"They spring up where they spring up. It's kind of like a teenager with acne."

So said Kirk Weston, director of the St. Clair County Road Commission, about the predictability of potholes. The randomness already has started, with several area roads bearing the cratered scars of winter.

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Hillenbrand declares quarterly dividend

BATESVILLE, Ind. - Hillenbrand Industries Inc. said Friday its board declared a quarterly dividend of 28.5 cents.

Brian Roberts could put Cubs over the top

One of them is one of the all-time great liars.

Baseball spring training camps open this month and some big-name free agents are jobless and might have to swallow some pride to prolong their careers and sign for much less than they're accustomed to. They include Barry Bonds, Armando Benitez, Mike Piazza, Kenny Lofton, Shannon Stewart, Livan Hernandez, Sammy Sosa, Bartolo Colon, Shawn Green, Corey Patterson and Tony Clark.

If they can't find jobs, Bonds, Sosa, perhaps Clemens and Piazza all would be on the 2013 Hall of Fame ballot. It would be a very impressive group if they all were "clean."

But Piazza is the only one who hasn't been accused of using performance-enhancing drugs.

Billionaire Rochester sportsman Tom Golisano over the weekend reiterated that he's prepared to do what he can to keep the Buffalo Bills in western New York.

Rail Transport 1991-2000

A fight flared up around Baltic Bank (OR owned 49.7% of the bank's shares), because Eurosib, which owned 24.5% of Baltic Bank's shares, had not repaid bank loans of $1.4 million and 55 billion rubles.

On May 14, Aleksandr Kuznetsov became head of the October Railway.

On May 27, the All-Russian Rate Convention and Conference of Railway Transport Service Users and Employees began. The "Support Agency" as railway men themselves called it, nevertheless became history: at the convention, Nikolai Aksensenko made the first announcement about the creation of private operating companies.

In July, President Yeltsin rescinded the decree " On the Creation of a High-Speed St. Petersburg-Moscow Main Passenger Line." The project departed this life, leaving Russian taxpayers with debts of $500 million.