No bids for hotel

No bids for hotel

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y.

Several potential buyers showed up at the foreclosure auction of a landmark hotel in downtown Niagara Falls, N.Y., but none was willing to meet the $1 million minimum bid set by the State Bank of Texas.

The 12-story, 193-room Hotel Niagara opened in 1925 and has had several owners, most recently Houston-based Amidee Hotel Niagara. The company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in September, two years after buying the hotel for $4.6 million and closing it for renovations that were not completed.

Pa. coal plant sued

HOMER CITY, Pa.

The federal government sued several companies Thursday over a coal-burning electricity-generating plant, calling it “one of the largest air-pollution sources in the nation” and asking the court to keep it from operating unless it meets Clean Air Act standards.

The Department of Justice lawsuit said the plant had been modified unlawfully, resulting in significant discharge of harmful chemicals into the air in Homer City, about 50 miles east of Pittsburgh.

Associated Press