Layoffs and Downsizing

Just one week after touting its strength to advertisers and declaring it wasn't worried about new competition from Fox Sports, ESPN is cutting its staff. The moves are part of an overall cost-cutting effort by ESPN parent Walt Disney Co. Earlier this...

— After hours of backroom deliberations and deal making, the city council on Monday voted to cut $8.6 million from Mayor Pedro Segarra's $543.9 million budget proposal. The cuts include reductions of $2 million to the police department; $1...

Employees at Letterkenny Army Depot are facing fewer furlough days than originally expected — workers are looking at 11 days without pay rather than 14. The 11 days are down from the 14 that the Pentagon advised would be needed, and only half of...

CHICAGO, May 20 (Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc said late on Monday that it would resume contract talks with the union representing about 800 Milwaukee workers who make specialized mining machinery. The company said the two sides would reconvene on Thursday,...

(Andy Home is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own) By Andy Home LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - It was Alcoa that led the first round of aluminium production cutbacks in 2012 following a steady slide in the London Metal Exchange (LME)...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Department of Human Services plans a pilot project in three counties designed to keep children out of foster care and cut costs. The Detroit News reports (http://bit.ly/YUyuEx ) that the nonprofit Lutheran...

Valley View school board officials have decided to reorganize the district's administrative department, which will include some layoffs along with cuts in salaries and benefits. School officials said the changes will save Valley View Community Unit...

Northern Illinois University officials announced Monday that a longtime campus vice president who has been part of a federal law enforcement investigation plans to retire at the end of the month. Eddie Williams, 68, the university's chief of operations,...

WASHINGTON — As conferences go, this one was supposed to be pretty standard: a 7,000-person affair at the Orange County Convention Center that — although not among Orlando's biggest shows — still would have brought a $13 million economic...

SOUTH DAKOTA-SENATE Herseth Sandlin rules out run for SD Senate seat PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Former South Dakota U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin says she will not seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Tim Johnson. Herseth...

As Richard Hall and McGregor Madden traveled the country fitting clients with their high-end, custom-made suits, they noticed something strange — professional men yearning to look stylish nevertheless sported dress shirts with stains. Their young,...

If you’re waiting…and waiting…for an interview appointment to complete your application for the Global Entry fast-pass-through-customs program, help may be at hand. In a blog post Monday, I  explained that I had been conditionally...