Improving international sales helped McDonald’s overcome some slower sales in the United States in the fourth quarter. McDonald’s same-store sales in the U.S., or sales at locations open at least a year, fell 1.4 percent in the October-December period after an E. coli outbreak tied to its Quarter Pounder hamburgers dented demand, the company said [...]
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is seeking to delay a 15-year extension of JobsOhio’s lease on state liquor profits, a deal Yost says requires nothing in return from the private corporation. The proposal would extend JobsOhio’s initial 25-year lease on state liquor profits by an additional 15 years, according to a news release. Under the [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Gov. Mike DeWine this week nominated former Ohio State Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel to be the state’s next lieutenant governor. Tressel retired a year and a half ago as president of Youngstown State University, a job he had held since 2014. The Republican governor announced the pick at a news conference, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing the one-cent coin. “For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!” Trump wrote in a post on [...]
For months, daring bands of thieves linked to South American gangs have been making off with piles of jewelry and cash from the homes of the biggest superstars in sports, targeting the likes of the NFL’s Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce. Sophisticated pillagers have deployed drones and signal jamming devices, sometimes posing as delivery drivers [...]
A study of the carbon-storing capacity of a wetland area along the Olentangy River north of the Ohio State campus revealed that man-made features of the ecosystem diminish over time in their ability to capture and store atmospheric carbon. According to a news release, university researchers examined soil core samples taken from two constructed freshwater [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers added 143,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to 4 percent to start 2025. January job creation was down from the 261,000 added in November and the 307,000 created in December. Economists had expected about 170,000 new jobs in January. Average hourly wages rose by 0.5 percent [...]
Amazon last week reported better-than-expected revenue and profits for the holiday shopping period. The Seattle-based e-commerce and technology company said its revenue for the October-December period totaled $187.8 billion, a 10 percent increase compared with the same period in 2023. Profits came out to $20 billion while earnings per share reached $1.86, higher than the [...]
OpenAI is scouring the United States for sites on which to build a network of data centers to power its artificial intelligence technology, expanding beyond a flagship Texas location and looking across 16 states to accelerate the Stargate project championed by President Donald Trump. The maker of ChatGPT put out a request for proposals for [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly unsealed documents give one of the most detailed views yet of the evidence gathered on the accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, including how prosecutors allege he and others interacted with the hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The summaries of evidence released last week include Mohammed’s own [...]