WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Penn State has won a closely watched trademark fight over an online retailer’s use of its vintage sports logos and images. A Pennsylvania jury awarded Penn State $28,000 in damages last week over products made and sold by Vintage Brand and Sportswear Inc., two firms co-founded by former minor league baseball [...]
A deadly outbreak of listeria food poisoning tied to a massive recall of popular Boar’s Head deli meats is over, federal health officials said last week. Ten people died and 61 were sickened in 19 states after eating listeria-contaminated Boar’s Head products, including liverwurst. Illnesses were reported between late May and mid-September, according to the [...]
WASHINGTON — The federal FAFSA form used to apply for college financial aid has opened to high school seniors nationwide, a year after a disastrous rollout by the Biden administration delayed the application for months. After weeks of testing, the Education Department says there have been no major problems with the online form. It’s opening [...]
LOS ANGELES — Sales of previously occupied homes rose in October, the first annual gain in more than three years, with home shoppers encouraged by easing rates and a pickup in properties on the market. Existing home sales rose 3.4 percent last month, from September, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.96 million, the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House passed legislation that would give the Treasury Department unilateral authority to strip the tax-exempt status of nonprofits it claims support terrorism. The bill passed 219-184, with the majority of the support coming from Republicans who accused Democrats of reversing course in their support for the “common sense” proposal only [...]
DALLAS — Delta and United have become the most profitable U.S. airlines by targeting premium customers while also winning back a significant share of travelers on a tight budget. That is squeezing smaller low-fare carriers such as Spirit Airlines, which filed for bankruptcy protection last week. Some travel-industry experts think Spirit’s troubles indicate that travelers [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s third largest bank, Gazprombank, and its six foreign subsidiaries last week were hit with U.S. sanctions in a move intended to curtail Russia’s ability to evade the thousands of sanctions imposed on the nation since the start of its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the [...]
Questions about sexual orientation, gender identity and changes to queries about race and ethnicity are on track to be asked in the most comprehensive survey of American life by 2027, U.S. Census Bureau officials said. The new or revised questions on the American Community Survey will show up on questionnaires and be asked by survey [...]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming officials voted last week to proceed with selling a piece of state property within Grand Teton National Park to the federal government for $100 million. The decision ended decades of threats to sell it to the highest-bidding private developer. The 3-2 vote by the state Board of Land Commissioners — [...]