NORTH RIDGEVILLE -- To promote the $1.57 billion jobs stimulus package he signed into law June 12, Gov. Ted Strickland toured Kalt Manufacturing yesterday to learn where the future might lead for Ohio's struggling economy.

Keith King never imagined his 21 years in the catfish industry would culminate in him turning his back, perhaps for good, on the work he loves so much.

At the Blue Frog Grille in Marshall, manager Shawne Somerford says she keeps an eye on the schedule at the U.S. courthouse two blocks down. During trials, it generates as much as 40 percent of her business.

College seniors weren’t the only ones waiting by their computers and telephones for their admissions results: the undergraduates who applied to Harvard Business School’s second-round admissions found themselves in the same situation.

Some local small business owners say they feel stuck between compassion and the bottom line over the Assembly's passage this week of a paid sick leave bill. AB 2716 would require all employers to offer paid sick leave that would accrue and carry over to