The Great Recession that struck a body blow to the American auto industry a decade ago, resulting in programs such as cash for clinkers, is now nothing but a distant view in the rearview mirror. Last year was the seventh straight year auto sales in the country rose from the previous year when a record-setting [...]
A special committee of the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission will present its recommendations to reform Ohio bail and pretrial services at the commission’s quarterly meeting today. The Ad Hoc Committee on Bail and Pretrial Services has been working for 11 months to examine the current state of bail and pretrial services in Ohio. Now, the [...]
Protecting the most vulnerable Ohioans and vital taxpayer dollars is paramount to a plan put forth to reduce fraud in the Buckeye State’s food stamp and Medicaid benefits programs. Republican Reps. Michael Henne and Robert McColley of Clayton and Napoleon, respectively, introduced last week House Bill 119 which calls for quarterly review of beneficiary eligibility [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Garlock has trouble making out what his friends say in loud bars, but when he got a hearing test, the result was normal. Recent research may have found an explanation for problems like his, something called “hidden hearing loss.” Scientists have been finding evidence that loud noise — from rock [...]
TORONTO (AP) — President Donald Trump loomed large in the mind of Mexico City plastic surgeon Rodrigo Munoz as he was deciding where to go for a winter ski vacation. Munoz has skied in Nevada and New Mexico, but what he and many others perceive as Trump’s hostile posture toward Mexico made him seek out [...]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The Atlantic City casino where Steve Wynn used to make sure Frank Sinatra had enough towels may soon become an indoor water park and go-cart track. Ronald Young’s R&R Development Group said Monday it has bought the former Atlantic Club casino and plans to turn it into a non-gambling family resort. [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — On Feb. 19, 2016, at a campaign rally in North Charleston, S.C., then-candidate Donald Trump gave a stump speech in which he railed against American jobs moving to Mexico: “We lose our jobs, we close our factories, Mexico gets all of the work,” he said. “We get nothing.” That same day [...]
BANGKOK — The 49-story Bangkok high-rise was supposed to feature luxury condos for hundreds of newly affluent Thai families, but it was abandoned unfinished when the Asian financial crisis struck in 1997. Now called the “Ghost Tower,” it’s a monument to mistakes made and an object of curiosity to a steady stream of visitors. “Sathorn [...]