EVANSTON - With the region’s jobless rate above 10 percent, the Midwest Regional Black Family Reunion Career Fair got a strong turnout Friday from people seeking work.

When Bluegrass BioDiesel opens at the end of the month, it will be the largest biodiesel fuel producer in Northern Kentucky and second-largest in the state.

Hair-care and skin-care maker Alberto-Culver has sued Procter & Gamble over Noxzema, saying the iconic skin care product that P&G sold it last year is defective.

Coolant Control Inc., a St. Bernard-based chemical management company, has been named a portfolio company of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber’s Minority Business Accelerator. The MBA now has 32 portfolio companies. The chamber launched the business accelerator seven years ago, mainly to help established minority-owned businesses grow by providing help with such things as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategy

Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky’s retail prices fell 2 percent in the first six months of this year, according to new Labor Department data released today.
It was the first time in at least 25 years that the price index has dropped.

More than 2,800 Nebraskans will share in a $148,625 settlement that the Blue Ash-based debt-collection firm agreed to pay because of questions about its practices.

Car shoppers running into shortages of certain vehicles at dealerships will still be able to use the Cash for Clunkers program to reserve the car of their choice, the Obama administration said Thursday.

The University of Cincinnati’s Campus Ministry House is offering a 13-week course called “Financial Peace University,” designed to teach attendees how to get out of debt, handle tuition, understand insurance, and achieve financial goals. The program, developed by talk show host and financial guru Dave Ramsey, focuses on stewardship and is not selling a product.

An Ohio lab that lost its contract with the state for DNA testing wants Gov. Ted Strickland to review a state agency’s decision to award the work to a North Carolina company.

In response to improved business conditions, Mohawk Fine Papers announced today it has recalled 14 people to the Beckett Mill in Hamilton.