Hillsboro School District expects to lay off teachers in 2013-14 for the first time after years of relying on resignations and retirements to reduce staff because of budget cuts.

The district has sliced more than 240 jobs over the last five years through attrition, but there is no room left for that strategy, Superintendent Mike Scott told the school board Tuesday night.

"We are likely going to be looking at layoffs," Scott said. "It’s going to feel a lot more personal this …

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Jefferson County Public Schools is expected to lay off 41 teachers before the start of the next school year. The district blames budget cuts, especially cuts in federal funding because of the sequestration and a loss of stimulus funds. It is also possible many on the list will be kept on, because of last-minute attrition or renewed funding.

The layoffs were announced Wednesday. That was the deadline for notifying teachers if there wasn’t money to fund …

On the heels of last month’s announced deal calling for Dignity Health to sell its lab-related outreach service to Quest Diagnostics, Dignity has issued layoff notices to more than 500 workers, including 319 working for Stockton’s HealthCare Clinical Laboratories.

The Stockton-based employees are scattered among 17 facilities, primarily blood-draw labs, stretching from Lodi and San Andreas to Merced, with the majority of them working at the 26,000-square-foot main laboratory at 2012 N. California St., just north of Dignity Health-owned St. Joseph’s …

House of Raeford Inc. has informed state officials that it will close a poultry processing facility in Hoke County in July, eliminating more than 1,000 jobs.The company filed the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification notices with the state Department of Commerce last Friday. It lists July 13 as the closing date for the plant, which employs a total of 1,060 workers.House of Raeford announced in March that it would close the plant, a hatchery in Rose Hill and turkey growing …

Boeing announced it will reduce 1,500 information technology positions in the Puget Sound region over the next three years, said Boeing spokesman Andrew Favreau.

Favreau said the cuts will come through a combination of layoffs, attrition from retirements, relocation of some jobs and new opportunities for employees within the company.

The first layoff notices went out in March.

The cuts will affect almost a third of the total 4,700 Boeing IT positions in the Puget Sound.

A northeastern Pennsylvania military base says it will lay off more than 400 civilian contract workers.

Tobyhanna Army Depot in Monroe County said today that layoffs will begin Friday and continue through the end of April.

Tobyhanna blames some of the layoffs on decreased workload from the end of the war in Iraq. Officials say the budget impasse in Washington is also playing a role.

The Army installation has previously announced plans to furlough more than 5,000 employees.

Friday’s layoffs will impact 95 contract …

The Boeing Company says it will cut up to 2,300 jobs by the end of 2013 in line with plans to mainly downsize the production line of its cutting-edge 787 Dreamliner jets.

According to a statement released by the Chicago-based company on Friday, the cuts will also target the production line of Boeing’s 747 aircraft.

The 787 Dreamliners have been grounded since mid-January due to a battery problem.

Environmental Protection Agency regulations are snuffing out another power plant, Chase Power announced Wednesday, killing its $3 billion Corpus Christi, Texas, coal project and 3,900 prospective jobs.

“Chase Power … has opted to suspend efforts to further permit the facility and is seeking alternative investors as part of a plan of dissolution for the parent company,” Chase CEO Dave Freysinger said in a statement to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.

Mr. Freysinger said that although financial conditions played a role in the decision, …