A majority of justices have agreed to hear the argument of a Dayton man appealing a stalking conviction on the basis that he couldn’t have known his online conduct was unwelcome or threatening to a West Carrollton woman when she never instructed him that it was. The Supreme Court of Ohio accepted 31-year-old Dorian Crawl’s [...]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court last week rejected a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids but also would have provided billions of dollars to combat the opioid epidemic. After deliberating more than six [...]
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. — Sheryl Taylor works as an administrator for Martha's Vineyard Regional High School. Each summer, she has to leave the island or stay with friends because she can't afford the high seasonal rents. How high? The average vacation home rents for $6,500 a week. "I have spent a significant amount of time [...]
WASHINGTON — An independent watchdog within the IRS reported last week that while taxpayer services have vastly improved, the agency is still too slow to resolve identity theft cases with delays that are “unconscionable.” Overall, the 2024 filing season went smoothly, according to the latest National Taxpayer Advocate report to Congress, especially after the IRS [...]
Boeing is being sanctioned by U.S. investigators for sharing information about a federal investigation of a door plug blowout that left a gaping hole in a Boeing 737 Max 9. The National Transportation Safety Board said that Boeing "blatantly violated" the agency's investigative regulations as well as a signed agreement by providing nonpublic investigative information [...]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Katherine Anderson trekked from Texas to Philadelphia last year for a college program she couldn’t find anywhere else, combining the music business, entrepreneurship and technology. Earlier this month, she received the startling news the university would be shutting down within days. The closure of the University of the Arts has left her [...]
General Motors has named a veteran technology executive with roots in the video game industry to steer its troubled robotaxi service Cruise as it tries to recover from a gruesome collision that triggered the suspension of its California license. Marc Whitten, one of the key engineers behind the Xbox video game console, will take over [...]
Iowa public utility regulators have approved a controversial carbon dioxide pipeline for transporting emissions of the climate-warming greenhouse gas for storage underground in a win for Summit Carbon Solutions’ project after setbacks in other states and opposition from landowners around the Midwest. The company still has many hoops to jump through before it can begin [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas’ governor has signed legislation enabling the state to lure the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and Major League Baseball’s Royals away from neighboring Missouri by helping the teams pay for new stadiums. Gov. Laura Kelly’s action came after the Republican-led legislature approved the measure with bipartisan supermajorities — an unusually [...]