Mary Shannon

GROVE CITY The Grove City Medical Center added a new wound care specialist at the Center for Wound Healing.

Mary Shannon of Chicora is the only registered nurse practitioner in Western Pennsylvania who is certified in wound care. She works in the Penn North Centers for Advanced Wound Care clinics, including the clinic at Grove City Medical Center.

In addition to her new post, Shannon is enrolled in a clinical doctorate program at Robert Morris University this fall.

CRANBERRY TWP The Butler County Manufacturing Consortium will meet at noon April 15 at Domenico's Restaurante, 20550 Route 19.This is a change in meeting location for this group that is open to all manufacturers in the county.For information, call Jim Ferguson at 724-352-1507, Ext. 285.

Harrisburg Slippery Rock University will offer a new master's degree in criminal justice.The Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education last week approved the new degree.SRU's new criminal justice degree will be offered online beginning in fall 2010. Designed to comply with standards established by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, it will provide graduate-level training to working professionals in the criminal justice system.The board also approved a Master of Education degree at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in graphic design at Cheyney University.

WASHINGTON Consumer borrowing plunged more than expected in February as Americans cut back their use of credit cards by a record amount.The Federal Reserve said Tuesday consumer borrowing dropped at an annual rate of $7.48 billion in February, or 3.5 percent, from January. Wall Street economists expected borrowing to slide by only $1 billion, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.The decline was led by a record drop in borrowing on credit cards, which fell at an annual rate of $7.8 billion, or 9.7 percent. That is the sharpest drop in dollar terms since federal records began in 1968, and the steepest percentage fall since 1978.