NEW YORK (AP) — Out with the new and in with the old. As department stores watch their customers flock to second-hand stores, some are trying to bring them back by partnering with online resale sites. Last week, J.C. Penney and Macy’s announced a pilot program to set aside sections inside a few dozen of [...]
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Eirran Betka-Pope was on her lunch break when she spotted hundreds of Donald Trump supporters protesting outside the office of Rep. Justin Amash, the first Republican on Capitol Hill to say Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against the president. The protesters, who stood on the sidewalk with “Squash Amash” signs, saw [...]
Memorial Health and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s The Heart Partnership was created to focus on improving the heart and vascular health of northwest central Ohio. And a decade later, Marysville-based Memorial Health System reports a 71 percent rise in office visits since the program’s inception. The partnership provides area residents access to [...]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrats still shaken by the 2010 tea party wave that netted Republicans six governors’ offices, flipped 21 statehouse chambers and drove nearly 700 Democratic state legislators from office are mounting a comeback, pouring millions of dollars into state-level races. In a longtime Republican district covering a wealthy enclave of Dallas, Democratic [...]
LOS ANGELES — Like many urban singles, the mountain lion P-22 lives a solitary life in a too-small habitat. And he has a hard time finding a mate in the big city. Famous for traveling across two freeways and making a huge Los Angeles park his home, the lonesome big cat has become a symbol [...]
Seventeen farmers and agribusiness professionals have been selected to participate in Ohio Farm Bureau’s 2019-20 AgriPOWER Institute. The goal of the elite, yearlong training program is to help participants become community leaders and advocates for agriculture. During the course of the year, participants are expected to attend multiple sessions to learn about public policy matters [...]
WASHINGTON — Nerves are being frayed by a global economy that increasingly looks breakable. Growth is stalling. Factory output is down. Oil demand is off. U.S. tariffs on China have slowed trade. Investors have crowded into government bonds and sent interest rates sliding in a way that has often preceded a recession. So is a [...]
Eagle Transport and Logistics LLC is the highest-ranked central Ohio company on the annual Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing firms this year. Eagle Transport was one of 37 area companies that made it on the list, ranking 98th overall on the list. The company experienced 3,340 percent growth from 2015 to 2018 with last [...]
CHICAGO — Diabetics skipping regular checkups. Young asthmatics not getting preventive care. A surge in expensive emergency room visits. Doctors and public health experts warn of poor health and rising costs they say will come from sweeping Trump administration changes that would deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, as well as food [...]
