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Andrea Meneses stumbled on a direct primary-care clinic because of a crisis. Her grandmother, visiting Wisconsin from Bolivia, did not have insurance but needed to see a doctor fast. One of the grandchildren accidentally put her insulin in the freezer instead of the refrigerator. Meneses reached out to friends in a panic and one recommended [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation gauge closely watched by the Federal Reserve rose last month, while some underlying prices pressures showed signs of easing. Last week’s report from the Commerce Department showed that consumer prices rose 2.6 percent in December from a year earlier, up from a 2.4 percent annual pace in November and the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s economy ended 2024 with consumer spending continuing to drive growth, according to a new federal government report. The Commerce Department last week reported that the nation’s gross domestic product — the economy’s output of goods and services — expanded at a 2.3 percent annual rate from October through December. For [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Get ready for an onslaught of ads full of celebrities, cute animals and snack brands during breaks in the action at Super Bowl 59 on Feb. 9, when the Philadelphia Eagles face the Kansas City Chiefs at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. Anheuser-Busch, Meta, PepsiCo, Frito-Lay, Taco Bell, Uber Eats [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Bird flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, pushing egg prices to more than double their cost in the summer of 2023. It also appears there may be no relief in sight, given the surge in demand as Easter approaches. The average price for a dozen eggs [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly, avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into an electric grid that serves everyone else. The practice raises questions over whether diverting [...]
Central Ohio home sales and prices increased last year, according to new data from Columbus Realtors. Home sales in the Columbus region rose 4.2 percent in 2024 compared to 2023 and the average price of a home sold last year increased 5.1 percent to $365,257. There were 28,754 homes sold last year compared to 27,592 [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific reported 7 percent more fourth-quarter profit compared to a year ago as it managed to deliver more shipments with fewer employees and continued to make the railroad company more efficient. The Omaha, Neb.-based railroad firm last week reported $1.76 billion in profit, or $2.91 per share, to top Wall [...]
Residents challenging Norfolk Southern’s $600 million settlement for the East Palestine train crash have asked a court to reject a judge’s order requiring them to put up an $850,000 bond to continue their appeal for higher compensation and more information about the contamination. Nearly $300 million of the settlement has been on hold because of [...]
BUCKHOLTS, Texas (AP) — On rural Texas farmland, beneath hundreds of rows of solar panels, a troop of stocky sheep rummage through pasture, casually bumping into one another as they remain committed to a single task: chewing grass. The growing solar industry has found an unlikely mascot in sheep as large-scale solar farms crop up [...]