NEW YORK — Randell Heath isn’t sure how hackers got into his company’s website — all he knows is a supplier called, saying the site had become an online store selling Viagra and Cialis. The problem might have been at the company that hosts the site. It might have been that Heath’s passwords weren’t strong [...]
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Justice for Children Clinic recently announced that one of its clients was granted asylum in the United States. The clinic provides law students the unique experience of representing at-risk children in the Columbus metropolitan area. The asylum case — a “remarkable triumph,” according to the law school [...]
A unanimous Ohio Supreme Court this week affirmed the Hamilton County Auditor’s $14 million appraisal of a Cincinnati Coca-Cola bottling plant. The appeal from Johnston Coca-Cola Bottling Company Inc. challenged the Ohio Board of Tax Appeals’ refusal to reduce its property tax value for 2011, a reappraisal year in Hamilton County. In a per curiam [...]
A bill seeking to establish a pilot program for the treatment of Ohio opioid offenders was referred to the Criminal Justice Committee in the Ohio House of Representatives last week. Republican Reps. Stephen Huffman and Andrew Brenner of Tipp City and Powell, respectively, introduced the measure earlier this month that would create a “long-acting opioid [...]
This week, START, a community-supported fund powered by Columbus startups, announced it has awarded its first grant to help Franklinton Gardens launch its new educational garden. START brings capital and startup support from an entrepreneur-led advisory board to help initiatives in central Ohio that are creating something special in the community. “START is dedicated to [...]
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Donald Trump promised to bring back coal jobs, but even the country’s third-largest coal producer appears to be hedging its bets on a comeback. Kentucky is on the cusp of doing what was once unthinkable: opening the door to nuclear power. The Republican-controlled state legislature is close to lifting its decades-long [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Goodyear has let the helium out of the last of its fabled fleet of blimps, but the company’s flight program will continue. About two dozen employees were on hand early Tuesday to witness the deflation of California-based Spirit of Innovation. But shed no tears, blimp fans, you’ll still see a familiar [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Before Donald Trump’s election, Laurence Berland viewed political protest as a sort of curiosity. He was in a good place to see it: San Francisco’s Mission District, once an immigrant enclave in the country’s heartland of radicalism that is increasingly populated by people like him — successful tech workers driving up rents [...]
COLUMBUS — Even coach Thad Matta has trouble explaining why his talented Ohio State players weren’t ready to perform with the same effort in every game this season. When he faced the media at times after tough losses, the affable Matta looked uncharacteristically downtrodden, befuddled even. “I don’t know,” Matta said when asked why his [...]