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ATLANTA (AP) — In one part of downtown Atlanta, shipping containers have been transformed into homes for dozens of previously unsheltered people who are settled in the former parking lot. The gated micro community known as “The Melody” doesn’t look like a parking lot anymore. Artificial turf is spread across the asphalt. Potted plants and [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Gas prices are on the decline across the country, bringing some relief to drivers now paying a little less to fill up their tanks. The national average for gas prices on Monday stood around $3.44, according to AAA. In Ohio, the average price was $3.24, according to AAA. That's down about [...]
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NEW YORK — Busting to go in the Big Apple? Some relief is on the way. New York City is not only getting more public toilets, but making them easier to locate using a smartphone. Mayor Eric Adams recently announced a plan to build 46 new restrooms and renovate 36 existing ones located in city [...]
HONOLULU (AP) — Local officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui voted last week to oppose a U.S. military proposal to build new telescopes on the summit of Haleakala volcano, the latest observatory project to meet objection in the islands. The U.S. Space Force and Air Force want to build a new facility on the [...]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has chosen The Ohio State University to lead a $2.5 million campaign by the federal agency designed to help reduce food loss and waste. Brian Roe, a professor in OSU’s College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, will manage the pilot consumer campaign that’s aimed at lowering the amount of food that [...]
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A Georgia conservation group filed notice of its intent to sue two federal agencies, saying they failed to properly assess the environmental impacts of the $7.6 billion electric vehicle and battery plant Hyundai is building outside Savannah. The Ogeechee Riverkeeper accuses the Army Corps of Engineers of issuing a permit to fill [...]
WAYNESBORO, Ga. (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm last week called for more nuclear reactors to be built in the United States and worldwide, but the CEO of the Georgia utility that just finished the first two scratch-built American reactors in a generation at a cost of nearly $35 billion says his company isn't [...]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — On one side of the classroom, students circled teacher Maria Fletcher and practiced vowel sounds. In another corner, children read together from a book. Scattered elsewhere, students sat at laptop computers and received reading help from online tutors. For the third graders at Mount Vernon Community School in Virginia, it was [...]
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Standing in her living room, Isabel Valencia sets up her makeshift tennis serve with the materials on hand: a green balloon for a ball and a ruler affixed to a paper plate for a racket. She bats the balloon to her home visitor, Mayra Ocampo, and they pass it back and [...]