Public officials say an agreement by package delivery company DHL Express to donate its abandoned airport in southwest Ohio to the region will boost efforts to attract new companies and jobs. State and local officials and DHL executives announced the preliminary agreement Tuesday in Wilmington, saying it should be ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (Reuters) - When Bob Hagan was a boy people hereabouts equated the coke dust they swept off their doorsteps each day with opportunity, for it came from the steel mills that built this city. After graduating from high school more than 40 years ago, Hagan worked briefly at one of the local steel mills that dominated the local economy ...

The federal government has come through with an additional $4.4 million to help workers in southwest Ohio hurt by the relocation of DHL shipping operations. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said in a statement Thursday that the funding will provide retraining and re-employment services ...

ZANESVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - More than a year and a half into America's worst housing crisis since the Great Depression, rising unemployment is pushing ever more homeowners in rural Ohio toward foreclosure. Foreclosure filings in the Midwestern manufacturing state rose 1.2 percent in 2008, but they rose 4.9 percent in counties of fewer than 50,000 people, according ...