Acquisition brings Guard's career full circle

Lisa Guard, owner of Specialized Staffing & Industry Recruiters, recently bought a company from the woman who launched her career.

“There was this synergy,” Lisa Guard, owner of Specialized Staffing & Industry Recruiters, said of her rapport with Diane Payne.

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Target ups ante in online delivery contest

NEW YORK — How much would you be willing to pay to get those diapers within an hour or so?

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Businesses showing discontent with Trump’s trade policies

Groups’ support of GOP in jeopardy

Steel rods produced at the Gerdau Ameristeel mill in St. Paul, Minn. await shipment. Last week’s flareup over the Mexico tariffs may prove to be a pivotal juncture. Less than two weeks earlier, President Donald Trump had lifted tariffs on Mexican and Canadian steel and aluminum, action that seemed to signal warmer commercial ties between the U.S. and its neighbors.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s aggressive and wildly unpredictable use of tariffs is spooking American business groups, which have long formed a potent force in his Republican Party.

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Judges' offices to get bulletproof windows

To be installed at service counters

Bids are being requested for bulletproof windows to go in the county's district judge offices.

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Wolf's staff promotes gas severance tax It would fund infrastructure, development projects

A severance tax on natural gas production that would fund Gov. Tom Wolf's proposal for $4.5 billion in infrastructure and economic development initiatives over four years would not harm drillers or dissuade them from further exploration, cabinet officials said Tuesday.

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Trump signals frustration with Fed's independence

He said it made 'big mistake' in raising rate

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump complained Monday that President Xi Jinping enjoys a major advantage in the U.S.-China trade war in that he controls China's central bank while Trump must deal with a Federal Reserve that is “very destructive to us.”

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Disc golf course set to open in Cranberry

Project was delayed because of weather

CRANBERRY TWP — Discs will fly Saturday when the township officially opens a new, much-anticipated disc golf course.

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Nissan slams Renault for its stance

TOKYO — Nissan chief executive Hiroto Saikawa criticized the Japanese automaker’s French alliance partner, Renault, on Monday for trying to block changes to strengthen corporate governance following the arrest of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn.

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Trump says tariffs still threat to Mexico

STERLING, Va. — President Donald Trump on Sunday dangled the prospect of renewing his tariff threat against Mexico if the U.S. ally doesn't cooperate on border issues, while some of his Democratic challengers for the White House said the last-minute deal to avert trade penalties was overblown.

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Nesbit sponsors expungement bill

Someone pardoned, acquitted would have records erased

State Rep. Tedd Nesbit, R-8th, introduced a bill that automaticvally expunge criminal records of people who have been unconditionally pardoned or fully acquitted of all charges.

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Will Trump’s tariffs start to add up?

Damage could threaten gains

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s escalating tariffs on imports to the United States could potentially imperil one of the most resilient economies in American history.