As soon as this year’s Super Bowl matchup was set, workers at the Wilson Sporting Goods football factory jumped into action. The factory in Ada makes the game balls used by every NFL team along with many of the nation’s top college programs and high schools. This time of year, it’s all about the Super [...]
EAST PALESTINE (AP) — The village of East Palestine and Norfolk Southern have announced a $22 million settlement resolving all of the village’s claims arising from a 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. The settlement is to be used for priorities the village identifies in connection with the derailment, but it also recognizes about [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal public-health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency telling them that all staff who work with the WHO must immediately stop their collaborations [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly, avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into an electric grid that serves everyone else. The practice raises questions over whether diverting [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is expected to keep its key interest rate unchanged at its policy meeting this week. Fed officials, led by Chair Jerome Powell, have cut their rate for three meetings in a row, to about 4.3 percent, from a two-decade high of 5.3 percent. With several recent economic reports showing [...]
An asset manager is seeking to quash Nippon Steel’s takeover of U.S. Steel and oust the leadership of the American steelmaker after taking a stake in the company. Cleveland-based Ancora Holdings Group, with $10 billion in assets, reported acquiring a 0.18 percent stake in the Pittsburgh company. Earlier this week it said that U.S. Steel [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok’s parent company that would allow the federal government to own up to 50 percent of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok’s United States business, according to a person familiar with the matter. The proposal, submitted last week, is a revision of [...]
The Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Cannabis Control has launched a Cannabis Service Center, according to a news release. Officials said the centralized clearinghouse should allow the division to more efficiently process, manage and respond to inquiries it receives from licensees, medical patients, non-medical consumers, the public and other stakeholders of the state’s legal [...]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Vaccination bills are popping up in more than 15 states as lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create new religious exemptions from immunization mandates, establish state-level vaccine injury databases or dictate what providers must tell patients about the shots. Childhood vaccination rates against infections such as measles and polio continue to [...]