WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose modestly, a sign that employers still are retaining workers. Jobless claims for the week ending Aug. 2 increased by 7,000 to 226,000, the Labor Department reported, slightly more than the 219,000 new applications that economists had forecast. Weekly applications for jobless benefits are [...]
Lesley Mathis knows what her daughter said was wrong, but she never expected the 13-year-old girl would get arrested for it. The teenage girl made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates, triggering the school’s surveillance software. Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, [...]
Columbus suburb Bexley has been named the 10th-hottest real estate market in the country, according to Realtor.com’s Hottest 2025 ZIP Codes report. Most of central Ohio has also been designated as a “very hot” real estate market by the website. The list is based on market demand, measured by unique viewers per property on Realtor.com, [...]
An appellate court panel upheld the conviction of a Stark County man, who — for a month — kept in his possession a box truck that he had rented for the day from a Lewis Center truck rental and storage company. The Fifth District Court of Appeals panel was unpersuaded by 57-year-old Michael Lee’s assertion [...]
A new federal rule proposed earlier this week would make it easier for companies to use drones over longer distances out of the operator’s sight without having to go through a cumbersome waiver process. The federal government had already approved 657 waivers to allow companies such as Amazon and major utilities to do this in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency earlier this week said it will defend the Biden administration’s rule for reducing lead in drinking water against a court challenge. The rule gave cities and towns a 10-year deadline to replace all of their lead pipes and was the strongest overhaul of lead-in-water standards in approximately three [...]
TOKYO (AP) — Honda’s profit in the last quarter was half of what it was a year earlier, the company said this week, as automakers were hit by 25 percent tariffs on vehicle exports to the United States. The Japanese automaker reported that its April-June profit totaled $1.3 billion, about half of what it earned [...]
TORONTO (AP) — President Donald Trump raised the tariffs on Canadian goods to 35 percent last week, but a key exemption for Canada and Mexico shields the vast majority of goods from the elevated duties. Goods that comply with the 2020 United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that Trump negotiated during his first term are excluded from the [...]
The NFL announced this week that it has entered into a nonbinding agreement with ESPN under which ESPN will acquire NFL Network, NFL Fantasy and the rights to distribute the RedZone channel to cable and satellite operators and the league will get a 10 percent equity stake in ESPN. The league and ESPN still have [...]