A measure that would make it a criminal offense for mugshot tabloid publications and websites to demand payment to remove, correct, modify or refrain from publishing details of an individual’s criminal record cleared the Ohio House of Representatives last week. House Bill 6 calls for the prohibition of the activity, which testimony suggested targets unfairly [...]
Now that March Madness is in full swing, offices around the country are abuzz with game-related chatter and a major loss in workplace productivity. According to a report from global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, millions of preoccupied workers could cost their employers almost $4 billion in the opening week of the tournament alone. [...]
U.S. News & World Report’s latest edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools gives high marks to several Ohio State University graduate and professional programs, including a No. 1 ranking to the technical-vocational education program. Another 11 programs ranked in the top 10, nationally, a university press release detailed last week. “Ohio State’s graduate programs continue [...]
HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Army soldiers finished wading across a stream in a rainforest in Hawaii, and they were soaked. Their boots and socks were water-logged and their clothes, hair and ears were caked with mud. The soldiers were going through training at the first jungle school the Army has established in decades. The [...]
BOSTON (AP) — Tykeam Jackson’s soft voice and warm smile give little hint of how the 21-year-old spent his youth: in and out of juvenile detention and jails, leading a life in Boston’s mean streets centered on gangs and guns. “I was always having guns to protect myself. I just kept getting caught,” he said. [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. authorities may now be in a better position to figure out if Russian hackers and Russian spies swayed last year’s presidential elections. A scheme uncovered during a federal investigation into a huge Yahoo security breach may have opened a window into other hacks potentially instigated by foreign governments, according to computer security [...]
Sarah Gillis switched from a national bank to a local one in New Jersey as a matter of principle. “I feel like my voice matters more in a smaller bank,” says Gillis, who closed her account at a national bank because she disagreed, she says, with some of its corporate investments. She opened an account [...]
ATSUGI, Japan — Alfonso Albaisa draws upon the cultures of Japan, America and Cuba in concocting car designs with a flair that once was lacking at Japanese automakers, critics say, but is becoming evident as they globalize. The Cuban-American, who has worked on the luxury brand’s Q30 and award-winning Q60 models, was promoted this week [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s 1 a.m. You’ve had a few too many at a crowded bar and walk out without paying the tab. Your credit card and driver’s license sit behind the cash register, leaving your personal info widely accessible while you sleep off those vodka tonics. There’s a new option that might lessen [...]
PORTAGE, Pa. — Facing a growing number of vacant, neglected structures, Portage Borough Council has taken an unusual approach for encouraging reuse of several former church properties. Council voted this month to explore revoking tax-exempt status for the former Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Parish church buildings and a former church school. Council President [...]