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WASHINGTON (AP) — Years after about 1,900 National Guard and Reserve soldiers were swept up in a recruiting bonus scandal, U.S. Army investigators are reviewing the cases and correcting records because some individuals were wrongly blamed and punished, Army officials said last week. The Army's Criminal Investigation Division said it will complete a review of [...]
WENDOVER, Utah (AP) — In the Utah desert, a treeless expanse of pristine white salt crystals has long lured daredevil speed racers, filmmakers and social media-obsessed tourists. It's so flat that on certain days, visitors swear they can see the curvature of the earth. The glistening white terrain of the Bonneville Salt Flats, a remnant [...]
TAMPA, Fla. — The bell-clanging car rumbled by plots that once held cigar factories but now are glossy developments, and operator Connie Cosme considered how the city had changed since she first stood behind the controls two decades ago. "That was an empty lot," she said from inside Tampa's streetcar No. 431, pointing at a [...]
NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. — When the remnants of Hurricane Ian passed by the Jersey Shore in September, chewing huge chunks out of protective sand dunes, North Wildwood asked New Jersey environmental officials for permission to do an emergency reconstruction of the sand piles. The state said no. The city did it anyway. It plans to [...]
It has been a month since Hurricane Ian wiped out parts of southwest Florida. Now multimillion-dollar cleanup contracts are generating new tempests in the Category 4 storm’s wake. The hiring spree has been funded by an $80 billion earmark to the IRS included in the climate and health-care law signed this summer. The skirmishes offer [...]
The Ohio State University has opened its Controlled Environment Agriculture Research Complex, a new facility that will be used to research technology-based approaches to agriculture. The complex, which includes high-tech greenhouses, uses emerging technology to conduct research and control environmental factors, such as light, humidity, temperature and nutrients, which lead to an extended growing season, [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic devastated many children's well-being, not just by closing their schools, but also by taking away some of their parents' jobs, sickening some family members and teachers, and adding chaos to their daily lives. The scale of the disruption to kids' education is evident in a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively [...]
HOBOKEN, N.J. — After Superstorm Sandy struck the northeast in 2012, an unprecedented effort began to fortify the densely populated coastline against the next big storm. Thousands of homes were raised on pilings. Concrete and steel walls meant to help hold back the sea were hidden beneath rebuilt dunes and beach boardwalks. Tunnels near New [...]
WASHINGTON — Nearly 400 school districts spanning all 50 states and Washington, D.C., along with several tribes and U.S. territories, are receiving roughly $1 billion in grants to purchase about 2,500 "clean" school buses under a new federal program. The Biden administration is making the grants available as part of a wider effort to accelerate [...]
DETROIT (AP) — All summer long, Aleen Hudson kept looking for a new minivan or SUV for her growing passenger shuttle service. She had a good credit rating and enough cash for a down payment, but dealerships in the Detroit area didn't have any suitable vehicles. Or they'd demand she pay $3,000 to $6,000 above [...]