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Bug Out branches out
MOSES LAKE — After a year of successfully fighting off bugs and weeds, Bug Out is expanding into helping things gr…
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Planned refinery by national park hurt by funding, lawsuits
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Anemic funding, alleged unpaid work and legal fights are hobbling developers of a proposed $800 million oil refinery near Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota.
Guardians of opioid-addicted kids seek to form class in suit
CLEVELAND (AP) — Guardians caring for hundreds of thousands of children born addicted to opioids since 2000 should be grouped together as part of the class action lawsuit filed by local governments and others again…
Christmas ransomware attack hit New York airport servers
COLONIE, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York airport and its computer management provider were attacked by ransomware over Christmas, officials said.
Boeing travails begins to ripple, 2,800 jobs lost in Kansas
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Problems for Boeing and its troubled 737 Max aircraft, which appear to be growing deeper, have begun to ripple outward with a major supplier announcing Friday that it will lay off more than 20%…
Stock rally loses steam after US reports hiring slowdown
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks wobbled in midday trading on Wall Street Friday after losing their momentum from the previous day's record-setting rally as investors digested a weak jobs report.
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Grains mostly higher, livestock lower.
\CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were mostly higher Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade.
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US adds 145,000 jobs; unemployment holds at 3.5%
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added 145,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate held steady at 3.5%, signaling that the job market remains strong at the start of 2020 even if hiring and wage gains have sl…
US job gains slowed in December to 145,000 as unemployment rate stayed at 3.5%
WASHINGTON (AP) — US job gains slowed in December to 145,000 as unemployment rate stayed at 3.5%.
Stocks rise as worries ease over Mideast, US jobs data looms
TOKYO (AP) — Global stock markets mostly rose Friday as worries receded that the United States and Iran might be stepping closer to the edge of war. Traders were instead looking ahead to U.S. jobs figures for clues…
GrubHub says currently no plans to sell its business
Grubhub says there is no process in place to sell the company, a day after media reports said the company was exploring its options as competition in the food delivery business grows increasingly competitive.
No sight of French deal on pensions as unions hold out
The French government and labor unions appeared far from reaching any compromise deal Friday in talks over a planned pension overhaul, with strikes and protests grinding on.