Employers

Gary Bacon spotted a Web designer job posting online several months ago and shot an email to a recruiter at Medifast Inc. But that was just the beginning. Bacon connected with a recruiter, Caitlin Goldstein, and the conversation moved to Twitter. They...

School board members hired several teachers and coaches for the upcoming year during a meeting Monday. The board hired Julie Johnson as a paraprofessional at a rate of $7.25 an hour. Board members accepted the resignation of health teacher and...

Carmel City Council asks questions about the bill for a private investigator hired by the city to follow the former executive director of the performing arts center.   Monday night, the council made the decision to table the invoices as a question over...

Clashes between Verizon Corp. and its workers have escalated as contract negotiations remain deadlocked and thousands of workers have been striking for more than a week. The company has trained current and retired managers to fill jobs, angering union...

The Chicago Sun-Times reports: Chicago will hire 111 bypassed black firefighters by March and pay at least $30 million in damages to about 6,000 other black candidates, under a settlement expected to be approved Wednesday by a federal judge here. Last...

The family of UCF football player Ereck Plancher has called 18 witnesses, hoping their testimony convinces a jury the UCF Athletics Association is guilty of gross negligence. Plancher collapsed and died on March 18, 2008, shortly after offseason...

It will cost the city at least $45 million to compensate thousands of African Americans who lost a shot at becoming a Chicago firefighter because of a discriminatory test, under a federal court order entered today that brings an end to 13 years of...

While the political adage holds that to the winner go the spoils, under Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, even some losers have done very well. Take Dan Seals. He failed three times to win a North Shore congressional seat, and his tax returns showed he mostly...

State Fair officials announced Tuesday that they have hired an internationally known engineering firm to investigate the stage collapse. After the stage collapsed Saturday, the State Fair Commission contacted Thornton Tomasetti on Sunday. Scott...

Allegations against me by Mary Thompson in her letter to the editor ("Trustee's conduct not professional," Mailbag, June 16) cannot stand unchallenged. The first allegation that my "lack of courtesy and respect to the board president was shameful" and the...

Thanks to an improved funding picture, the La Cañada Unified School District recently hired 30 temporary teachers, Supt. Wendy Sinnette reported at Tuesday’s school board meeting. The improved funding outlook is due to three things, she reported....

One of the nation's oldest freight lines announced Wednesday that they are expanding operations in Indianapolis. North Carolina-based trucking company Old Dominion is going to invest nearly $22 million to upgrade its facility on the west side. It also...