Program would not let bad actors evade punishmentrather it would provide a streamlined process with reduced penalties.

Although industrial employment in New York held steady in the last year, jobs grew 2.7 percent in upstate New York, according to the 2013 New York Manufacturers Registe, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers' News Inc. in Evanston, Ill.

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are returning to the sometimes-nasty rhetoric of a close presidential campaign after a brief truce, renewing their focus on two battleground states and preparing for next week's final, perhaps pivotal, debate.

Morgan Stanley said Thursday that its corporate clients are ready to do business but they're a little unnerved by the impending fiscal crisis.