Home sales in the Columbus area are down 5.6 percent so far this year, but home prices continue to increase, according to new figures from Columbus Realtors. The average price for a home sold this year in central Ohio is $356,192, which is 3.9 percent higher than through the first three months of 2024. The [...]
The sponsors of legislation devised with the intent to regulate Ohio’s growing hemp industry say their effort strikes the appropriate balance between protecting consumers and fostering business opportunity. House Bill 198 builds upon the Hemp Cultivation and Processing Program created in 2019 and establishes a statutory framework for the regulation of the manufacture, distribution and [...]
The company that owned the railcar that caused the East Palestine train derailment in 2023 won’t have to help pay for the $600 million settlement agreed to by Norfolk Southern and residents. An Ohio jury last week decided that GATX isn’t liable for the settlement even though the failure of a bearing on its railcar [...]
PepsiCo lowered its full-year earnings expectations, citing increased costs from tariffs and a pullback in consumer spending. The maker of Pepsi beverages and Frito-Lay snacks said it now expects its core earnings per share to be even with last year. Previously, it expected mid-single-digit percentage growth. A 25 percent tariff on imported aluminum is among [...]
The judge overseeing the rewriting of the college sports rulebook threw a potentially deal-wrecking roadblock into the mix last week, insisting parties in the $2.8 billion antitrust lawsuit redo the part of the proposed settlement involving roster limits that many schools are already putting in motion. “Any disruption that may occur is a problem of [...]
Applications for jobless benefits rose modestly during the latest period as businesses continue to retain workers despite concerns of a possible economic downturn. Jobless claim applications inched up by 6,000 to 222,000 for the week ending April 19, the Labor Department said. That’s just a little more than the 220,000 new applications analysts forecast. Weekly [...]
Removing lanes to slow down speeding drivers is a long-embraced strategy for improving safety on city streets. The practice known as road diets has proven to reduce accidents. Federal transportation officials once heralded such “road diets” for cutting crashes by 19 percent to 47 percent, but President Donald Trump’s administration is heading in another direction. [...]
Many Americans were forced to postpone cancer screenings for several months in 2020 as COVID-19 overwhelmed doctors and hospitals. Yet that delay in screening isn’t making a huge impact on cancer statistics, at least none that can be seen yet by researchers who track the data. Cancer death rates continue to decline, and there weren’t [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State lawmakers across the country have introduced at least 240 anti-China proposals this year, aiming to ensure public funds don’t buy Chinese technology or even T-shirts, coffee mugs and key chains for tourists. They’re also targeting sister-city relationships between American and Chinese communities. After years celebrating trade ties with China, states [...]