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Bottom Dollar Food to host job fair

warren

Bottom Dollar Food will host a job fair from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. today at Aulizio’s Banquet Center, 4395 Youngstown Road.

The company is seeking applicants for about 50 part-time and full-time positions in all departments at its Warren store.

Candidates must be at least 16 years old to apply. Those interested in attending should bring a resume.

Marco’s Pizza will open at Family Video

AUSTINTOWN

Marco’s Pizza will open at another Family Video today.

Officials will gather for a formal ribbon-cutting at noon, at the Austintown Family Video, 4381 Kirk Road. Marco’s and Family Video plan to open another 50 locations nationwide in the next four to eight months.

Exclusive Auto Detailing’s new site

boardman

Exclusive Auto Detailing opens its new location with a formal ribbon-cutting at 10 a.m. today at 5653 Market St.

The family-owned business cleans upholstery, carpets, engines, windows and wheels.

IRS draws criticism over $70M bonuses

washington

Already reeling from a pair of scandals, the Internal Revenue Service is drawing new criticism over plans to hand out millions of dollars in employee bonuses.

The Obama administration has ordered agencies to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts, but the IRS says it’s merely following legal obligations under a union contract.

The agency is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses, said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the IRS.

House votes to cut food stamps by $2B

washington

The House has voted to cut food stamps by $2 billion a year.

The chamber rejected 234-188 a Democratic amendment to a wide- ranging farm bill that would have maintained current spending on food stamps and cut farm subsidies instead. The bill cuts the $80-billion-a-year program by about 3 percent and makes it harder for some people to qualify.

The Senate passed a farm bill last week that would make much smaller cuts to the food stamp program, which has doubled in cost since 2008.

3-D printer firms to merge in $403M deal

minneapolis

Stratasys, a leading maker of 3-D printers, is buying another 3-D printer manufacturer, MakerBot, for $403 million in stock.

Stratasys Ltd. says the acquisition will enable it to offer affordable desktop 3-D printers.

The merger is expected to be completed in the third quarter of this year.

Vindicator staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Aqua America, .76, 31.22 —.48

Avalon Holdings,3.80.00

Clear Channel, .61 27.09 —.37

Cortland Bancorp, 10.00.00

Farmers Nat., .125.94 —.08

First Energy, 2.20, 37.22—1.03

FirstMerit Corp., .64,19.41 —.15

First Niles Financial, .32,8.00.00

First Place Fin., .0031.00

FNB Corp., .48,11.23—.03

General Motors,33.66—.35

General Electric, .76,23.98—.35

Motors Liquidation, .0422.00

Huntington Bank, .20, 7.47—.15

JP Morgan Chase, 1.52,53.55—.56

Key Corp, .22,10.41—.09

LaFarge, 16.39 —.61

Macy’s, 1.00, 48.33—.99

Parker Hannifin, 1.80, 97.83—.87

PNC, 1.76,70.88—.86

RTI Intl. Metals,28.91.09

Simon Prop. Grp.,4.60,162.52—4.78

Stoneridge 11.85 —.27

United Community Fin. 4.30.02

Selected prices at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Provided by Stifel Nicolaus. Not to be construed as an offer or recommendation to buy or sell any security.