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With less than four weeks to go until Christmas, Kristyn Begari has been rushing to find enough doll styling heads to give to kids in need. But, the purchasing coordinator for the California-based nonprofit Family Giving Tree says it's been difficult to find them, or racially diverse Barbies or Disney princess dolls. Other charities who [...]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The last holiday season was far from the most wonderful time of the year for the U.S. Postal Service: Sick and quarantined workers, a flood of packages from shoppers loath to set foot in stores and a last-minute dump of packages from overwhelmed private shippers. Postal workers who recall packages and [...]
CLEVELAND (AP) — A jury's finding last week that three major pharmacy chains are responsible for contributing to the scourge of opioid addiction in two Ohio counties may be just the beginning of a protracted legal battle that ultimately could leave the communities no better off. The reason is the central argument — that pharmacies [...]
The shipping of goods and products has been snarled around the world due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, often punctuated by dozens and dozens of cargo ships sitting off the nation’s coasts awaiting a call into port for unloading. But in central Ohio, several hours away from the nearest major port by either [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Congressional redistricting is the arcane but consequential process of redrawing U.S. House districts every 10 years, which often goes unnoticed by citizens. Last week, a final congressional map for Ohio sprinted through the Legislature and was signed by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine on Saturday — all in less than five days. The [...]
The continuing rise of home prices in the Columbus region has lifted the average sale price to nearly $300,000, according to the new figures from Columbus Realtors. Home prices have skyrocketed 50 percent in five years, increasing approximately $100,000. The average price for a home sold last month in central Ohio was $298,473, an increase [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — After watching scammers make off with more than $20 billion in fraudulent California unemployment benefits during the pandemic, state housing officials were wary of a repeat when the federal government poured money into the state and told them to use it to pay off people's unpaid rent. But in the eight [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Night after night, hundreds of people marched the streets of Oregon's largest city, demanding racial justice after the murder of George Floyd by a white officer. Among the rallying cries were "defund the police" — a call for elected officials to reallocate some law enforcement funding elsewhere. In June 2020, the [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — States will soon be flooded with federal money to address a pent-up need to repair, improve or remove thousands of aging dams across the country, including some that could inundate towns or neighborhoods if they fail. The roughly $3 billion for dam-related projects pales in comparison to the tens of [...]
DETROIT (AP) — Take a step back from the picked-over store shelves, the stalled container ships and the empty auto showrooms, and you'll find a root cause of the shortages of just about everything. Even as the pandemic has dragged on, households flush with cash from stimulus checks, booming stock markets and enlarged home equity [...]