LOS ANGELES — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose this week for the second week in a row, another setback for homebuyers facing a housing market that remains un...
A restaurant on the outskirts of Nairobi skimps on the size of its chapatis — a flaky, chewy Kenyan flatbread — to save on cooking oil. Cash-strapped Pakistanis reluctant...
LONDON — British antitrust regulators on Wednesday blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of video game maker Activision Blizzard, thwarting the biggest tech deal in hi...
FRANKLIN TWP — Ave Jack, of the Ellen O'Brien Gaiser Center, was recognized by the Butler County Chamber of Commerce as its Employee of the Year during the Employee Appre...
WASHINGTON — Toy company Mattel revealed its first Barbie doll representing a person with Down syndrome on Tuesday.
Mattel collaborated with the National Down Syndrome So...
DETROIT — General Motors and South Korea’s Samsung SDI plan to invest more than $3 billion in a new electric vehicle battery cell plant in the United States, the companie...
NEW YORK (AP) — Bed Bath & Beyond — one of the original big box retailers known for its seemingly endless offerings of sheets, towels and kitchen gadgets — filed for bank...
When parents talk with their kids at the dinner table, estate planning probably doesn’t come up. But considering we aren’t immortal, it should. It’s worth having age-appr...
Saxonburg manufacturer Coherent announced Friday that it is obtaining greater than 50% of its global electricity needs from renewable energy sources.
The laser manufactur...
The economic headwinds that hospitals and health systems across the nation now face are fierce. Daily we read media reports about the financial pressures impacting health...
