Workers and management at a New York wholesale produce market, the nation’s largest, have reached a tentative agreement on a contract, averting a walkout.

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Lee Enterprises Inc. has announced that its chief financial officer will retire later this year.

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Declining crude oil prices have forced three major industry firms with strong northeastern Oklahoma ties to lay off workers.

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The Houston-based Prison Entrepreneurship Program began operations in 2004 and operates now in the Cleveland Correctional Facility in Cleveland, Texas, with plans to open a second unit in a Dallas-area prison this year.

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Standing in a prison chow hall, Richard Chavez Jr. outlines his past: violent felon, former gang member, the fourth member of his family to go to prison.

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Nearly $86 million has been awarded to four companies to support job creation and expansion projects in the state, the Iowa Economic Development Authority announced Friday.

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A small-town Ohio police chief who drew an outsize following with his blunt, frequently humorous Facebook commentary is resigning days after being suspended.

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The senator representing Democrats on the Budget Committee is vowing to fight efforts by Republicans to prevent money dedicated to paying retirement benefits from being shifted to the disabled.

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Nearly 2,000 people thronged an Oregon college auditorium for an appearance by the author of “Wild,” hours after a movie based on the best-selling memoir about a thousand-mile hike earned two Oscar nominations.

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Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget director said there will be “real” cuts to government services after economists agreed Friday that revenue is $289 million short of projections in the current state budget and $527 million below what was expected in the next fiscal year.

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