BOSTON — A Boston suburb that was the birthplace of two of the nation's earliest presidents is planning to build a center honoring their legacies. Officials in Quincy, Mass., have announced the formation of a new nonprofit foundation to raise money and oversee the design and construction of the Adams Presidential Center honoring former President [...]
A joint sponsor of the educational funding legislation known as the Backpack Bill is confident the measure is on its way to becoming law, despite a legislative calendar that shrinks by the day. House Bill 290 has not advanced beyond an initial hearing by members of the Finance Committee in the Ohio House of Representatives. [...]
Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural, chaparral-lined hills of San Diego County. He’s lived there for 21 years and evacuated twice. That’s why he fiercely opposed a plan to build more than 1,100 homes in a fire-prone area he said would be difficult to evacuate safely. Brown [...]
DOVER, Del. — Twitter Inc.'s lawsuit to force billionaire Elon Musk to make good on his promise to buy the social media giant will be resolved in a small but powerful Delaware court that specializes in high-stakes business disputes. Twitter has sued Musk in Delaware's Court of Chancery in an effort to force him to [...]
INDIANAPOLIS — The lawyer for an Indiana doctor at the center of a political firestorm after speaking out about a 10-year-old child abuse victim who traveled from Ohio for an abortion said last week that her client provided proper treatment and did not violate any patient privacy laws in discussing the unidentified girl’s case. Attorney [...]
Daphne Hawk recently was named the new superintendent of the Ohio Department of Commerce’s Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensing. Hawk will oversee a division that manages seven different programs that offer 45 different credentials carried by nearly 76,000 individuals and organizations that operate in Ohio, including real estate agents, home inspectors, manufactured homes [...]
Companies hit the brakes on deal-making during the first half of 2022 as concerns over pervasive inflation, interest rate hikes and the threat of a recession loomed over Wall Street. Overall, companies announced $2.2 trillion worth of buyout deals in the first half of the year, a 21 percent drop from a year earlier. The [...]
LAS VEGAS — The NBA is coming off a massive financial year, with revenue topping $10 billion for the first time and basketball-related income reaching $8.9 billion, another record. League Commissioner Adam Silver said the numbers are particularly strong considering the league is still dealing with a pandemic, and it wasn't that long ago when [...]
The health and well-being of Ohio residents are at the forefront of a bill that calls on the Ohio Department of Health to initiate a mold information and awareness program to promote public understanding of the threat of mold in buildings. “This legislation is intended to do one thing — protect the public health and [...]