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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court last week revived a requirement that owners of millions of small businesses register with an arm of the Treasury Department charged with fighting money laundering and other financial crimes. The justices granted an emergency plea made by the Justice Department in the waning days of the Biden administration to [...]
A Franklin County appeals panel denied a woman’s complaint against the Industrial Commission of Ohio, which found she had engaged in fraud by working at a California addiction and recovery facility while being paid temporary total disability compensation. The three-judge panel of the Tenth District Court of Appeals affirmed a magistrate’s ruling to deny the [...]
Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, have agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the prescription painkiller, the attorneys general from several states announced last week. The deal, agreed to by Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family members [...]
A Fifth District Court of Appeals panel affirmed a Licking County Municipal Court judgment against a Utica man arrested during an early-morning encounter with the village police chief. The 2-1 panel upheld Police Chief Cameron Dailey’s arrest of 44-year-old Ryan McKenzie, who was walking behind a closed business while carrying a shovel across his back [...]
Residents challenging Norfolk Southern’s $600 million settlement for the East Palestine train crash have asked a court to reject a judge’s order requiring them to put up an $850,000 bond to continue their appeal for higher compensation and more information about the contamination. Nearly $300 million of the settlement has been on hold because of [...]
A judge in northwestern Ohio this week found a pastor guilty on criminal charges for failing to comply with the city fire code after he opened his church to let homeless people and others stay inside overnight to escape the winter chill. Chris Avell, pastor of Dad’s Place Church in the city of Bryan, could [...]
Efforts to exclude people in the United States illegally from the census have begun anew, with four Republican state attorneys general suing to alter the once-a-decade head count even before President Donald Trump’s second term in office began. Trump joined in the battle immediately upon returning to office, signing an executive order that rescinded a [...]
President Donald Trump has directed his Justice Department to pause enforcement of the TikTok ban until early April, but a host of questions remain — including whether Trump has the authority to issue such an order and if TikTok’s China-based parent would be amenable to selling the popular social media platform. In an executive order, [...]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Students throughout New York state might have to give up their cellphones during school hours starting next fall under a proposal announced by Gov. Kathy Hochul. The plan, which would require legislators’ approval, would take effect in the next academic year and force students to disconnect from their phones and other [...]
A Franklin County Appeals Court panel reversed the dismissal of a Columbus attorney’s claim that he has been unjustly excluded from the activities of a family partnership formed for the purpose of holding property and sharing rental income among members. The three-judge panel of the Tenth District Court of Appeals found that the Franklin County [...]