Home Mortgage adds loan originator

January 16, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

BOARDMAN

Home Mortgage announced and welcomed its newest mortgage loan originator, Amy Shaw-Moody, to its Boardman mortgage team. Shaw-Moody made her career in the real-estate and mortgage industry during the past 14 years. She was a full-time real-estate professional in the area, earning the Million Dollar Producer distinction. Shaw-Moody graduated magna cum laude from Ashford University earning her bachelor’s degree in finance.

Flynn dealerships No. 1 in sales in area

YOUNGSTOWN

For the ninth-consecutive year, dealerships owned by David A. Flynn ranked first in automotive sales in Northeast Ohio. Final sales figures reported by the Automotive Dealers Association of Eastern Ohio show Flynn’s dealerships sold 7,270 new and used vehicles in 2014, outpacing the competition by 1,662.

Collectively, the Flynn dealerships employ more than 300 local residents and make up the largest auto group in Northeast Ohio. Located in Mahoning and Columbiana counties, the Flynn Auto Group includes: Columbiana Cadillac Buick Chevrolet; The Honda Store, and Donnell Ford located in Boardman; Donnell Ford Lincoln of Salem; Power Chevrolet Buick GMC in Calcutta; and Performance Truck in New Waterford.

Brown promotes Healthy Families Act

WASHINGTON

With flu season in full swing and with President Barack Obama signing an executive order to expand paid leave for federal workers, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, will call for passage of the Healthy Families Act, legislation that would help more than 1.97 million Ohioans who don’t have paid sick leave.

Target to close all stores in Canada

MINNEAPOLIS

Target is giving up on its money-losing foray into Canada after just two years, closing 133 stores and cutting loose more than 17,000 employees.

Target said it didn’t see how it could stop losing money before at least 2021 on its first international expansion. The closing links Target with a series of other retailers who have learned the hard way that the northern border is tough to cross.

During a call with investors Thursday, CEO Brian Cornell, who took the helm last August and has been charged with turning around the company, described the decision as “very tough.”

Jobless-benefits applications rise

WASHINGTON

The end of the holiday shopping season led to more Americans seeking unemployment benefits last week, raising the number of applications to an 18-week high. Still, the number remains near historically low levels.

The Labor Department said Thursday that applications for benefits jumped 19,000 to a seasonally adjusted 316,000.

The four-week average, a less-volatile measure, rose 6,750 to 298,000. That average has plunged 11.4 percent over the past 12 months and has remained near historically low 300,000 levels since September.

Vindicator staff/wire reports