D&E changes name to Alta Care Group

D&E changes name to Alta Care Group

YOUNGSTOWN

D&E Counseling, 711 Belmont Ave., has changed its name to Alta Care Group.

The brand-name change is the only change at the business, which has a history in the Mahoning Valley that goes back to 1970. The same staff and administration will continue to serve clients.

The mission of Alta Care Group is to support the emotional, behavioral and physical well-being of youths in Mahoning County through its divisions: Alta Behavioral Healthcare and Alta Head Start.

UCFC earnings

YOUNGSTOWN

United Community Financial Corp., holding company of The Home Savings and Loan Co., will release its first-quarter 2016 earnings at ir.ucfconline.com at the close of business April 19.

Training center

BOARDMAN

Ground was broken and bulldozers have begun prepping the site of a new electrical-training center in Boardman for the Youngstown Area Electrical Journeyman Apprentice Training Center.

The 10,800-square-foot facility, to be built by Hively Construction at the corner of Southern Boulevard and Western Reserve Road, is expected to be completed and occupied in September. It will be used for apprentice and journeyman electrician training, as well as serve as the business office for IBEW Local 64.

PNC dividend

PITTSBURGH

The board of directors of The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. declared a quarterly cash dividend on the common stock of 51 cents per share. The dividend is payable May 5 to shareholders of record at the close of business April 15.

$20B settlement OK’d in oil spill

NEW ORLEANS

A federal judge in New Orleans has granted final approval to an estimated $20 billion settlement, resolving years of litigation over the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier’s final order on the settlement was released Monday.

The settlement, first announced in July, includes $5.5 billion in civil Clean Water Act penalties and billions more to cover environmental damage and other claims by the five Gulf states and local governments. The money is to be paid out over a 16-year period.

Barbier had set the stage for the settlement with an earlier ruling that BP had been “grossly negligent” in the offshore-rig explosion that killed 11 workers and caused a 134 million-gallon spill.

Factory orders fall

WASHINGTON

Orders to U.S. factories fell in February for the third time in the past four months.

Factory orders fell 1.7 percent in February after a 1.2 percent rise in January, the Commerce Department reported Monday. There was weakness in a number of categories, led by a big drop in the volatile category of commercial aircraft. Demand for machinery, computers and household appliances also fell.

Staff/wire reports