A Franklin County judge has ordered two defunct electronics-recycling companies to pay $3 million in civil penalties for abandoning massive quantities of hazardous waste in Columbus. The court’s final judgment adopted in full a magistrate’s earlier decision against Closed Loop Refining & Recovery and Closed Loop Glass Solutions, according to a news release from Ohio [...]
MIAMI (AP) — A Miami jury decided that Elon Musk’s car company Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology and must pay the victims more than $240 million in damages. The federal jury held that Tesla bore significant responsibility because its technology failed and that not [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump earlier this week said that he will impose a 25 percent tariff on goods from India, plus an additional import tax because of India’s purchase of Russian oil. India “is our friend,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform, but its tariffs “are far too high” on American products. [...]
An initiative was launched this week to address the shortage of safe, accessible commercial-truck parking in Ohio by adding at least 1,400 new truck parking spaces across the state. Following a review of Ohio Department of Transportation property, Ohio has identified 33 sites in 19 counties where long-term truck parking lots will be created or [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble offered an annual earnings outlook that was below analysts’ projections and said it would raise prices on about a quarter of its products in the United States in part due to higher costs from President Donald Trump’s new tariffs. The assessment delivered earlier this week [...]
MILAN (AP) — Stellantis hopes to counteract some of the expected $1.7 billion cost of tariffs this year by boosting North American profitability with new model launches such as the discontinued Jeep Cherokee, the carmaker’s new CEO said last week. The world’s fourth-largest carmaker, created 4 1/2 years ago from the merger of Fiat Chrysler [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are warning Americans about the risks of an opioid-related ingredient increasingly added to energy drinks, gummies and supplements sold at gas stations and convenience stores, recommending a nationwide ban. The chemical, known as 7- hydroxymitragynine, is a component of kratom, a plant native to Southeast Asia that has gained [...]
Tea, a dating discussion app that recently suffered a high-profile cybersecurity breach, announced that some direct messages also were accessed in the incident. The app — designed to let women safely discuss men they date — rocketed to the top of the United States Apple App Store last week but then confirmed on July 25 [...]
A Tenth District Court of Appeals panel upheld a trial court decision denying an inmate’s motion in which he ultimately sought a new trial related to his conviction on charges in the shooting deaths of two people in 2017 in Columbus’ Hilltop neighborhood. The three-judge panel overruled the arguments of 29-year-old Devon Bias that the [...]