U.S. stocks could hit more speed bumps this week if the start of the third-quarter earnings season offers little evidence that the economic recovery is gaining strength.

In a brutal job market, here’s a task that might sound easy: Fill jobs in nursing, engineering and energy research that pay $55,000 to $60,000, plus benefits.

Margarito Martinez says he was fired from the Eastern Washington dairy that employed him for more than a year because he tried to unionize the company. Nine co-workers say the same thing: They were let go for their affiliations to the budding union.

A South Dakota town that had to remove 44 tons of rotting bison meat left in a warehouse wants to know if the owner plans to pay for the cleanup.

The stock market’s bulls are slowing their charge, and upcoming earnings reports will determine whether they keep going forward or just stop.

There has never been a better time to be a consumer. America is on sale. The Great Recession has caused massive job losses and hardship for millions, but it has also fostered a shoppers’ paradise.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan predicted on Sunday that the jobless rate will pass 10 percent and stay there for a while, and a second stimulus plan is not needed now.