The number of homes sold in the Columbus area rose 11.1 percent last month compared to June 2024, according to new data from Columbus Realtors. Sales for the year are up 0.7 percent compared to the first half of last year. There were 2,951 homes sold in central Ohio last month, up from 2,656 during [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a lower court ruling in a wrongful death suit filed by the estate of a man killed when a group of teens on a highway bridge dropped a sandbag on the car in which he was travelling. Solicitor General Elliot Gaiser faulted the Tenth [...]
The United States announced this week it again will pull out of the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency because it believes that its involvement is not in the country’s national interest and that the agency promotes anti-Israel speech. The decision comes two years after the United States rejoined UNESCO after leaving in 2018, during [...]
A Franklin County appellate panel was not convinced by the appeal of a woman who faulted a trial court’s divorce decree and designation of her ex-husband as sole legal custodian of the couple’s two minor children. Anna Messina asserted that the Franklin County Common Pleas Court, Division of Domestic Relations, abused its discretion in denying [...]
The Ohio Housing Finance Agency board has approved financing for two central Ohio affordable housing developments. The Lofts at 40 Long project received approval to authorize up to $43 million in multifamily housing bonds through the Housing Finance Agency to transform a former YMCA building in downtown Columbus into 121 units for families. The development [...]
General Motors’ profit declined 35 percent in its second-quarter, but the automaker topped expectations and stuck by its full-year financial outlook that it lowered in May. GM CEO Mary Barra also said in a letter to shareholders earlier this week that the automaker is attempting to “greatly reduce our tariff exposure,” citing $4 billion of [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health-care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances. If approved, the changes unveiled this month also would affect working conditions at construction sites [...]
Honda this week marked the 40th anniversary of production at the Anna Engine Plant, the company’s largest auto engine plant in the world. The 2.8 million-square-foot facility in western Ohio is part of the automaker’s EV Hub, which is advancing the concept of flexible manufacturing to produce internal combustion en-gines, hybrid powertrains and all-electric motors [...]
Coca-Cola said it will add a cane-sugar version of its trademark cola to its lineup this fall, confirming a recent announcement by President Donald Trump. Trump said in a social media post last week that Coca-Cola had agreed to use real cane sugar in its flagship product in the United States instead of high-fructose corn [...]