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The number of homes for sale in central Ohio is the highest it’s been in nearly a decade, according to a new report from Columbus Realtors. Housing inventory in central Ohio is up 20.8 percent from a year ago and 8.7 percent just from June to July. Last month there were 5,638 single-family homes and [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick this week confirmed the federal government is vying for a 10 percent stake in Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in a deal that would deepen the Trump administration’s financial ties with major computer chip manufacturers. The ambitions that Lutnick confirmed in a televised interview with CNBC came [...]
Home Depot’s sales improved during its fiscal second quarter as consumers remained focused on smaller projects amid cost concerns and economic uncertainty, but its performance missed Wall Street’s expectations. The retailer stood by its prior forecast for revenue and profit over the full year. Revenue for the three months ended Aug. 3 climbed to $45.28 [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan to replace thousands of aging, gas-powered U.S. Postal Service mail trucks with a mostly electric fleet is facing congressional attempts to strip billions in federal EV funding. In June, the Senate parliamentarian blocked a Republican proposal in a major tax-and-spending bill to sell off the agency’s new electric vehicles and [...]
A new report from the state Department of Development shows that Ohio attracted nearly 242 million tourist visits in 2024, up 3.5 million from the year before. Across Ohio, visitor activity generated $57 billion in economic impact last year, up from $56 billion the previous year, and $4.7 billion in state and local tax revenues, [...]
Homeowners are cashing in on years of home equity gains, even as mortgage rates remain elevated. The trend sent cash-out home refinancing activity to a nearly three-year high in the April-June quarter, according to data from home loan data tracker ICE Mortgage Technology. In a cash-out refinance, a homeowner takes out a loan for more [...]
Delivery drones are so fast they can zip a pint of ice cream to a customer’s driveway before it melts. The long-promised technology has been slow to take off in the United States, however. More than six years after the Federal Aviation Administration approved commercial home deliveries with drones, the service mostly has been confined [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers. Analysts say it’s not clear that any state has a solution and the actual impact of data centers on electricity bills is difficult to pin down. Some [...]
Lesley Mathis knows what her daughter said was wrong, but she never expected the 13-year-old girl would get arrested for it. The teenage girl made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates, triggering the school’s surveillance software. Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, [...]
A new federal rule proposed earlier this week would make it easier for companies to use drones over longer distances out of the operator’s sight without having to go through a cumbersome waiver process. The federal government had already approved 657 waivers to allow companies such as Amazon and major utilities to do this in [...]