COLUMBUS (AP) — A former Ohio Supreme Court justice last week announced plans to run for a northeast Ohio congressional seat, while an Ohio State University graduate student said he’s making an independent bid for governor in 2026. William O’Neill, a 78-year-old Democrat, said he is coming out of retirement because he can’t “sit idly [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio signaled last week it swiftly will appeal a court ruling declaring the state’s private-school voucher system unconstitutional, a decision celebrated by public-school advocates and condemned by a prominent Christian education organization. Attorney General Dave Yost said in a statement that he is confident the state ultimately will win. He assured Ohio [...]
Kroger plans to close around 60 grocery stores over the next 18 months to improve efficiency. The Cincinnati-based company announced the plan during a corporate earnings call June 20. The company hasn’t said which stores it plans to shutter, but said the closures will happen around the country. It also said employees at impacted stores [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department last week slapped sanctions on three Mexico-based financial institutions it said were used to launder millions of dollars for cartels, in a move officials say would block certain money transfers between the sanctioned banks and American banks. The orders issued on the banks CIBanco and Intercam Banco, [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the company of stealing their works to train its artificial intelligence technology. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria was the second in a week from San Francisco’s [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio has agreed to hear the appeal of a Kent property owner, who is challenging a zoning restriction that prohibits the use of a six-bedroom residence owned by the man to house individuals with disabilities. Landlord Reed Havel was able to convince a majority of the justices that the high court [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber’s rules. Lee, a Utah Republican, has proposed selling millions of acres [...]
Federal traffic safety regulators are looking into suspected problems with Elon Musk’s test run of self-driving “robotaxis” in Texas after videos surfaced showing them braking suddenly or going straight through an intersection from a turning lane and driving down the wrong side of the road. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it has asked [...]