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NEW YORK (AP) — The Perfect Pigg, a gift shop owned by Ginger Pigg, is the go-to place for residents of Cumming, Ga., to pick up gift items like kids toys and home goods. But this year, store shelves might be a little sparse. Because of bottlenecks in the global supply chain, many stores like [...]
Even as schools have returned in full swing across the country, complications wrought by the pandemic persist, often falling hardest on those least able to weather them: families without transportation, people with limited income or other financial hardship, people who don't speak English, children with special needs. Coronavirus outbreaks in school and individual quarantine orders [...]
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman let out a faint cough and assured those seated at least six feet away that it was allergies, not COVID-19. He had tested negative for the coronavirus three times in the previous week. It allowed the fully vaccinated 69-year-old the opportunity to underscore the message that the virus is still part [...]
For more than a decade the number of homes for sale in the Columbus region had been steadily dropping, giving potential homebuyers fewer, and often more expensive, options. Inventory had gotten so tight that multiple offers higher than a home’s asking price became commonplace, according to local real estate experts. But there is some encouraging [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — After struggling to hire workers for its outlet store in Dallas, Balsam Hill finally opened on Sept. 1, but the very next day, the online purveyor of high-end artificial holiday trees was forced to close after four of its five workers quit. The main gripe for three of them? Working on [...]
Consumers’ appetite for online shopping, invigorated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has been credited for increasing demand for more warehouse space in central Ohio, according to a new report from Colliers. The region’s industrial real estate market, driven mostly by warehouses, had a record third quarter this year, with occupancy growing by 4 million square feet, [...]
At the Loma Verde Recreation Center south of San Diego, demolition work is underway on a $24 million project that will rebuild the facility from the ground up, complete with a new pool. An hour's drive to the north, the iconic bridge to the Oceanside pier is deteriorating because the city lacks the money for [...]
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Nurses around the country are getting burned out by the COVID-19 crisis and quitting, yet applications to nursing schools are rising, driven by what educators say are young people who see the global emergency as an opportunity and a challenge. Among them is University of Connecticut sophomore Brianna Monte, a 19-year-old [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Near the Twizzlers and Sour Patch Kids at It'Sugar are random items — fidget toys, fruit-shaped soft jelly candies — that earned a spot on the candy store's shelves because they went viral on TikTok. A flood of videos last year showed people biting into the fruit gummies' plastic casing, squirting [...]
DALLAS — When Southwest Airlines canceled more than 2,000 flights over the weekend, citing bad weather and air traffic control issues, unsupported claims blaming vaccine mandates began taking off. Conservative politicians and pundits, including Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, alleged the flight disruptions resulted from pilots and air traffic controllers walking off their jobs [...]