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Officials in Hollywood, Fla., don't like signs that people illegally put in highway medians, offering to buy gold or junk cars. The Sun Sentinelreports the city is placing scores of robo-calls to the numbers on the signs, hoping to harass their owners into stopping.

The much-anticipated February jobs and unemployment report is due at 8:30 a.m. ET. At 8.3 percent, the jobless rate would be about 1 percentage point lower than a year ago.

Kansas holds its GOP caucuses on Saturday. But not all the candidates are making appearances there.

Also, there were 227,000 net jobs added to private and public payrolls last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.

Some skin-lightening cosmetics contain dangerous amounts of mercury, the FDA warned consumers. Though illegal to sell in the U.S., the foreign-made products are popular in communities where fair skin is considered a mark of beauty.

The solar storm that swept over Earth Thursday didn't seem to cause any major problems, as some had feared. But the prediction that it would create some beautiful Northern Lights has proved to be quite true.

Game-makers are in San Francisco this week for the industry's largest global event. Roughly 20,000 people from 100 countries are there. And a game that hasn't even been created yet is getting lots of attention. It's also exposing the rift between the creative and business minds in this $33 billion industry.

This week while running in the Iditarod dog sled race, Scott Janssen's 9-year-old husky Marshall collapsed. He looked to be dead. But Janssen saved the dog, who now seems to be good as new. The funeral director isn't used to doing that kind of thing.

An analysis of votes shows bipartisanship has basically disappeared.

Fender is looking to raise some $200 million. The California-based company wants to pay down debt, and get into new markets like India and China. Fender was founded in 1946.