COLUMBUS, Ohio — The for-profit Heritage College with 10 vocational campuses across eight states has closed abruptly, citing financial problems and decreased demand.

Heritage College's website said its campuses were permanently closed as of Tuesday. The business was established in 1986 and advertised training for careers in medical, dental and veterinary assistance; massage therapy; fitness training; and aesthetics..

The campuses were in suburban Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio; Denver; Fort Myers and Jacksonville, Fla.; Lake Forest, Calif.; Little Rock, Ark.; Kansas City, Mo.; Oklahoma City; and Wichita, Kan., according to the website.

It wasn't immediately clear how many students were enrolled at Heritage when it closed. Calls Thursday to its offices at Weston Educational Inc. in Denver were answered by a voicemail system that wasn't accepting messages.

Students at the Columbus campus found a note taped to the door announcing it had closed Tuesday.

The closure comes as some of the largest for-profit colleges have faced steep enrollment declines, growing competition, new regulation and government pressure, prompting some to also close.

Wells Fargo discloses SEC probe

Wells Fargo has confirmed that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating its sales practices.

The bank said in a regulatory filing Thursday that a myriad of local, state and federal government agencies are investigating Wells Fargo for its sales practices scandal. That's on top of class-action lawsuits by investors, its former employees and customers.

Wells Fargo says it is also boosting the amount of money it has set aside for legal expenses to $1.7 billion from $1 billion it had set aside as of June 30. The bank has been under fire since it was discovered that employees opened as many as 2 million bank and credit card accounts without customer authorization.

Thanksgiving travel seen rising

Airline trade group Airlines for America says about 27.3 million people will fly on U.S. airlines over a 12-day period that starts Nov. 18 and ends the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. That's up 2.5 percent from last year.

The industry expects airport lines to be manageable because more people have signed up for programs such as TSA PreCheck that screen travelers more quickly.

The Transportation Security Administration said that nearly 4 million people are enrolled in PreCheck, up from 1.75 million a year ago.

More than 5 million are in other programs, mostly Global Entry, which is run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

THE BOTTOM LINE

370K The approximate number of car owners eligible for a buyback or fix under a $15 billion settlement deal over Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal who have registered on the settlement website, according to a company attorney. Sharon Nelles also told a federal judge Thursday that nearly 200,000 people have submitted claims. Nelles said the participation rate was exceptional. The deal covers about 475,000 Volkswagens and Audis.