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Walmart has announced an increase to its minimum wage and a series of bonuses in light of the Republican tax bill, but the bulk of its corporate tax cut still won't trickle down to its workers.
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Wal-Mart raises its hourly starting wage to $11, hands out bonuses of up to $1,000

The nation’s largest retailer also said it will expand its workers’ maternity and parental leave benefits.

Jan 12, 2018 at 11:00 AM
Trevor Rood stands in the newly renovated Foghorn Designs studio on Main Street. The business's new location opened this week.
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Business Roundup

Foghorn finds a place to call home

Roundup also includes Norwalk woman earning award and auto dealership changing hands and name. 

Updated Oct 10, 2017 at 12:14 AM
Law enforcement at the scene where people were discovered inside a tractor trailer in a Walmart parking lot at IH35 South and Palo Alto Road on Sunday, July 23, 2017 in San Antonio, Texas. Initial reports said eight were dead and several were in critical condition.
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Human trafficking

8 immigrants found dead, 30 ill in sweltering tractor-trailer outside Walmart

Police are calling this a horrific human trafficking case.

Jul 24, 2017 at 1:00 AM
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Norwalk Police Department

Fake bill passed at Walmart over holiday weekend

Police say there’s no way to track exactly who passed the bill.

Updated Dec 28, 2016 at 1:08 AM
Donovan Wurzel, 4, (from left); Doniven Justice, 8; Sydney Wurzel, 7; and Leksi Jurczuk, 6, will choose their own bicycle from Walmart for completing their fire safety guides. On Wednesday, Norwalk firefighter Craig Caprara led the foursome on a tour of the station after they had pizza with the firefighters. Walmart and the Norwalk Fire Department have partnered since 1993.
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Norwalk Fire Department

Bicycle winners tour Norwalk fire station

Children enjoyed riding in truck from Walmart to station and the spinning lights on the ladder truck.

Nov 16, 2016 at 9:00 PM
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Friends of the Huron County Airport

Aiport hangar gets a new coat of paint

Friends donate time to spruce up building

Updated Sep 27, 2016 at 12:05 PM
This still from a video shows a vehicle racing past two pedestrians in the Norwalk Walmart parking lot Wednesday. As the video reveals, had the woman on the right not slowed and alerted her course slightly due to the oncoming pedestrian, she might have been directly in the vehicle's path.
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Car flips at Walmart

'The driver changed her story'

Driver, 68, told police she didn’t have a water bottle, but “her foot slipped off the brake and onto the accelerator.”

Updated Sep 24, 2016 at 12:51 AM
Norwalk resident Nancy Hetrick overturned her vehicle in the Walmart parking lot Wednesday afternoon. Police, firefighters and paramedics all assisted at the scene. Hetrick reportedly sustained a large and deep laceration on her left leg but nobody else was hurt.
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Car flips at Walmart

Car flips at Walmart

(UPDATED WITH VIDEO) Vehicle impaled by post near store entrance; pole entered just between her knees.

Updated Sep 23, 2016 at 12:03 AM
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Walmart evacuated after bomb threat called in

Caller had or used a foreign accent, police say.

Jun 6, 2016 at 1:13 PM
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Attention entrepreneurs in Ohio: Pitch your ’Made in the USA’ products to Walmart, deals can be made on the spot

U.S. manufacturing summit and open call for U.S. products planned at company’s headquarters

Mar 30, 2016 at 5:30 PM
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Business

Do you work at Walmart? You probably just got a raise

More than 10,000 Walmart associates in Northeastern Ohio to receive pay raise; Ohio associates also share more than $9 million in quarterly cash bonuses.

Mar 9, 2016 at 1:06 PM
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common pleas court

Man jailed without bond until next hearing

Probationers admit to separate violations; one is punished while the other awaits his fate.

Jan 29, 2016 at 9:00 PM