WASHINGTON (AP) — Home-district projects for members of Congress are back, sprinkled across the government-wide $1.5 trillion bill President Joe Biden signed recently. The official tally shows amounts modest by past standards yet spread widely around the country — and that understate what lawmakers are claiming credit for. The bipartisan legislation, financing federal agencies this [...]
COLUMBUS — Despite the uncertainty raised over the date of Ohio's primary election, the state is ready to move forward with early voting for a likely May 3 contest with statewide and congressional races, but not legislative ones. The partial primary is scheduled to go ahead despite months of unresolved legal wrangling that has seen [...]
Blue Apron was struggling at the start of 2020. The meal kit company was trying to boost sales with new options such as premium meals, but it was also considering putting itself up for sale. Then the pandemic happened. Almost overnight, New York-based Blue Apron gained thousands of customers as restaurants closed and people tried [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — State leaders last week announced plans to spend $10.5 million on additional machines used to trace ballistic evidence from gun crimes. The spending increases from seven to 16 the number of Ohio National Integrated Ballistic Information Network units. The units analyze microscopic markings on bullets and shell casings and compare them to [...]
Committee members in the Ohio House of Representatives last week heard testimony in support of a resolution that calls on a federal commission to address the Canadian government’s jailing of multiple pastors during the country’s stringent pandemic-era lockdown. According to a joint sponsor of the measure, one of these clergymen remains in jail. “Pastor Artur [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials have slated millions of dollars for rural water projects in several states, with the Biden administration looking to shore up infrastructure needs made more urgent by long-term drought conditions. The U.S. Interior Department announced Thursday that $420 million will be spent on projects in New Mexico, Minnesota, Montana, North [...]
DETROIT (AP) — New vehicles sold in the United States will have to travel an average of at least 40 miles per gallon of gasoline in 2026 under new rules unveiled Friday by the government. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said its fuel economy requirements will undo a rollback of standards enacted under President [...]
DENVER (AP) — A federal jury's $14 million award to Denver protesters hit with pepper balls and a bag filled with lead during 2020 demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis could resonate nationwide as courts weigh more than two dozen similar lawsuits. The jury found police used excessive force against protesters, [...]