METS EARN A SAVE IF A-C STAYS HERE.(Sports)

Byline: Staff and wire reports

Chants of "Let's Go, Mets" probably won't be heard in Heritage Park this season, but perhaps they should be.

The New York Mets will deserve a lot of the credit if the Albany-Colonie Yankees stay put after this season, and indications are that they will.

A baseball committee late Tuesday rejected the proposed move of the Double-A Yankees to Suffolk County for the 1994 season. The Mets opposed the transfer, citing that interest in their club could be reduced by the presence of a Yankees affiliate on Long Island.

The head of professional baseball's executive council said Wednesday the move wasn't rejected for a …

Proteome sciences, IDEXX enter deal to develop BSE diagnostic.

LONDON -- Proteome Sciences plc is making strides in its bid to commercialize its proteomics research, entering a licensing agreement that grants exclusive rights to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) blood biomarkers to IDEXX Laboratories Inc., one of the world's largest veterinary diagnostics company.

A company spokesman told BioWorld International, "We had people queuing up to do a deal with us. We chose IDEXX because they are the biggest." The terms were not disclosed but the spokesman said it was a significant deal including up-front and milestone payments and double-digit royalty rates from the Westbrook, Maine, company.

Developing a test around the …

Business events scheduled for the coming week

MONDAY, Jan. 9

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve releases consumer credit data for November, 3 p.m.

BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets French President Nicolas Sarkozy to discuss the eurozone debt crisis.

BERLIN — Germany releases export and import data for November and industrial production figures.

TUESDAY, Jan. 10

WASHINGTON — Commerce Department releases wholesale trade inventories for November, 10 a.m.; Labor Department releases job openings and labor turnover survey for November, 10 a.m.

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 11

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve releases Beige Book, 2 p.m.

BERLIN — Italian Premier Mario Monti meets Chancellor Angela Merkel …

Whitman unveils Bush's Great Lakes renewal plans

MUSKEGON, Mich.--Christie Whitman, chief of the EnvironmentalProtection Agency, visited this Lake Michigan city on Tuesday toannounce a Bush administration plan to clean up and restore the GreatLakes.

She said the plan addresses the most serious problems facing thefive lakes, including sediment contamination, the proliferation ofnon-native species, loss of habitat and the production of fish unsafefor eating.

The plan sets specific goals for the cleanup and calls on thefederal government to work more closely with state and localgovernments.

It includes monitoring contaminants in fish, requiring …

Driver held for forcing schoolgirl into his flat.

Byline: Badea Abu Al-Naja

MAKKAH: The Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Makkah arrested a man after receiving a complaint from a girl's mother that the man coerced her 10-year-old daughter to enter his apartment, according to a commission statement yesterday.

"The woman had an agreement with a man in the neighborhood to drive the girl to school every day," Abdul Rahman Al-Doalej, director of the commission in Makkah, said in the statement.

"On the second day while returning from school the man asked the girl …

TCBY AGREES TO $140M BUYOUT.(BUSINESS)

Byline: -- Associated Press

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Want some yogurt with those cookies? TCBY Enterprises, which sells yogurt at 3,000 locations worldwide ranging from airport carts to stand-alone stores, has agreed to a $140 million cash buyout by an investment partnership organized by a firm that controls Mrs. Fields' Holdings. Mrs. Fields' owns Mrs. Fields and Great American cookies and the Pretzel Time, Pretzelmaker and Hot Sam Pretzel brands.

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Chattanooga, Tenn., Automotive Firm to Sell Two Downtown Buildings.

Byline: Dave Flessner

Jan. 12--Two of Chattanooga's most historic buildings will soon be sold as part of the liquidation of the city's oldest manufacturer.

North American Royalties Inc., the parent company of Wheland Automotive Industries which filed for bankruptcy protection last November, gained approval Friday to sell both the Dome Building and the old Carnegie Library Building in downtown Chattanooga. The historic buildings at Georgia Avenue and East Eighth Street have served as NAR's corporate headquarters since 1969.

"Both of these buildings are a part of the historic fabric of this community," said Mike McGauley, president of Fidelity Trust …