The federal government plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots in Mexico from crossing the border and damaging the American cattle industry. Secretary Brooke Rollins last week announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture hopes to be producing [...]
MIAMI (AP) — The fate of a makeshift immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” hung in the balance last week as a federal judge considered whether building on sensitive wetlands violated environmental laws. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ordered a 14-day halt on additional construction at the site [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — The agency that oversees sports gambling in Ohio says it is working with Major League Baseball on the investigation of Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, but had no further comment. The Ohio Casino Control Commission said it was notified on June 30 by an Ohio licensed sportsbook of suspicious [...]
The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell modestly, remaining in the historically low range since the economy emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic. Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 9 fell by 3,000 to 224,000, the Labor Department reported last week. That’s below the 230,000 new applications that economists had forecast. [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The possibility of price increases from new American tariffs on imports motivated more shoppers this year to get a jump start on back-to-school shopping, according to retail analysts. Retail and technology consulting company Coresight Research estimates that back-to-school spending from June through August will reach $33.3 billion in the United States, [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general has sued the parent company of the Zelle payment platform, months after the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau abandoned a similar case. Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, sued Early Warning Services in New York state court, alleging that the company, which is owned by a group [...]
Organizers of the Los Angeles Olympics will sell naming rights for a handful of its venues in deals expected to bring multiple millions of dollars to the 2028 Games while breaking down the International Olympic Committee’s long-sacrosanct policy of keeping brand names off its arenas and stadiums. The organizing committee announced the deal last week, [...]
A new report from the state Department of Development shows that Ohio attracted nearly 242 million tourist visits in 2024, up 3.5 million from the year before. Across Ohio, visitor activity generated $57 billion in economic impact last year, up from $56 billion the previous year, and $4.7 billion in state and local tax revenues, [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is rolling out a service through which its Prime members can order their blueberries and milk at the same time as non-perishable items such as batteries and T-shirts and get them within hours. The online shopping site last week announced that customers in more than 1,000 cities and towns including [...]