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Ohio State University’s College of Engineering has a record number of students, according to the university’s Autumn Semester Enrollment Report. This fall the total number of students, including all of OSU’s campuses, in the College of Engineering is up 3.3 percent compared to last year to 11,111 students. The figures include undergraduate and graduate students. [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Kenneth Williams spent his entire life in Brooklyn, but it wasn’t until a night in 2018, when he crossed a narrow footbridge in shackles, that he learned about New York City’s last floating jail. He remembers the murky East River water below him, the stench of mold and a sinking feeling [...]
HOBOKEN, N.J. — A decade after they were first envisioned in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy’s destruction, two of the largest flood control projects designed to protect the densely populated cities of New Jersey that lie just outside New York City finally got underway last week. A project in Hoboken, which was inundated by flooding [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa — Livestock and poultry producers will need to comply with more specific standards if they want to label their products organic under final rules announced last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA's new Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards are being implemented after years of discussions with organics groups, farming [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Federal officials said last week that conditions have improved on the Colorado River to the point that a plan by California, Arizona and Nevada to voluntarily reduce water use should help keep the river basin on stable footing for the next few years. The U.S. Department of the Interior said in [...]
In some states, higher-income families may now use taxpayer money to cover private-school tuition — and more people than projected are taking the offer, which might force scrambles to shore up state budgets. It's especially an issue in states like Arizona and Iowa, where at least some families whose children were already in private school [...]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — With millions of families behind on utility payments and more people seeking heating aid, many could soon see a welcome reprieve: The cost of heating a home with natural gas this winter is projected to decrease, according to the federal government. Heating with electricity is expected to remain relatively stable but [...]
For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha — a website that solves algebraic problems online — has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and with it, said Price, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Puget Sound. Now, however, they have [...]
LAUGHLIN, Nev. (AP) — Donald “Don” J. Laughlin, a resort owner and the namesake of a southern Nevada town that he turned into a tourist destination, has died. He was 92. Laughlin died Sunday at his penthouse home at the Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino in Laughlin, according to Diana Fuchs, the resort’s marketing director. [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — In the quest to build better for the future, some are looking for answers in the long-ago past. Ancient builders across the world created structures that are still standing today, thousands of years later — from Roman engineers who poured thick concrete sea barriers, to Maya masons who crafted plaster sculptures [...]