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City Native To Lead Athletic Training Program

The Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine Teaching & Research Foundation has named Morgan Melquist as its program director for its OTRF Athletic Training Residency Program. As director, Melquist is responsible for training and overseeing athletic trainers participating in the annual OTRF ...

Sky-High Diesel Prices Squeeze Truckers, Farmers And Consumers

NEW YORK — When long-haul trucker Deb LaBree sets out on the road to deliver pharmaceuticals, she has strategies to hold down costs. She avoids the West Coast and the Northeast, where diesel prices are highest. She organizes her delivery route to minimize “deadheading” — driving an ...

Dire U.S. Labor Shortage Provides Opportunity For Ex-Prisoners

JACKSON, Miss. — When Antonio McGowan left the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman after serving 17 years, he was free for the first time since he was 15. But as an adult finally out from behind bars, he immediately found himself confined to menial labor. McGowan needed stable work, ...

Testa Named Hospice CEO

Mike Testa has been named CEO of Chautauqua Hospice and Palliative Care. Testa will succeed Kris Brombacher, who served as interim CEO during the search and who will continue as vice president of clinical services. Testa assumed responsibilities July 18. Testa comes to Chautauqua Hospice and Palliative Care with more than 20 years of managerial and leadership experience in health care, business administration and education. Testa relocated to Chautauqua County from Billings, Montana where he worked at RiverStone Health for more than nine years, the last two serving as vice president ...

Netflix Q2 Subscriber Loss Widens Less Than Expected

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix shed almost 1 million subscribers during the spring amid tougher competition and soaring inflation that’s squeezing household budgets, heightening the urgency behind the video streaming service’s effort to launch a cheaper option with commercial interruptions. The April-June contraction of 970,000 accounts, announced Tuesday as part of Netflix’s second-quarter earnings report, is by far the largest quarterly subscriber loss in the company’s 25-year history. It could have been far worse, though, considering Netflix management released an April ...

Forecaster: Stocks Can Fall More

NEW YORK — Early this year, with the S&P 500 near its all-time high, famed investor Jeremy Grantham warned that stocks were in a “super bubble.” Since then, their prices have fallen about 20%, and Grantham says they can still drop more. Grantham has correctly predicted the bursting of ...