...guidelines might affect it and those who live at the lake. In some respects, the new buffers are bigger than the Midlands-based utility proposed. The company must also identify and come up with a way to replant parts of the shoreline and improve...

...materials and services in a wide variety of industries." Since its bankruptcy filing, the company - a joint venture of Midland-based Dow Chemical Co. and Corning, N.Y.-based Corning Inc. - has continued to be a key supplier of silicone for...

...posted a first-quarter profit Thursday that was six times that of last year, beating Wall Street forecasts. The Midland-based chemical giant attributed the gains for the January-March period to improvements in price, volume and productivity...

...technology that Dow intends to develop involves producing vaccine protein on the leaves of greenhouse-grown plants, the Midland-based company said. Fraunhofer USA Center for Molecular Biotechnology in Newark, Del., will help develop the technology...

...including the women, banks that hold Dow Corning's debt, insurance companies, doctors and hospitals. The Midland-based company filed for bankruptcy in 1995 after thousands of women started suing, claiming breast implants of Dow Corning...

...return, the state Consumer Affairs Department and a private group have agreed to drop out of a lawsuit against the Midlands-based utility. State utility regulators approved the settlement Tuesday. It still must be approved by the South Carolina...