Residents signing up for food stamps in Minnesota are provided a brochure about domestic violence, but it doesn’t matter if they even read the pamphlet. The mere fact it was made available could allow them to qualify for government food aid if their earnings or savings exceed federal limits. As odd as that might sound, [...]
Public safety is the watchword for a bipartisan bill to revise the laws that govern operation of elevators in the Buckeye State. In addition to modernizing this section of state law, the bill seeks to provide for the safety of installers, maintainers and users of elevators and other conveyances. Filed as Senate Bill 127, the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s much-maligned health care system is covering 9 out of 10 people, a fact that hasn’t stopped the 2020 presidential candidates from refighting battles about how to provide coverage, from Bernie Sanders’ call for replacing private insurance with a government plan to President Donald Trump’s pledge to erase the Affordable Care Act [...]
NEW YORK — U.S. antitrust regulators have cleared T-Mobile’s $26.5 billion takeover of rival Sprint, leaving just three major cellphone companies, while creating a smaller competitor in satellite-TV company Dish. While there are still a few hurdles to be cleared for the deal to close, here’s what a combined T-Mobile-Sprint company could mean for consumers [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s little dispute that the Federal Reserve this week will do something it hasn’t done since 2008, when the U.S. economy was gripped by the Great Recession: Cut its benchmark interest rate. This time, by contrast, the economy is solid by most measures. Consumers are spending. Unemployment is close to a half-century [...]
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Hundreds of communities line the Mississippi River on its 2,348-mile journey to the Gulf of Mexico, but Davenport, Iowa, stands out for the simple reason that people there can actually dip their toes in the river without scaling a flood wall, levee or other impediment. It’s a point of pride in [...]
VERNON, Conn. — After worrying for years about the foundations crumbling beneath their houses, hundreds of suburban homeowners in a large swath of eastern Connecticut are getting help from the state to salvage their properties that had been doomed by bad batches of concrete. The homes are being lifted, propped up into the air and [...]
Pelotonia’s latest donation aims to boost immuno-oncology research that focuses the body’s immune system to fight cancer. The nonprofit that funds cancer research, known for its a three-day bicycling fundraiser, donated $102.2 million for the new Immuno-Oncology Institute at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center at The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard [...]
PHOENIX — Before she was hearing cases on the U.S. Supreme Court, former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was bringing people together in her historic Arizona home. The 1950s adobe, where the first woman on the nation’s highest court loved to cook and serve meals across party lines, was recently added to the National Register of [...]