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Hay now

MOSES LAKE — Klompen Farms of Royal City is this year’s hay growing royalty. Owners Bob and Anne Wieldraayer we…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
FedEx will shift final delivery of some express parcels

FedEx will tweak its operations by having its ground-delivery unit take over some deliveries from the company's separate and more costly express business.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Famed Seattle eatery pays $483,000 in wage theft case

SEATTLE (AP) — A venerable restaurant in Seattle's Pike Place Market has agreed to pay $483,000 to settle wage theft allegations.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Amateur basketball league founder says Avenatti betrayed him

NEW YORK (AP) — A Los Angeles amateur basketball league's founder told jurors Thursday that Michael Avenatti betrayed him when the lawyer threatened to make his complaints against Nike public.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Manfred, Mets say sale from Wilpons to Cohen is off

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred and the New York Mets say talks have ended over the proposed sale of a controlling share of the team from the families of Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz to hedge fu…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
How major US stock indexes fared Friday

Stocks closed lower on Wall Street for the first time this week Friday, but still notched their best weekly gain since June.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
US employers add 225,000 jobs, unemployment rate rises to 3.6% as Americans flood job market

WASHINGTON (AP) — US employers add 225,000 jobs, unemployment rate rises to 3.6% as Americans flood job market.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Barr's call for U.S. control of 5G providers quickly rebuked

NEW YORK (AP) — Trump administration officials, increasingly intent on preventing Chinese global technological domination, keep floating the idea that the U.S. government should take a more direct hand in running

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
How major US stock indexes fared Friday

Stocks closed lower on Wall Street for the first time this week Friday, but still notched their best weekly gain since June.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Healthy US job market: How big a political edge for Trump?

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. hiring jumped last month, and many more people were encouraged to look for work, showing that the economy remains robust despite threats from China’s viral outbreak, an ongoing trade war and …

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Software glitches force GM to recall pickups for 2nd time

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is recalling about 162,000 full-size pickup trucks worldwide for a second time because of faulty brake control software that was installed in a recall from last year.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Uber, AbbVie rise; Wynn, Myrian Genetics fall on Wall Street

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved heavily or traded substantially on Friday:

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Holiday on plastic: US credit card debt surged in December

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans gave their credit cards a real workout this past holiday season.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
No handshakes at meet and greet? Tech show adapts to virus

LONDON (AP) — A major European technology trade fair has a low-tech idea for reducing virus risks: go hands-free.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Economic impact of virus widens as Ericsson exits trade show

BEIJING (AP) — More than a month after the outbreak of China's deadly virus, the economic damage is being felt by more businesses and is threatening the outlook for the global economy.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
FedEx will shift final delivery of some express parcels

FedEx will tweak its operations by having its ground-delivery unit take over some deliveries from the company's separate and more costly express business.