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SOUTH BEND - Dollar General will host a career fair at its store at 2931 Portage Road on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is one of about 170 such job fairs the company is holding nationwide. Dollar General representatives will be present to...

Faced with rising costs and unrelenting pressure to improve its performance, McDonald's is tinkering with aspects of its vaunted Dollar Menu, testing a price increase for its McDouble sandwich and add-on options like bacon on the McChicken sandwich for an...

Riding a wave of increased auto sales, a weakening Japanese yen and a fresh lineup of vehicles, Toyota Motor's profits more than tripled during its most recent fiscal year. The Japanese automaker said earnings for the fiscal year ended March 31 rose...

Toyota's quarterly profit more than doubled to 313.9 billion yen ($3.2 billion) as cost cuts and better sales worked with a weakening yen to add momentum to the automaker's comeback. Toyota Motor Corp., which last year reclaimed the title of world's...

HOOVERSVILLE — Years after its only supermarket closed, the borough will have a new Family Dollar store by the fall. Family Dollar is building a new, 8,000-square-foot store along Barn Street (Route 403) and plans to employ as many as 10 people,...

The latest suburban scourge is worse than noisy neighbors, poorly-timed streetlights or rush-hour road construction. Dollar stores are spreading like kudzu across Central Florida. Family Dollar. Dollar General. Dollar Tree. They're strangling the...

Japan's central bank took a massive bet to reset its economy and pull out of nearly two decades of deflation. The Bank of Japan announced an aggressive and ambitious plan Thursday to expand its purchase of long-term bonds and double the amount of...

WASHINGTON -- The bailout of Cyprus -- if it can be called that -- bore all the trappings of Europe's standard response to its economic crisis. The last-minute, melodramatic rescue was complex, contentious and controversial. Decisions were taken that, for...

What's a Slovenian with several hundred thousand euros in the bank supposed to do? Spread it out among at least a few different banks, that's what. Or move the money out of the country, while it's still possible. Imagine what must be on the minds of...

It’s being marketed as a one-time tax -- a civic donation to the nation’s financial stability. But the people of Cyprus know it by another name: expropriation. A government plan to siphon as much as 10% from individual bank deposits to co-...

LONDON (AP) — Stocks around the world fell sharply Monday as investors gave their initial verdict to a weekend plan to tax depositors in Cypriot banks as part of a bailout of the Mediterranean island nation. Though Cyprus only accounts for...

What if we told you that something absolutely incredible — the inflation-fighting phenomenon known as the dollar store — could get even better. Hogwash, some of you are probably thinking. Well we've got some advice from Irene Sabo in...