagued rural areas in six Plains states.

This amounts to "longstanding, chronic conditions that nationaland state policies have barely …

CREATING GREENER DESIGNS USING AUTODESK REVIT.(Company overview)

Rand Worldwide (OTCBB: AVSO), a global leader in providing technology solutions to organizations with engineering design and information technology requirements, announced that a Building Information Modeling (BIM) expert from its IMAGINiT Technologies (www.imaginit.rand.com) division spoke at the Ecobuild America conference. Scott Burke, Building Solutions Team Manager, IMAGINiT Technologies, focused on how Autodesk's Revit Architecture software can be used for green analysis from the moment of design inception. The Ecobuild America conference was at the Washington Convention Centre in Washington, DC.

"By working with architects across the country, we're witnessing first hand …

SCHENECTADY MULLS IMPACT OF 1,400 LAYOFFS BY GE.(Main)

Byline: Tim Spofford

In Schenectady, the sky is not falling.

That was the message from urban planners, city officials, real estate dealers and retailers who assessed the economic impact of the roughly 1,400 layoffs announced Friday at General Electric Co.

They pointed out that since GE employees live and shop in communities across the Capital District, the city and county of Schenectady will not bear the full weight of the layoffs.

Still, GE's announcement was a sharp blow to the families of the 700 white-collar workers who will laid off next week, and to the 550 blue-collar workers to follow sometime between now and 1988. An additional 180 employees in the fabrication division will lose their jobs in 1987-88.

"If a person's job is eliminated, you …

EX-SECURITY GUARD ADMITS TORCHING STORE.(Local)

Byline: John Caher Staff writer

A former security guard who told police that he had set 30 to 40 fires since he was 5 years old pleaded guilty Tuesday to the October torching of the Boston Store at Latham Circle Mall.

Keith Alan Fitzgerald, 32, of 2267 Fifth Ave., Troy, admitted to Albany County Judge Thomas W. Keegan that he used a disposable lighter to ignite two pairs of corduroy pants and start a blaze that gutted the department store and sent the parent company into bankruptcy court.

Interstate Department Stores Inc. and Latham Investments Inc., citing the fire that kept the Latham store closed during the Christmas rush, on Friday sought …