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The Ohio Department of Transportation announced a plan to invest $51.1 million in traffic safety improvement projects that specifically address the rise in pedestrian-involved traffic crashes and fatal roadway departures on state and local roads. According to ODOT, fatal crashes involving pedestrians and roadway departures hit a decade-high level in 2021 — 176 pedestrians were [...]
PITTSBURGH — The caretakers of the Tree of Life synagogue intend to transform the site of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history and expand its mission. Newly released design plans show a revitalized complex housing a sanctuary, museum, memorial and center for fighting antisemitism — unified symbolically and physically with a dramatic skylight running [...]
SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. officials announced what they called extraordinary steps to keep hundreds of billions of gallons of water stored in a reservoir on the Utah-Arizona line to prevent it from shrinking more amid prolonged drought and climate change. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation plans to hold back about 480,000 acre-feet of water [...]
Columbus was recently selected as one of 16 municipalities to participate in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration heat-mapping campaign to study and address the “heat island effect,” an occurrence during which areas can be 20 degrees warmer than nearby neighborhoods. “Our community is already experiencing more 90-plus degree days and prolonged periods of extreme [...]
As more facilities around the nation are starting to provide shelter to not only homeless people, but their pets, shelters around central Ohio have not yet embraced that trend. Representatives from several local homeless organizations say they are unaware of any local shelters that provide any type of programs or shelter for homeless people’s pets. [...]
As part of a new initiative at the school, The Ohio State University is recruiting faculty members whose focus will be addressing how race and equity issues converge with STEM education, criminal justice, economic opportunity and engagement with urban communities. Last week 10 additional faculty positions were approved through the Office of Academic Affairs for [...]
NEW YORK — The HBO Max series "The Gilded Age" has brought alive America's post-Civil War renaissance and New York City's cultural awakening in all its Beaux Arts glory. The term, which translates simply as "fine arts," was anything but simple in the hands of the city's wealthiest figures of the time — names such [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The older you are, the less you fret about aging in place. That's a key insight from a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, which found that adults ages 65 or older feel much better prepared to age in their own homes than those 50-64, who are mostly still [...]
MAYWOOD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois childhood home of Fred Hampton, an iconic Black Panther Party leader who was shot and killed during a 1969 police raid of his Chicago apartment, has been designated a historical landmark. In a news release, organizers of the Save The Hampton House initiative, led by Hampton's son and his [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The federal government's nuclear waste repository in New Mexico has major issues in fire training and firefighting vehicles, with its fleet in disrepair after years of neglect, according to an investigation by the U.S. Energy Department's Office of Inspector General. The investigation was spurred by allegations regarding fire protection concerns at [...]