The Ohio Supreme Court will take its show on the road next month as it hears oral arguments in three cases in Morgan County on April 6. The visit, according to the high court’s news service, is the spring iteration of the court’s semi-annual Off-Site Court program, which it does twice a year. “Part of [...]
It seems counterintuitive that the smartphone, often blamed for causing its operator to direct his gaze downward, ignoring the environs around him and anyone inhabiting them, could be used as a team building tool. But that’s exactly what app developers have done. The much maligned small screen often muted and assigned to a desk drawer [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Quick, name a Supreme Court justice. OK, name three. One of the current justices, Stephen Breyer, once noted wryly that their names are less well-known than those of the Three Stooges. But from the time Americans roll out of bed in the morning until they turn in, the court’s rulings are woven [...]
FLINT, Mich. — Flint residents could still be a few years away from drinking unfiltered tap water as the city makes incremental progress on an ambitious — if not overly optimistic — timeframe to replace old water service lines that leached lead into homes and businesses. Retired National Guard Brig. Gen. Michael McDaniel, who coordinates [...]
WEST CHAZY, N.Y. (AP) — Only 17 snowy miles from the Canadian border, Katie Bushey’s most basic needs are met by traveling health aides who come into her home to change her diapers, track her seizures, spoon-feed her fettuccine Alfredo and load her wheelchair into the shower. But that’s only if someone shows up. Bushey, [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin chemistry professor Robert Hamers has a jam-packed day ahead: an hourlong lecture, a conference call with colleagues about nanotechnology, meetings and plans to check on students in the lab. With a workweek that he estimates often extends to 65 hours, Hamers is hardly lazy, but Gov. Scott Walker [...]
DEARBORN, Mich. — Zahraa Ballout isn’t “white,” and she certainly isn’t “some other race.” If the government gives her the choice of checking a new “Middle East/North Africa” box on a census form, would she? Yes, she says, despite some reservations about what it would mean to stand out after Americans elected a president who [...]
HARTFORD, Conn. — The ease of relapsing into opioid addiction has led a growing number of states to help residents make it clear to medical professionals they do not want to be prescribed the powerful painkillers. Connecticut and Alaska are two of the latest considering legislation this year that would create a “non-opioid directive” patients [...]
MADISON, Wis. — A battle pitting big-box retail giants including Menards and Wal-Mart against Wisconsin towns and cities is headed to the legislature. Republican-backed proposals, written in conjunction with the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, are designed to close the so-called dark store loophole and increase how much the mega-retailers pay local communities in property taxes. [...]
A long-acting cholesterol medicine cut the risk of having a heart attack or some other serious problems by 15 to 20 percent in a big study that’s likely to spur fresh debate about what drugs should cost. Statins such as Lipitor and Crestor are cheap and lower LDL or bad cholesterol, but some people can’t [...]