NEW YORK (AP) — Did you hear the one about the cable company that’s actually improving customer service? The punchline: Comcast and its rivals say it’s no joke. These companies have poured hundreds of millions into new tools and staff to de-agonize the process of getting cable TV, Internet or phone service. It’s part of [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Marissa Mayer was a rarity: A major tech-company CEO who served while pregnant and, later, as a mother of young children. But her trailblazing has done little to meaningfully improve the second-class status of women in tech, a more deep-seated problem that will take many years — and certainly more than [...]
Building wealth has gotten harder for most people in recent years. But the habits that can make you rich haven’t changed. It boils down to this: putting aside money, regularly and consistently, that can be invested for your future. You have to leave that money alone to grow, which means you also need an emergency [...]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Democratic National Convention is fertile fundraising ground this week for one Florida congressional candidate, but not in the traditional sense of high-priced donor dinners or lobbyist happy hours. In fact, Tim Canova isn’t even in Philadelphia. Instead, the political novice who wants to unseat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is reaping big [...]
PRINEVILLE, Oregon — It was not long ago that Crook County had five major lumber mills. Timber was king, and the rural Oregon county was the nation’s top producer of ponderosa lumber. But amid restrictions on harvesting from federal lands, logging started to freefall around 1990. The county’s mills began closing. The global recession hit [...]
RANDOM LAKE, Wis. — Cone heads, zombies, beards, bananas — they are some of the creative beer tap handles that have become a big business as the number of craft breweries has skyrocketed. There were 2,033 craft breweries in 2011 compared to 4,144 last year, according to the Brewers Association. AJS Tap Handles’ business has [...]
PORTLAND, Maine — American fishermen are digging in for a fight over a proposal to shut down the vestiges of the U.S. harvest of shark fins, prized for soup and traditional medicine in Asia, and send a message to the rest of the world. The traditional “finning” of sharks — in which they are pulled [...]
One woman’s passion for art and teaching has led to the creation of an art studio in Bexley — Art With Anna. Anna Sokol grew up in Cincinnati and graduated from Capital University with a bachelor’s in art education. After working as a substitute teacher in the Bexley, Pickerington and Upper Arlington school districts for [...]
The United States 6th Circuit Court of Appeals this week denied habeas corpus relief for death row inmate Grady Brinkley after finding “little that one could say in mitigation” of his crimes. Brinkley was sentenced to death after he was found guilty of the brutal murder of his ex-girlfriend, 18-year-old Shantae Smith. Court documents state [...]