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WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer prices picked up last month, increasing 0.4 percent from January to February, higher than the previous month’s figure of 0.3 percent, according to new figures from the Labor Department. Compared with a year earlier, consumer prices rose 3.2 percent last month, above January’s 3.1 percent annual pace. Excluding volatile food and [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eleven-year-old Domonic Davis was not far from his mom's Cincinnati home when a hail of gunfire sprayed out from a passing car. Nearly two dozen rounds hurtled through the night at a group of children in the blink of an eye. Four other children and a woman were hurt in the November [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — America's employers last month added 275,000 jobs, according to a new federal government report. Last month's job growth marked an increase from a revised gain of 229,000 jobs in January. At the same time, the unemployment rate ticked up two-tenths of a point in February to 3.9 percent. That was the highest [...]
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Michigan Tech University biologists have been observing a remote Lake Superior island's fragile wolf population every winter since 1958, but they had to cut this season's planned seven-week survey short after just two weeks. The ski plane they study the wolves from uses the frozen lake as a landing strip because [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chair Jerome Powell earlier this week reinforced his belief that the Federal Reserve will cut its key interest rate this year but that it first wants to see more evidence that inflation is falling sustainably back to the Fed's 2 percent target. Powell noted that inflation is slowing for both goods and [...]
When the solar eclipse occurs April 8, it will cast a wide swath of darkness over much of Ohio, but that lack of afternoon sun is expected to provide some bright news for the state’s economy. “It’ll have a huge (economic) impact, but it’ll vary, depending on the part of the state,” said Joe Savarise, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As a substitute teacher in her mid-20s, Lindsey Puls was delighted to discover the fashion world of Shein more than 10 years ago, lured in by its super-low prices — with tops selling for a few dollars, dresses under $10 and free shipping on orders more than $29. Puls, who has a [...]
DENVER (AP) — A new investment platform that allows fans to buy and sell shares in the future on-the-field earnings of college and professional athletes has received federal approval to begin trading on the stock market. Denver Broncos linebacker Baron Browning will headline Vestible Inc.'s initial offering the week of March 18. Vestible is entitled [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation gauge favored by the Federal Reserve increased in January, the latest sign that the slowdown in consumer price increases is occurring unevenly from month to month. The government late last week reported that prices rose 0.3 percent from December to January, up from the 0.1 percent increase in the previous [...]
DETROIT (AP) — Price increases for cars and trucks, which helped fuel inflation for nearly three years, are slowing and in some cases falling, according to new figures. The average price paid for a new vehicle fell 1.2 percent in January from a year earlier, to $47,338, according to data collected by Edmunds.com. That's down [...]