Unemployment

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah officials say the state's December unemployment rate has dropped to 6 percent, and the number of jobs in Utah has increased 3 percent compared to last year.

MADRID — Another troubled European government will almost surely tumble this weekend as Spanish voters braving sky-high unemployment, the sting of austerity, piles of debt and a bleak future are expected to dump the ruling Socialists and hand their national mess to opposition conservatives.

First impressions can be vitally important in a job interview, but they may be equally important in getting the interview.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — For President Barack Obama, the bus is back.

Standard-Examiner correspondent

BRIGHAM CITY -- Six residents are campaigning for the opportunity to represent their community on the Brigham City Council, but only three will fill open positions in the Nov. 8 election.

Council members Bob Marabella and Ruth Jensen are each seeking another four-year stint. They are being challenged by Brian W. Rex, Doug Beazer, Brett Reeder and Mark Thompson. Councilman Bruce Christensen is not running for another term.

WASHINGTON — For a voter looking to preview next year’s presidential election, nothing placed the competing arguments in sharper focus than a single day framed by President Barack Obama at a Pittsburgh union training center, a GOP presidential debate at a New England Ivy League college and a Senate vote that effectively killed the president’s package of economic measures.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is pressing for passage of his full $447 billion jobs package in the face of certain congressional defeat while embracing more modest administrative remedies to the nation’s sluggish economy and unwaveringly high unemployment.