Staff report Ohioans filed 6,853 initial unemployment claims the week of Jan. 18-Jan. 24, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported Thursday. That was 20 more than the previous week. Ohioans filed 65,361 continued unemployment claims last week, which was 870 fewer than the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks said Thursday that it plans to open hundreds of new stores across the U.S. and add seating capacity at thousands of existing locations, doubling down on a strategy of emphasizing the company’s cafes as community hubs even as consumer demand for drive-thru coffee ...

Staff report Gas prices are 10 cents higher in Northeast Ohio this week at $2.898 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report released Monday. As winter weather grips much of the nation, the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded has gone up six cents over the ...

Staff report Canfield-based Farmers National Banc Corp. touted its 2025 results in releasing its fourth quarter results Wednesday. Farmers reported net income of $14.6 million, or $0.39 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to $14.4 million, or $0.38 per diluted share, ...

Staff and wire reports Kimberly-Clark Corp.’s board of directors on Tuesday declared an increase in its regular quarterly dividend to $1.28 per share, up from $1.26 previously. The dividend is payable in cash on April 2 to stockholders of record at the close of business on March 6, the ...

Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy — building a wall of tariffs around what used to be a wide open economy. His double-digit taxes on imports from almost every country have disrupted global commerce and strained ...