TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top automaker Toyota reported record sales for the fiscal year through March, but its profit for the latest quarter faltered partly because of a certification scandal. Toyota Motor Corp.’s January-March net profit totaled $4.6 billion, down from $6.95 billion the same period a year ago. Quarterly sales totaled $85.9 billion, up [...]
BUFFALO (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts last week defended judicial independence as necessary to “check the excesses of the Congress or the executive.” “Judicial independence is crucial,” Roberts, the leader of the Supreme Court and the entire federal judiciary, said at a gathering of judges and lawyers in his hometown. He described the creation [...]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Long-haul carrier Emirates reported that it earned annual profits of $5.2 billion, with the state-owned firm declaring itself the world’s most profitable airline as global aviation fully returned to flight after the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The profits came as the Dubai-based carrier served 53.7 million passengers [...]
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union last week published a list of American imports that it would target with retaliatory duties if no solution is found to end President Donald Trump’s tariff changes, which could include aircraft maker Boeing. At the same time, the EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, said that it would begin [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Investors who profit from selling stocks, real estate and other assets soon could reap an even larger benefit in Missouri, which is poised to become the first state to exempt capital gains from its income tax. Legislation that won final approval last week would halt the capital gains tax this [...]
A Franklin County Appeals Court panel upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a Philadelphia real estate buyer’s motion to compel Franklin County Sheriff Dallas Baldwin to set deposit amounts on properties subject to foreclosure auctions at the amounts prescribed in R.C. 2329.211. The three-judge panel affirmed the Franklin County Common Pleas Court ruling which rendered [...]
SKANEATELES, N.Y. (AP) — Farmer Jeremy Brown taps the nose of a young calf. “I love the ones with the pink noses,” he says. This pink-nosed animal is just one of about 3,200 cattle at Twin Birch Dairy in Skaneateles, N.Y. In Brown’s eyes, the cows on the farm aren’t just workers: “They’re the boss, [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — A federal appeals court earlier this week upheld the racketeering convictions of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and an ex-lobbyist in a $60 million bribery scandal described as the largest corruption scheme in state history. The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in [...]
The $2.8 billion NCAA settlement awaiting final approval from a federal judge is touted as a solution for thousands of athletes to finally receive the money they say they deserve and provide some clarity to recruiting. For some, it’s too late. Sophomore distance runner Jake Rimmel says he was one of five walk-ons cut from [...]