Supporters of a bill in the Ohio House of Representatives say they believe more lives could be saved by successful organ transplants were the state to allow for dedicated organ-recovery vehicles to operate with flashing lights and sirens. Timothy Snyder, vice president of operations for the Nationwide Organ Recovery Transport Alliance, told members of the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer inflation in cooled last month, yet remained elevated in the latest sign that the pandemic-fueled price surge is slowing gradually and fitfully. This week’s report from the Labor Department showed that the consumer price index rose 0.3 percent from December to January, up from a 0.2 percent increase the previous month. [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives were indicted earlier this week in the long-running investigation into a $60 million bribery scheme that has already resulted in a 20-year prison sentence for a former state House speaker. Former FirstEnergy CEO Chuck Jones and former FirstEnergy Services Corp. Senior Vice President Michael Dowling were charged [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Fidelity Charitable, the nation's largest grantmaker, distributed a record-setting $11.8 billion to nonprofits in 2024, up more than 5 percent from the previous year at a time when generally donations are dropping. The grant total shows how quickly use of the donor-advised fund — an investment account that allows donations to [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — A federal judge this week extended a block on enforcement of an Ohio law that would require children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps as a legal challenge proceeds. U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley’s decision to grant a preliminary injunction prevents the law from taking effect [...]
ILION, N.Y. — Remington began here two centuries ago and generations of workers have turned out rifles and shotguns at the massive firearms factory in the middle of this blue-collar village in the heart of New York's Mohawk Valley. Now residents of Ilion are bracing for Remington's exit, ending an era that began when Eliphalet [...]
MEXICO CITY — Guacamole may be getting harder to make because a lack of rain and warmer temperatures have resulted in fewer avocados being shipped from Mexico. The western state of Michoacan, which supplies almost 90 percent of the creamy textured fruit, has suffered a hotter, drier climate that has led to a lack of [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — How much choice is too much? Apparently for Coca-Cola, it's about 400 different types of drinks. That's why the beverage company recently decided to discontinue half of them, shedding brands such as Tab, Zico coconut water, Diet Coke Fiesty Cherry and Odwalla juices, but still leaving about 200 others to choose [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a quarter of business economists and analysts expect the United States to fall into recession this year and any downturn would likely result from an external shock — such as a conflict involving China — rather than from domestic economic factors such as higher interest rates. Respondents to a National Association [...]