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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — After nine years of planning and $10 million invested by local taxpayers, county officials in Georgia's coastal southeast corner came a big step closer Thursday to winning federal approval of a project engineered to literally inject the local economy with rocket fuel. Since 2012, Camden County on the Georgia-Florida line has [...]
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power Co. is asking regulators to let it raise annual rates on customers by $235 million a year as the utility seeks to pay for its share of a huge nuclear project. The company says the proposal would raise bills for a typical residential customer by about $4 a month. The [...]
AVERY ISLAND, La. (AP) — As storms grow more violent and Louisiana loses more of its coast, the family that makes Tabasco Sauce is fighting erosion in the marshland that buffers its factory from hurricanes and floods. Overall, the effort is probably a standoff, says CEO and president Harold "Took" Osborn, great-great-grandson of the McIlhenny [...]
Vaccination rates are climbing and employers are rolling out back-to-office, back-to-normal plans. But some employees may want a new normal — one that includes flexible scheduling and benefits that align with their needs and values. "Expectations have changed. They were already changing, but with COVID-19, the how and where and why we work have all [...]
Noom CEO and co-founder Saeju Jeong moved to the U.S. in 2005 with $3,000, zero acquaintances and a lot of gusto to help people live healthier lives. He later met Artem Petakov, whom he convinced to leave Google and create the company that ultimately became Noom. They launched the well-known weight loss app in 2017. [...]
New and used car prices remain high as a global semiconductor chip shortage, combined with increased consumer demand, has caused a shortage of vehicles on dealer lots. The situation is expected to last many months, making it hard on people who are in need of a car today. "If you can't find the truck or [...]
The Girl Scouts have an unusual problem this year: 15 million boxes of unsold cookies. The 109-year-old organization says the coronavirus — not thinner demand for Thin Mints — is the main culprit. As the pandemic wore into the spring selling season, many troops nixed their traditional cookie booths for safety reasons. "This is unfortunate, [...]
The top two executives at Lordstown Motors have resigned as problems at the Ohio electric truck startup continue to mount. CEO Steve Burns and Chief Financial Officer Julio Rodriguez stepped down, the company said early Monday. The departures come less than a week after Lordstown cautioned that it may not be in business a year [...]
Bourbon’s inextricable connection to Kentucky thoroughbred racing practically fated what would become an avocation for an Ohio State University associate professor and veterinarian at the Galbreath Equine Center. Forty-year-old Jonathan Yardley, better known as Bourbon Barrel Johnny — maker of premium bourbon barrel display cases — among his Etsy followers, said it was the love [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The Biden administration has exempted most employers from long-awaited rules for protecting workers from the coronavirus, angering labor advocates who had spent more than a year lobbying for the protections. The Labor Department included only health care workers in its new emergency temporary standard published Thursday. The rules require employers to [...]