Stephen Majors August 26, 2008 - 12:27 a.m. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's transportation department pulled back on a plan to greatly increase fees on trucks that carry oversize loads, the third issue in a week in which Gov. Ted Strickland has tried to bal

Gov. Mitch Daniels was on hand Wednesday for the announcement that Golden Rule Insurance Co. plans to create roughly 220 jobs with a customer care center in Vincennes. Daniels says the Indianapolis-based company's plans should be a big boost for the Vinc

Soaring gas prices and weakening job prospects left shoppers gloomier about the economy in May, sending a key barometer of consumer sentiment to its lowest level in almost 16 years.

April 22 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's wages will probably rise as the ``pro-labor, pro-small business'' Democratic Party of Japan increases its political influence, Merrill Lynch and Co. said.

Dangling millions of dollars — sometimes billions — in incentives to big companies to become part of the latest megaproject is often the cost of doing business in the city's development market.