A Fifth District Court of Appeals panel has upheld a municipal court ruling that a Hilltop man was competent to be tried for an OVI charge relating to a traffic stop on Dec. 30, 2022. The appellate panel was not persuaded by the argument of 42-year-old Eric Henry, who appealed the Delaware Municipal Court decision [...]
The number of central Ohio homes available for purchase was 32.9 percent higher last month compared to May 2023, according to new figures from Columbus Realtors. Inventory across the region climbed to 3,549 homes for sale. Last May, there were 2,671 homes on the market. While there has been a rise in inventory, homes are [...]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The roar of the leaf blower has become an inescapable part of daily life in communities across America, but now many towns have banned or restricted blowers that operate on gasoline. The measures, however, face blowback from the landscaping industry and some property owners who say that the battery-powered blowers favored [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests with exceptions that include cutting trees to make forests less susceptible to wildfires, according to a federal government analysis obtained by The Associated Press. The analysis shows that officials intend to reject a blanket prohibition on old-growth logging [...]
LOS ANGELES — It all started at a Denny's in San Jose in 1993. Three engineers — Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem — gathered at the diner in what is now the heart of Silicon Valley to discuss building a computer chip that would make graphics for video games faster and more realistic. [...]
LOS ANGELES — On the first day of summer with parts of California sweltering under a heat advisory, a state worker safety board approved standards that would require employers to protect workers from indoor heat, but would exempt state correctional facilities. The board of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health first passed indoor [...]
Amid all the tributes and memories about the legendary Willie Mays, consider this perspective on his greatness: He may have been baseball's greatest living Hall of Famer — not just at the time of his death last week, but from the moment he was inducted in 1979. Mays' combination of hitting, baserunning and defensive brilliance [...]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The SS United States, a historic ship that still holds the transatlantic speed record it set more than 70 years ago, must leave its berth on the Delaware River in Philadelphia by Sept. 12, a federal judge says. The decision issued by U.S. District Judge Anita Brody culminated a years-old rent dispute [...]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has upheld a tax on foreign income over a challenge backed by business and anti-regulatory interests, declining their invitation to weigh in on a broader, never-enacted tax on wealth. The justices, by a 7-2 vote, left in place a provision of a 2017 tax law that is expected to generate [...]