Retraining

More than a dozen Somerset County Workshop clients who helped with the county recycling program were recognized this week by the commissioners with certificates and warm words. Many of the recipients held their certificates in the air for all to see....

Lindsey Implement Inc., a 23-year-old farm equipment dealership in Williston, N.D., is closing next month -- partly because of the oil boom, partly because of competition from multi-location dealer networks. Owner Gary Lindsey, 57, started the company...

PLYMOUTH -- Indiana Department of Child Services officials report that they found inadequate staffing levels for children at the psychiatric facility Michiana Behavioral Health on March 20, following up on issues raised by former employees about...

A man who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon bombings described on Friday how he locked eyes with one of the bombing suspects minutes before the twin explosions took place near the finish line. “I was with my girlfriend’s roommates and...

50 years ago Fire guts Morgan's Cigar Store Petoskey firemen battled heavy smoke and flames from 10:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m. to bring a fire under control at Morgan's Cigar Store on Michigan Street. Fire was confined to one portion of the pool and card room...

The second Eddie's of Roland Park store opened Sept. 22, 1992, so the store's 20th anniversary was actually last fall. But the store on North Charles Street is celebrating its 20th year officially April 13. "Spring is a nice time," owner Nancy Cohen...

 Brandon Lemer, the New Tec executive director, has resigned his position to take a job as the president and CEO of the North Dakota Make A Wish Foundation in Fargo, N.D.  His last day at New Tec is May 12.  Lemer had been at New Tec since October. He...

An Oak Brook health care company and its Roman Catholic owners who don't want to include birth control in their employees' benefits still have no choice, despite exceptions to the contraception mandate proposed by the Obama administration this month....

Nothing short of a miracle — or a sudden onset of rational behavior inside the Capital Beltway — is going to prevent mandatory, across-the-board federal spending cuts from going in effect Friday. It's also clear the public sector workforce...

This is one in an occasional series of stories about findings and recommendations in the Hagerstown and Washington County Economic Development Strategic Plan. Sunday’s story looks at information contained in the study about workforce development....

SOUTH BEND -- Driving to his company's Granger office one day, Niel Makielski noticed the telephone poles along the road seemed to be warping as he passed them. The chief of his company's small maintenance department and a "fix-it" guy all his life,...

One of the best experiences of my life was watching Jamie Smith, a young man with autism, leave his routine in Chicago, travel to the Special Olympics World Games in the chaotic Chinese city of Shanghai — and succeed. Jamie's success -- managing in...