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Briefcase: Kish Bank declares dividend

STATE COLLEGE The board of directors of Kish Bancorp Inc., parent company of Kish Bank, declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.40 per share. The dividend will be payable April 30 to shareholders of record on April 15. This dividend per share is unchanged from the previous quarter. Kish Bank, a subsidiary of Kish Bancorp Inc., operates 19 locations serving Centre, Mifflin, Huntingdon, Blair and Juniata counties in Pennsylvania, as well as northeastern Ohio. Bedford job fair set PA CareerLink Bedford County will host a job fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 15 at Jordan Hall, Bedford ...

Samsung discontinuing texting app

NEW YORK — Samsung is saying goodbye its namesake texting app. According to an end of service announcement published on the tech giant’s U.S. support website, Samsung Messages will be discontinued in July. Impacted owners of Samsung smartphones and other gadgets are being asked to switch to Google Messages in the meantime, “to maintain a consistent messaging experience on Android.” All Samsung Galaxy phones run on Google’s Android operating system. To switch to Google Messages, Samsung’s website gives users instructions to download the app from the Play Store, if not ...

Ticker: Stocks drift higher ahead of bombing deadline

The U.S. stock market drifted higher in tentative trading ahead of a deadline President Donald Trump has set to bomb Iranian power plants. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.5%. Like stock indexes, oil prices seesawed through the day amid continued uncertainty about what will happen in the war with Iran and how long it will slow the global flow of crude oil. China’s mining workers face changing industry As China runs away from the rest of the world in developing renewable energy, its coal mining industry is ...

From The Ground Up: Landscapers ready for busy spring season

With winter in the rearview mirror, area landscaping crews are embarking on what they hope will be a busy year. The colder than usual winter hasn’t had an impact on crews getting started but the cold and late season snow was beneficial to at least one business. “The colder winter had ...

SpaceX seeks to sell public shares

Elon Musk’s space exploration company has filed preliminary paperwork to sell shares to the public, according to two sources familiar with the filing, a blockbuster offering that would likely rank as the biggest ever and could make its founder the world’s first trillionaire. A SpaceX IPO promises to be one of the biggest Wall Street events of the year, with several investment banks lining up to help raise tens of billions to fund Musk’s ambitions to set up a base on the moon, put datacenters the size of several football fields in orbit and possibly one day send a man to Mars. The ...

US jobless aid filings fall to 202K as layoffs stay low

WASHINGTON — U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week as layoffs remain sparse despite a softening labor market and rising energy costs due to the Iran war. The number of Americans applying for jobless aid for the week ending March 28 fell by 9,000 to 202,000 from the previous week’s 211,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s fewer than the 212,000 new filings analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet were expecting and within the range of the past several years. Filings for unemployment benefits are considered representative of U.S. layoffs and ...