NEW YORK (AP) — While music is being streamed more than ever, the growth of music streaming is slowing, according to Luminate’s 2025 Midyear Report. Music streams continued to grow globally and in the United States in the first half of 2025, according to the report. Global audio streams reached 2.5 trillion in the first [...]
Unpersuaded by the arguments of a Westerville man who appealed the judgment in his personal injury claim against Kroger, a shopping center owner and a snow-removal company, a Franklin County Appeals Court panel affirmed the lower court ruling. The Tenth District Court of Appeals panel determined that the Franklin County Common Pleas Court was neither [...]
A new multi-year endorsement deal between USA Bobsled and Skeleton and American Honda will include testing, research and development at central Ohio Honda facilities. The deal will give the sliding sports federation financial and technical support going into both next winter’s Milan-Cortina Olympics and the 2030 Games in the French Alps. The deal, announced earlier [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale inflation cooled last month, according to a new federal government report. The Labor Department earlier this week reported that its producer price index was unchanged last month from May after rising 0.3 percent the previous month. June wholesale prices rose 2.3 percent from a year earlier, the smallest year-over-year gain since [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Two milestones revealed this week illustrate the diminishing power of broadcast television in the media world — one fueled by the habits of young people and the other by their elders. During June, viewers spent more time watching streaming services than they did for broadcast and cable television combined. That happened [...]
Starbucks is requiring some remote workers to return to its headquarters and increasing the number of days that corporate employees are required to work in an office. In a letter to employees this week, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol said corporate employees would need to be in the office four days a week starting [...]
A former Delaware County home-daycare operator charged with three counts of kidnapping and more than a dozen counts of endangering children failed to convince an appellate panel that the trial court was wrong to deny her request to replace counsel at the plea hearing. The Fifth District Court of Appeals found that 53-year-old Rhonda Coomes’ [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation rose last month as consumer prices increased 2.7 percent in June from a year earlier, according to a new report from the Labor Department. That figure is up from an annual increase of 2.4 percent in May. On a monthly basis, prices climbed 0.3 percent from May to June, after rising [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much, but they share a conviction that the government should help American manufacturers. Democratic President Joe Biden handed out subsidies to chipmakers and electric-vehicle manufacturers while Republican President Donald Trump is using tariffs to protect domestic industry from foreign competition. American manufacturing, though, has been stuck [...]