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NEW YORK (AP) — Second hand. Like new. Thrift. Buy Nothing. Gently used. There are lots of ways to describe consumption in the booming resale market. Add "Merry Christmas!" to the list. Resale has taken off among those looking to save the planet and spend less on gifts during what can be the most wasteful [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Inflation is high, but this hopefully is close to as bad as it gets. Consumer prices rose 6.8 percent for the 12 months ending in November, a 39-year high. Many economists expect inflation to remain near this level a few more months but to then moderate through 2022 for a variety [...]
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — More drivers could find themselves stuck on snowy highways or have their travel delayed this winter due to a shortage of snowplow drivers. States from Washington to Pennsylvania, including Montana and Wyoming in the Rocky Mountains, are having trouble finding enough people willing to take the comparatively low-paying jobs that require [...]
DETROIT (AP) — Last August, Vince Patton was watching a YouTube video of a Tesla owner who had made a startling observation: Tesla drivers could now play a video game on their car's touch-screen dashboard — while the vehicle is moving. Curious to see for himself, Patton drove his own 2021 Tesla Model 3 to [...]
With just two more weeks until Christmas Eve, shoppers are crowding local stores searching for gifts, and they’re expected to funnel more money into retailers’ cash registers this year than they did a year ago, according to a retail industry report. The Ohio Council of Retail Merchants’ research affiliate, Focus on Ohio’s Future, and the [...]
If the Supreme Court decides to overturn or gut the decision that legalized abortion, some fear that it could undermine other precedent-setting cases, including civil rights and LGBTQ protections. Overturning Roe v. Wade would have a bigger effect than most cases because it was reaffirmed by a second decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, three decades [...]
A rush of vaccine-seeking customers and staff shortages are squeezing drugstores around the country, leading to frazzled workers and temporary pharmacy closures. Drugstores are normally busy this time of year with flu shots and other vaccines, but now pharmacists are doling out a growing number of COVID-19 shots and giving coronavirus tests. The push for [...]
HONOLULU (AP) — Cheri Burness' dog was the first to signal something was wrong with their tap water. He stopped drinking it two weeks ago. Then Burness started feeling stomach cramps. Her 12-year-old daughter was nauseous. "It was just getting worse every day," said Burness, whose husband is in the Navy. Their family is among [...]
A long-standing tradition for many Ohio families this time of the year is to venture to a nearby Christmas tree farm to choose or even cut down their holiday tree. It’s an activity that has grown so popular over the past decade that many area tree farms quickly run out of trees to sell. In [...]
FOLSOM, Calif. (AP) — The Hampton Inn in Folsom, California, has 147 rooms, but General Manager Enid Baldock could only rent 117 of them recently because she did not have enough workers to clean them. "I was turning people away with 30 rooms (available). Ridiculous," she said while stuffing bedsheets down a laundry chute to [...]