CHICAGO — Emmett Till left his mother's house on Chicago's South Side in 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi, where the black teenager was abducted and brutally slain for reportedly whistling at a white woman. A cultural preservation organization announced this week that the house will receive a share of $3 million in grants being [...]
HINTON, W.Va. (AP) — Across the New River from Hinton, W.Va., narrow, unpaved Freezeland Mountain Road zigzags its way up narrow hollows, across spiny ridges and through dense stands of hardwood forest, climbing 1,200 feet above the river in 2 1/2 miles. There, the terrain begins to level, forming a gentle bench, as the road [...]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently accepted offers from agricultural producers and private landowners to add a total of more than 3.1 million acres to the Conservation Reserve Program Grassland, including nearly 5,000 acres in Ohio. The program, part of President Joe Biden’s effort to address climate change and conserve natural resources, allows producers and [...]
The Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services has announced that the nationwide 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is now live. The service was established to improve access to crisis services in a way that meets the nation’s growing suicide and mental health related crisis care needs, according to a news release from the [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Steven Marsh never thought he would see the day his church in Laguna Woods, Calif. — a town of 16,500 populated largely by retirees — would be spending $20,000 a month for security. Then a gunman opened fire on May 15 during a luncheon at Geneva Presbyterian Church, where [...]
The tech industry's latest artificial intelligence constructs can be pretty convincing if you ask them what it feels like to be a sentient computer, or maybe just a dinosaur or squirrel, but they're not so good — and sometimes dangerously bad — at handling other seemingly straightforward tasks. Take, for instance, GPT-3, a Microsoft-controlled system [...]
DALY CITY, Calif. — San Francisco Bay Area high school teacher Lisa Raskin moved out of a cramped apartment she was sharing with a roommate and into her own place this month, paying a deeply discounted $1,500 a month for a one-bedroom with expansive views within walking distance to work. It was once an impossible [...]
ATLANTA — The expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020 election did not lead to any widespread problems, according to an Associated Press survey of state election officials across the country that revealed no cases of fraud, vandalism or theft that could have affected the results. Drop boxes are considered by [...]