NEW YORK (CNN) – Macy’s plans to fill 78,000 temporary positions – an early Christmas gift for job seekers. The retailer says it needs the new employees to staff Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s stores, call centers, distribution centers and warehouses for the holiday season. In total, the company is planning to hire 4 percent more workers […]
WASHINGTON — Young adults are the recession’s lost generation. In record numbers, they’re struggling to find work, shunning long-distance moves to live with mom and dad, delaying marriage and raising kids out of wedlock, if they’re becoming parents at all. The unemployment rate for them is the highest since World War II, and they risk […]
GARFIELD HEIGHTS, OH (WOIO) – Rusted steel, chipping and cracking concrete. Miles and miles of sound barriers around Cleveland that don’t need to be broken, they’re falling apart on their own. “Obviously, there’s disappointment. Many of these walls were expected to last 20 years. We got close to 15 years,” Jackie Shafer with ODOT said. […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason announced that eight defendants were indicted for failure to pay child support. These eight defendants owe a combined $169,524.74 in child support. The charge of criminal non-support is a fifth degree felony which carries a maximum sentence of one year in prison. These indictments are a […]
STRONGSVILLE, OH (WOIO) – The rapper accused of creating a flash mob at Southpark Mall on Saturday paid his fine and resolved the matter without stepping foot inside a courtroom. Colson Baker, aka Machine Gun Kelly, was scheduled to appear in Strongsville Mayor’s Court Thursday. Instead, Baker sent over the payment for his ticket on […]
Employees of Flavor Flav‘s Chicken say their paychecks are bouncing all over town, but Flav says the disgruntled people are just “jealous” and want him out of town. A number of people told WQAD in Clinton, IA they couldn’t cash their checks, with one being for only $150. Flav himself said, “It’s not true information, […]