DeWitt, Nebraska, has suffered hard times since the closing of the Vice-Grip plant in 2008, and especially after the flooding of the Big Blue River and the Turkey and Swan Creeks in 2015. Hand tools ...

A Palatine-based toolmaker known as a leading producer of industrial vises now aims to get a grip on the home handyman market. Wilton Corp. is launching a line of hand tools and gadgets for home use.

For most of us, a vise is the sort of thing you clamp onto the edge of a workbench and crank down by hand. It might even be made of plastic, depending on the kind of work you find yourself doing with ...