CHICAGO — Ben Kennedy is thinking big. As in big cities, big ideas and big plans. That's how NASCAR and Chicago got together. Kennedy played an instrumental role in NASCAR bringing an unprecedented street race to downtown Chicago next year during its 75th season in yet another radical change to its once staid schedule. "We [...]
An international design firm has announced it has opened a new office in Columbus. “Ware Malcomb has been very active in the Midwest for close to 20 years and has proudly worked on more than 150 projects in Ohio,” said Cameron Trefry, principal at the design firm. The design firm’s new office is at 875 [...]
SEATTLE (AP) — Dominique Davis was inside a Seattle-area church one day in March 2021 when a man with a handgun opened fire during a meeting of Community Passageways, a group he founded that works to curb gun violence. The gunman shot 19-year-old Omari Wallace several times before fleeing. Wallace, who was attending an orientation [...]
Freddy Fernandez almost wasn’t here, on his couch in his Missouri home, his baby on his lap, gnawing on the pulse oximeter that he uses to check his oxygen levels after a months-long bout with COVID-19. The 41-year-old father of six spent five months hospitalized a four-hour drive away from the couple’s home in the [...]
As scientists and casual space observers have been treated to high-resolution images from within the galaxy and beyond from the James Webb Space Telescope in the past week, Ohio State University astronomers have announced identification of more than 100,000 new variable stars. Variable stars are celestial objects that, when observed from Earth, appear brighter or [...]
NEW YORK — The economy is a bit wobbly, but General Motors CEO Mary Barra isn't backing off of an audacious prediction: By the middle of this decade, her company will sell more electric vehicles in the United States than Tesla, the global sales leader. To fulfill that pledge in as little as 2 1/2 [...]
LOS ANGELES — Leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to explain the impact of potential legislation stripping the sport’s antitrust exemption from covering the sport’s relationship with minor league players. Sen. Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who chairs the committee, and Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican who is the [...]
HONOLULU — Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island recently was given new land in a deal that will protect and manage a pristine white sand beach and ocean bay area that is home to endangered and endemic species and to rare, culturally significant Native Hawaiian artifacts. Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit [...]