U.S. unemployment rate remains unchanged at 9.7 percent as employers cut 36,000 jobs. The unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent in February as employers shed 36,000 jobs, fewer than expected. The figures suggested the job market is slowly healing but that significant hiring has yet to occur.

Six people were killed Friday when a passenger bus hit another vehicle and rolled over on the interstate south of Phoenix, authorities said.  Update: 5 killed, 20 injured in Arizona crash involving tour bus, two semis and several cars.