CoreCivic hiring

CoreCivic hiring

YOUNGSTOWN

CoreCivic will hire 200 new employees for the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center on Hubbard Road.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently awarded CoreCivic a new contract for the facility located on the East Side.

The new contract contains an initial term expiring March 31 with four six-month renewal periods at the option of ICE.

CoreCivic houses about 600 detainees from the U.S. Marshals Service at the NOCC.

CoreCivic, based in Tennessee, has started hiring additional staff and expects to be able to accommodate up to 500 detainees over the next several months.

CarMax, others settle US actions over safety ads

WASHINGTON

CarMax Inc. and two other used-car retailers have settled complaints from federal regulators that they touted their inspections in advertising but failed to disclose that some of the vehicles were under safety recalls and unrepaired.

The Federal Trade Commission on Friday announced the agreements with CarMax, the largest U.S. used-car dealer, Asbury Automotive Group Inc. and West-Herr Automotive Group.

The agency also finalized agreements in similar cases with General Motors Co. and two other retailers.

Feds back plan to speed up Northeast rail service

PHILADELPHIA

Federal railroad regulators endorsed an ambitious and costly plan to rebuild the congested Northeast Corridor over the next 30 years by shoring up crumbling infrastructure, running more trains and building new tracks that would allow speeds of up to 220 mph on a stretch of the Washington-Boston route.

The Federal Railroad Administration’s plan unveiled Friday aims to cut down on delay-causing bottlenecks and increase capacity and reliability by upgrading outdated bridges and tunnels – including ones into New York City that are more than a century old – and realigning tracks to eliminate speed-restricting curves.

EPA analysis

BECKLEY, W.Va.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that it must begin evaluating how many power plants and coal mining jobs are lost because of air pollution regulations, analysis it hasn’t done in decades.

Judge John Preston Bailey ruled in October that the EPA is required by law to analyze economic impact on a continuing basis when enforcing the Clean Air Act.

Murray Energy Corp. brought the suit years ago and was joined by other mining companies. Thirteen states support the suit, which blames the EPA for the coal industry’s declining fortunes.

Staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Alcoa Inc., .1229.40-0.39

Aqua America, .71 0.23Avalon Holdings,3.020.07

Chemical Bank, .2723.34-0.36Community Health Sys. 5.65 0.22

Cortland Bancorp, .2817.700.00

Farmers Nat., .1614.65-0.40

First Energy, 1.44 31.780.46

Fifth/Third, .5226.79-0.40

FirstMerit Corp.,21.610.37

First Niles Financial, .12XXXX

FNB Corp., .489.500.00

General Motors, 1.5236.370.13General Electric, .9231.750.49

Huntington Bank, .28 13.02-0.24

iHeartMedia Inc.,1.390.09

JP Morgan Chase, 1.9284.94-1.06

Key Corp, .3418.16-0.21LaFarge, .34-0.00Macy’s, 1.51 37.47-2.67Parker Hannifin, 2.52 142.75-0.25

PNC, 2.20114.86-0.77

Simon Prop. Grp., 6.60181.291.29

Stoneridge 17.800.01

United Comm. Fin., .12 9.20-0.04

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