Beautiful Creations ribbon-cutting set

Beautiful Creations ribbon-cutting set

BOARDMAN

The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber and owner Christine Wilcox will mark the official opening of Beautiful Creations Hair and Nail Salon, at 7807 Market St., Suite 7, with a 4 p.m. ribbon-cutting Sunday.

The event will feature free food and drinks, and customers will receive discounts on services booked that day.

They also will be entered to win two tickets to 2014 Country Mega at the First Niagara Pavilion and other drawings.

32,000 Ohioans owed ’10 tax refunds

DAYTON

About 32,100 Ohioans have until April 15 to claim an estimated $24.5 million in income-tax refunds left over from 2010.

The Internal Revenue Service estimates that half of the refunds in Ohio are for more than $560. If the refunds aren’t claimed, the federal government gets to pocket them.

The money comes from employers who withheld money for income taxes for employees who didn’t file for a refund.

IRS spokeswoman Jennifer Jenkins told the Dayton Daily News that most of the people who have money coming likely are among the working poor and didn’t file because they didn’t realize money was owed to them. Some probably didn’t meet the filing requirement of $10,000.

“You may not be required to file a tax return, but it may benefit you to file because you may get money back,” Jenkins said.

The IRS holds on to unclaimed money for three years before it becomes property of the U.S. Treasury.

Stocks edge higher

NEW YORK

A positive report on U.S. consumer spending helped push stocks mostly higher Friday for the first time in three days.

The gains were modest as investors continued to cut their holdings in biotechnology stocks, some of the best-performing names of 2013. Instead, the stocks that advanced the most were mostly mature, large companies such as Microsoft, Exxon and Cisco Systems.

Jobless rate fell in 29 states in Feb.

WASHINGTON

Unemployment rates fell in most states in February, and two-thirds of the states reported job gains, evidence that most of the country is benefiting from slow but steady improvement in the job market.

Unemployment rates dropped in 29 states, rose in 10 and were unchanged in the remaining 11, the Labor Department said Friday. Meanwhile, hiring rose in 33 states and fell in 17.

The rate declines occurred even though unemployment rose nationwide last month, to 6.7 percent from 6.6 percent in January. That increase occurred partly for a good reason: more Americans began looking for work, though most weren’t immediately hired. But the fact that they started looking suggests they were optimistic about their prospects.

Vindicator staff/wire reports