Power outages from severe weather have doubled over the past two decades across the U.S., as a warming climate stirs more destructive storms that cripple broad segments of the nation's aging electrical grid, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data. Forty states are experiencing longer outages — and the problem is most acute [...]
A report commissioned by JobsOhio and the Toledo-based Center for Innovative Food Technology this week underscored the pivotal role the state could play in addressing the nation’s snarled supply chain and expected food shortages. Authored by TEConomy Partners, the report highlights the state’s role as a leader in food industry research and innovation, relative to [...]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk now has a 9 percent stake in Twitter and a seat on its corporate board of directors, raising questions about how the billionaire business magnate could reshape the social media platform. He is now Twitter's biggest shareholder and has the ear of top managers. DOES MUSK HAVE A HISTORY WITH TWITTER? [...]
WASHINGTON — A deepening opioid epidemic is prompting the U.S. Department of Justice to warn about discrimination against those who are prescribed medication to treat their addictions. In guidelines published this week, the department's Civil Rights Division said employers, health-care providers, law enforcement agencies that operate jails and others are violating the Americans with Disabilities [...]
OMAHA, Neb. — Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly avian influenza. Penguins may be the only birds visitors to many zoos can see right now, because they already are kept inside and usually [...]
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency this week proposed a rule to finally ban asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and kills thousands of Americans every year. The proposal marks a major expansion of EPA regulation under a landmark 2016 law that overhauled rules governing [...]
HOUSTON (AP) — Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson must say whether he had sex with 18 massage therapists who supported him last year following criminal complaints, a judge in Texas ruled this week. USA Today reported that Watson has 30 days to comply. He previously would not address his past with the therapists. Watson also [...]
COLUMBUS — A bill in the Ohio House of Representatives would require educators to refrain from teaching Ohio schoolchildren as young as 5 years old about sexual orientation and gender identity. Introduced this week, House Bill 616 would prohibit instruction of such material to students in kindergarten through third grade. The legislation also requires that [...]
CLEVELAND — An Ohio appeals court has upheld a $25 million judgment for a business that successfully claimed it was libeled by Oberlin College in the aftermath of a shoplifting incident that roiled the historic liberal arts school and music conservatory's campus outside Cleveland. The 9th District Court of Appeals in Akron last week rejected [...]
A new Ohio State University-led study found that certain property values benefit from proximity to a bus rapid transit, or BRT, system. Researchers investigated the impact of these systems on property values near BRT stations in Cleveland and nine other cities around the country and found the station locations in some of the cities benefited [...]