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Little has changed in the past year to fix Ohio’s capital-punishment system, according to the 2024 Capital Crimes report released this week. The report, an annual statutory requirement of the attorney general’s office, provides the procedural history and other information on every case that has resulted in a death sentence since Ohio’s death-penalty law was [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a case involving a Catholic charitable organization pushing back against the state of Wisconsin in the latest religious rights case to come before the court. The justices are considering whether the Catholic Charities Bureau should have to pay unemployment taxes because the work of [...]
The Ohio Casino Control Commission issued cease and desist notices April 1 to three companies offering event contracts on sporting events to Ohioans. An event contract is a type of financial derivative that allows traders to speculate on the outcome of a specific event, according to the website of Robinhood, one of the companies targeted [...]
In New Mexico, police and prosecutors backed an effort to outlaw devices that convert pistols into automatic weapons. In Alabama, the governor made it a priority. Lawmakers in both states — one led by Democrats, the other by Republicans — responded this year with new laws making so-called Glock switches illegal. At least half of [...]
Norfolk Southern wants two other companies to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the toxic chemicals that were released and burned. The railroad filed the motion that is set to go to trial this week to force the railcar owner [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the nature of financial crime changes, with technology and artificial intelligence increasingly used to perpetrate illegal acts, the IRS’s crime fighting arm — IRS Criminal Investigation — is announcing a new program intended to improve how it interacts with financial institutions. Called Feedback in Response to Strategic Threat — or CI-FIRST [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — American immigration officials are asking the public and federal agencies to comment on a proposal to collect social media handles from people applying for benefits such as green cards or citizenship, to comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump. The Department of Homeland Security issued a 60-day notice on [...]
A Tenth District Court of Appeals panel reversed the dismissal of a case brought against an Obetz man who was arrested on OVI charges and other traffic-related offenses and who argued he was denied a timely trial. The three-judge appellate panel determined that at the time the Franklin County Municipal Court dismissed 43-year-old Ronnie DeWitt’s [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — There’s a lot of information (and money) on the table during tax season. That also makes it a prime time for scams. Year-round, fraudsters may use a handful of common tactics to try to steal tax filers’ identity, money or other sensitive information. As Americans prepare their annual tax returns, due [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As part of a push to roll back dozens of environmental regulations, the Trump administration is offering coal-fired power plants and other industrial polluters a chance for exemptions from requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury, arsenic and benzene. The Environmental Protection Agency has set up an electronic mailbox [...]