Free cookies for fathers at Eat’n Park

June 19, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

Eat’n Park Restaurants will celebrate Father’s Day with a free smiley cookie for all dads who visit Sunday.

The promotion lasts all day Sunday at all Eat’n Park locations in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

FirstEnergy opens new facility in Pa.

AKRON

Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. officially opened its new central machine shop and mobile maintenance headquarters in Canonsburg, Pa.

The facility provides a central location to effectively and efficiently repair equipment used at the company’s electric generating plants in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

FirstEnergy invested about $1.3 million to upgrade a recently vacated 110,000-square-foot facility to include machine, repair and electric shops and related equipment, sandblasting and painting facilities, a tool room, fabrication area and office areas.

Pension guarantees

WASHINGTON D.C.

U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Howland, D-13th, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, D-9th, announced legislation to be introduced in the House and Senate to restore pension guarantees for thousands of retired union workers, undoing pension cuts that were included in a 2014 spending bill. They were joined by union leaders, pension advocates and retirees.

Fitch upgrades GM’s credit rating

DETROIT

General Motors Co. announced Fitch Ratings has raised the credit ratings of both GM and GM Financial to investment grade. With this upgrade, the corporate credit ratings for GM are now investment grade with all major rating agencies.

Accidents involving self-driving cars

LOS ANGELES

California state officials released reports Thursday detailing six accidents that involved self-driving car prototypes, reversing a policy that shielded details of how the next-generation technology is performing during testing on public roads.

The disclosure came after The Associated Press argued to the Department of Motor Vehicles that the agency was improperly withholding the information.

According to the reports, most of the cars were in self-driving mode when the accidents happened, and the other driver caused the accident. None of the crashes was serious enough to cause injuries, either to the person the state requires to sit behind the wheel or people in the other cars.

The DMV’s refusal to release the reports bothered critics, who said the public should know how the cars of the future were faring today.

“The more transparent the government is about self-driving vehicle accidents, the more credibility the government will have when it comes time to decide – yes or no – on whether to OK the sale and licensing of self-driving cars,” said Peter Scheer, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition.

Staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Aqua America, .61, 25.28 .21

Avalon Holdings,2.32—.31

Clear Channel, .46 21.91 .11

Cortland Bancorp, 14.75.10

Farmers Nat., .128.14 .08

First Energy, 1.44, 34.01.58

Fifth/Third, .5221.12.16

FirstMerit Corp., .64,20.81 .15

First Niles Financial, .32,9.00.00

FNB Corp., .48,14.12.15

General Motors, 1.2036.29.48

General Electric, .88,27.38.33

Huntington Bank, .20, 11.48.12

JP Morgan Chase, 1.60,68.70.56

Key Corp, .26,15.35.10

LaFarge, 17.01 .29

Macy’s, 1.25, 70.63.58

Parker Hannifin, 1.92, 118.81.45

PNC, 1.92,97.75.29

RTI Intl. Metals,33.59—.19

Simon Prop. Grp.,5.20,181.982.41

Stoneridge 12.40 .11

Talmer Bank, 16.82.16

United Comm. Fin., .04 5.38—.06

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