By Jeff Gerth

As the financial crisis worsened toward the end of 2008, CEO Jeffrey Immelt and other leaders at General Electric repeatedly assured the public that there was no need to worry about the company's ability to access credit markets and refinance its massive debts as they came due. But in private conversations that alarmed then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Immelt laid out a different picture of GE's credit situation, according to Paulson's new book about the crisis.

Rockville Bank employees have donated 181 pairs of new shoes, sneakers and sandals to an organization called Soles4Souls, which is transporting donated shoes to earthquake-racked Haiti.

SBT Bancorp Inc., the holding company for The Simsbury Bank & Trust Co., has reported net income of $718,000 in 2009 compared to a net loss of $645,000 in 2008.

Cardiologist and medical internist Dr. Robert E. Lebson has leased 1,400 square feet of office space at 2440 Whitney Ave. in Hamden.