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As the federal government moves toward reclassifying marijuana, there may be little immediate impact in the dozen states that have not already legalized cannabis for widespread medical or recreational use by adults. Advocates for marijuana legalization, however, said they hope a federal regulatory shift could eventually change the minds — and votes — of some [...]
Franklin and Delaware counties lost more farmland between 2001 and 2021 than any other counties in the state, according to a new report by The Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Franklin County lost 16,038 acres of agricultural land during that 20-year span, a 40 percent decrease and the most in [...]
In a mad mix of game-show glitter and marketing flash, Airbnb is offering customers a chance to spend a night in a Paris museum, stay in houses mocked up to look like movie settings or sleep surrounded by eight Ferrari racing cars. Those and other chimerical listings are part of a splashy new campaign by [...]
Two Ohio State University researchers were instrumental in the analysis of a year’s worth of data collected in a groundbreaking survey of dark energy’s impact on the universe, the university announced this week. Postdoctoral astronomy fellow Andrei Cuceu and Ashley Ross, a research scientist at the university’s Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, were integral [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, according to an FBI report released last week that shows a rise in losses through increasingly sophisticated criminal tactics to trick the vulnerable into giving up their life savings. Losses from scams reported by Americans over the age of 60 last [...]
BOISE, Idaho — Months after a catastrophic fire burned more than 2,200 homes in Hawaii, some property owners are getting more bad news — their property insurance won't be renewed because their insurance company has deemed the risk too high. It's a problem that has played out in states across the country as climate change [...]
DETROIT (AP) — In the not-too-distant future, automatic emergency braking will have to come standard on all new passenger vehicles in the United States, a requirement that the government says will save hundreds of lives and prevent thousands of injuries every year. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration earlier this week unveiled the final version [...]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Last summer, Derrika Richard said she felt stuck. She didn't have enough money to afford child care for her three youngest children, ages 1, 2 and 3, yet the demands of caring for them on a daily basis made it impossible for Richard, a hairstylist, to work. One child-care assistance program [...]
NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. — A long-running sandstorm at the Jersey shore could soon come to an end as New Jersey will carry out an emergency beach replenishment project at one of the state's most badly eroded beaches. North Wildwood and the state have been fighting in court for years over measures the town has taken [...]
BISMARCK, N.D. — Supporters of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota are cheering new federal legislation to help build the library and to showcase artifacts of the 26th president, who as a young man hunted and ranched in the state during its territorial days. North Dakota's three-member, all-Republican congressional delegation this month announced [...]