SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Disney raised the curtain on a hotly anticipated video steaming service that’s aiming to topple industry pioneer Netflix, once a valuable ally of the Magic Kingdom. The service, called Disney Plus, has been in the works for more than year, but Thursday marked the first time that the longtime entertainment powerhouse [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — After the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London, his lawyer was quick to characterize it as an assault against the rights of journalists all over the world who seek to uncover secrets. But was it quite that clear? Does WikiLeaks do journalism, or is it something else? The answer [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the campaign trail, Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg blasts Vice President Mike Pence’s cultural and religious conservatism. But as the mayor of Indiana’s fourth largest city, his tone toward the state’s Republican former governor was more muted. During the four years in which they overlapped in Indiana politics, Buttigieg, the South [...]
Westerville Parks and Recreation was the big winner in the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s awarding of mini-grants for organizations’ environmental education efforts. Of the five central Ohio recipients of the awards, Westerville Parks and Recreation was awarded $5,000 to develop a recreational trail with educational signs through a wooded portion of Heritage Park. The City [...]
Central Ohio’s food truck industry has thrived in the five years since Columbus began to allow such mobile eateries to operate on public streets. The Central Ohio Food Truck Association has grown from about 15 members in 2012 to about 100 now. At the time of its founding, the Central Ohio Food Truck Association realized [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber is providing a look under the hood of its business in the lead-up to its hotly anticipated debut on the stock market, revealing strong growth but an ongoing struggle to overcome huge losses and repair its reputation. Documents released Thursday offered the most detailed view of the world’s largest ride-hailing [...]
A pair of lawmakers in the Ohio House of Representatives are hoping to stanch the rising incidents of prostitution associated with the state’s opioid crisis. Reps. Adam Miller, D-Columbus, and Kyle Koehler, R-Springfield, last week made the case for their bipartisan legislation to strengthen penalties for soliciting prostitution and increase funding for Ohio’s Victims of [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Hembert Figueroa just wanted a taco. So he was surprised to learn the dollar bills in his pocket were no good at Dos Toros Taqueria in Manhattan, one of a small but growing number of establishments across the country where customers can only pay by card or smartphone. Cash-free stores are [...]
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — The sky was turning orange and the embers were flying from the Camp Fire when Oney and Donna Carrell and Donna’s father sped away from their Paradise home. “I thought, ‘Oh, well, the house is done,’” Oney Carrell said. A few days later, they learned otherwise. The Carrells’ home survived the [...]
