NEW YORK — After four days of deal-fueled spending sprees that kicked off on Thanksgiving, shoppers shifted their focus on Cyber Monday, which is expected to once again be the biggest sales day of the year for online retailers. Walmart was promoting up to 50% on fashion on its website among ...

Northeast of the capital city of Des Moines in central Iowa, the 400-student Collins-Maxwell Community School District is one of many across the state shifting to a four-day school week. Like many rural K-12 schools, the district has struggled to find teachers, and it sees the four-day week as ...

MARQUETTE— Jack Rantanen, the lineman who was killed on the job in August, is being honored as a friend supports a scholarship in his name. Rantanen was killed in an accident on October 20 of this year. "Jack Rantanen was struck by an inattentive driver and killed on the job during work here ...

NEW YORK — Despite wider economic uncertainty hovering above this year's holiday season, shoppers turned out in big numbers for Black Friday — spending billions of dollars both in stores and online. Adobe Analytics, which tracks e-commerce, said U.S. consumers spent a record $11.8 billion ...