A Delaware County therapeutic riding center that caters to children with disabilities or developmental challenges, as well as to first responders and veterans, has plans to expand its facility. Stockhands Horses for Healing, co-founded by Tim Funk and Lisa Benton, is a non-profit organization that operates the therapeutic riding center. The center, established in 2014, [...]
A Republican duo in the Ohio House of Representatives has introduced a bill to take the first steps in modernizing the state’s unemployment compensation system. House Bill 568 is the result of work by members of the Unemployment Compensation Modernization and Improvement Council with feedback from Ohio Job and Family Services, the state auditor, the [...]
CLEVELAND (AP) — Hakizimana Muvunye, a refugee from Congo who lives in Cleveland, is a man doing his best. He’s the owner of Asante Landscaping but has only five clients, so he also drives for Uber. “I need to take care of my family,” he said. Muvunye and his wife, Irene Twizere, have five children. [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The meeting place? A secret. Agenda? Not public. Name tags? Take them off in public. Even one of the main social events — trivia night — would be at an undisclosed location. This was no meeting of spies or undercover law enforcement agents. Instead, these were the security protocols for a [...]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Blame it on lingering effects of the pandemic, resentment over the lockout or economic fears. Major League Baseball is struggling to fill the stands at pre-COVID levels as the sport heads into the last 2 1/2 months of its first season since 2019 without capacity restrictions. MLB reached the All-Star break with [...]
NEW YORK — This year's crazy market swings prove once again how little control we have over our investments. Stocks are down about 20 percent from their peak early this year, and along the way they've zoomed erratically in every direction. A seemingly solid gain for stocks on Wall Street in the morning can quickly [...]
A Democrat-sponsored bill that calls on the state attorney general to create a law enforcement officer database to determine an officer’s eligibility for employment remains in a committee in the Ohio House of Representatives. Joint sponsors Reps. Michael Sheehy of Oregon and Paula Hicks-Hudson of Toledo said they are hopeful that their legislation will assist [...]
It’s the summer that cooled the housing market. Rising mortgage rates have combined with already high home prices to discourage would-be buyers. Mortgage applications have declined sharply. Sales of previously occupied homes have fallen for five straight months, during what is generally the busiest time of year in real estate. The rate on a 30-year [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When "Top Gun: Maverick" roared into theaters in late May, the Air Force was ready. The smash hit movie may feature Tom Cruise as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a hotshot Navy aviator, but to much of the movie-going public, the distinction between Air Force and Navy fighter jets is lost. So, Air Force [...]