IRON MOUNTAIN — After having much success at craft shows and farmers markets in the past year, Tom Laabs has moved his Lovebugdesigns.us business out of his living room and into the Downtown Plaza in Iron Mountain. For Laabs, a hobby gone out of control and a need for a career change led ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation in the United States dropped last month to its lowest point since it first began surging more than three years ago, adding to a spate of encouraging economic news in the closing weeks of the presidential race. Consumer prices rose just 2.4% in September from a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — TD Bank will pay approximately $3 billion in a historic settlement with U.S. authorities who said Thursday that the financial institution’s lax practices allowed significant money laundering over multiple years. Canada-based TD Bank pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit ...

IRON RIVER — Nathan Clark, owner of West End Home Furnishing, has a simple business philosophy: Deliver quality products at affordable prices. Clark is originally from East Jordan, which is near Petoskey in lower Michigan, and moved to the Upper Peninsula in 2001 to be near wife Katie’s ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — Ruble’s Rodent Removal recently joined the Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce, which celebrated the membership by hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Ruble’s Rodent Removal has been operating for 18 years. Their first five years mainly consisted of trapping nuisance ...

DETROIT (AP) — The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports reached a deal Thursday to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract. The union, the International Longshoremen's Association, is to resume working ...