Having a father working for the Golden State Warriors and former NBA star Steve Nash for an uncle, college hockey player of the year and the presumptive No. 1 NHL draft pick Macklin Celebrini likes to think he’s got game. “I think it’s pretty good,” Celebrini said, referring to his basketball ability, before acknowledging his [...]
EAST PALESTINE (AP) — The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said this week that Norfolk Southern repeatedly tried to interfere with the agency's investigation into the East Palestine derailment and shape its conclusions about the flawed decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the vinyl chloride inside. The NTSB also confirmed [...]
WASHINGTON — As he campaigned for the presidency, Joe Biden promised to spend billions of dollars to "save the world" from climate change. One of the largest players in the solar industry was ready. Officials, board members and major investors in First Solar, the largest domestic maker of solar panels, donated at least $1.5 million [...]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration this week announced new steps to increase access to affordable housing as still-high prices on groceries and other necessities and high interest rates have dramatically pushed up the cost of living in the post-pandemic years. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen promoted the new investments during a visit to Minneapolis. The investments [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Meme stocks such as GameStop are hot again, reviving memories of early 2021 when they turned into a craze that ended up burning many investors along with Robinhood Markets. The online brokerage was especially popular among younger generations that helped propel the meme stock boom until it became so overwhelmed that it [...]
WASHINGTON — More than 500 people — some linked to transnational cartels and organized crime rings — have been charged with gun trafficking and other crimes under the landmark gun safety legislation President Joe Biden signed two years ago. A White House report obtained by The Associated Press on the implementation of the Bipartisan Safer [...]
A Chillicothe state lawmaker said he was inspired by the efforts of the local Goodwill Industries to establish a child-care center when devising legislation meant to help Ohio families with child-care costs. Rep. Mark Johnson, a Republican, said just as Goodwill works to reduce barriers to employment for individuals with limited employability, the General Assembly [...]
SUNRISE, Fla. — Sergei Bobrovsky went undrafted and had little fanfare when he signed his first NHL contract in May 2010. Long before he played his first game in North America a few months later, he stood out. It was summer that year and veteran Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Brian Boucher was on the ice with [...]
HONOLULU — Alicia Humiston bought her condo in Lahaina after she visited Maui and fell for its rainforests, lava fields and the whales that gather offshore. She travels there about three times a year and rents out her unit for short periods when she's not in Hawaii. "Maui was my dream place," she said in [...]