A Louisville, Colo., telecommunications company has acquired Spokane-based Columbia Fiber Solutions.

Zayo Bandwidth, which provides network services to phone companies and businesses, plans to provide more fiber connectivity to regional customers, said Zayo COO John Scarano.

Columbia Fiber manages a fiber-optic network connecting 330 buildings and businesses in Spokane and North Idaho.

Terms of the purchase have not been disclosed.

The purchase is the second by Zayo of a Washington network service provider. Earlier this year Zayo acquired Wenatchee-based Northwest Telephone Inc.

Scarano said all of Columbia Fiber’s workers are invited to stay with the company.

Les Schwab says e-mail is false

An e-mail claiming Les Schwab Tire Centers fired an Eastern Washington store manager after uncovering a conspiracy to defraud the company is false, the company said Wednesday.

A Tuesday e-mail purportedly sent by the “Western Tire Industry News” to media outlets claimed that Prineville, Ore.-based Les Schwab “has recently completed a sweeping company-wide investigation involving corruption and fraud by several tire store managers.”

“There is also no factual basis to the content of the press release,” according to a Les Schwab statement.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.

AMC fined over child labor law

AMC Entertainment Inc. will pay a $141,570 fine for violating federal child labor laws.

The U.S. Department of Labor said Wednesday that the theater operator also agreed to display a child labor public service announcement on workplace safety in each of its 296 U.S. theaters.

The department said investigators in Missouri, New Jersey, Iowa and Louisiana found that some AMC employees younger than 18 were loading and operating trash compactors, which is prohibited. Also, some children were working longer hours than allowed by law.

Seattle

Starbucks execs won’t get raises

Chairman and Chief Executive Howard Schultz and other executives at Starbucks Corp. won’t receive salary increases in the next fiscal year, according to an internal memo sent this week.

The move is part of the Seattle-based coffee chain’s effort to cut spending.

All U.S. workers at the vice president level and above will not get raises for the coming fiscal year that starts at the end of September, the memo said.