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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is in the midst of a fundraising campaign to raise $25 million for a new building to house its education center and what has become one of the world's unique collections of baseball memorabilia. Museum President Bob Kendrick said the "Pitch for the Future" campaign is [...]
When millionaire Steve Fossett's plane went missing over the Nevada range in 2007, the swashbuckling adventurer had already been the subject of two prior emergency rescue operations thousands of miles apart. That prompted a prickly question: After a sweeping search for the wealthy risktaker ended, who should foot the bill? In recent days, the massive [...]
NEW YORK — Charitable giving in the United States declined in 2022 — only the third time in four decades that donations did not increase year over year — according to a report from Giving USA. Total giving fell 3.4 percent in 2022 to $499.3 billion in current dollars, a drop of 10.5 percent when [...]
Researchers at The Ohio State University revealed in a recent study of bumble bees’ dietary options that the pollinators appear to have more sophisticated preferences than one might think. Through observation of nearly 23,000 bumble bee-flower interactions during a two-year period, scientists found that these bees don’t always settle for the most abundant flowers in [...]
The head count of every American resident in 2020 helped guide the distribution of $2.8 trillion in annual federal spending, underscoring the importance of participating in the once-a-decade census, according to a new report released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau. There were 353 federal assistance programs that used the Census Bureau data in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans on the right and the left have a lot more in common than they might think — including their strong distrust of each other. A survey published earlier this week finds that when asked about core values, including fairness, compassion and personal responsibility, about nine in 10 Democrats and Republicans agreed [...]
DETROIT — Michigan State University's $3.9 billion endowment fund has become the majority investor in the Fisher Building, an iconic art deco style tower near downtown Detroit, the school announced this week. The fund is investing $21 million in the building, two adjacent surface parking lots and a parking structure for a 79 percent ownership [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — So many people knew something wasn't right at the 116-year-old Davenport apartment building. The structural engineer who documented the shaky wall. The head of a masonry company who wouldn't let his workers onto the site. The city inspector who threatened to close some units. A downtown official who called 911 [...]
Members of a committee in the Ohio House of Representatives are scheduled to hear testimony today in support of legislation that would allow police chiefs and other department officers to train closer to their home. House Bill 167 would update state law governing police training and the role of the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy [...]
LINCOLN, Ill. (AP) — Dressed in her Sunday best — pink ruffled sleeves and a rainbow tulle tutu — Crystal Martinez’s 4-year-old daughter proudly presents her with a multicolored bouquet of carefully crafted tissue paper flowers. With her 5-year-old son nestled on her lap, laughing in delight, Martinez holds out her arms and pulls the [...]