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PHOENIX (AP) — Karla Finocchio's slide into homelessness began when she split with her partner of 18 years and temporarily moved in with a cousin. The 55-year-old planned to use her $800-a-month disability check to get an apartment after back surgery, but she soon was sleeping in her old pickup protected by her German Shepherd [...]
Last Mile Food Rescue in Cincinnati started shopping in November for a refrigerated box truck to move perishable donations from food retailers to distribution sites. The purchase would take some of the pressure off overstretched volunteers, who would have to make three or more runs in their cars to haul as much food as a [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Nursing home residents are subjected to ineffective care and poor staffing, while facility finances are shrouded in secrecy and regulatory lapses go unenforced, according to a report last Wednesday that called for wholesale changes in an industry whose failures have been spotlighted by the pandemic. To anyone who saw the scourge [...]
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Residents of a five-story apartment building near Miami evacuated this week after an engineer said its foundation was unsound, as officials heighten focus on the safety of aging buildings following last year's deadly Surfside condominium collapse. The evacuations were at the Bayview 60 Homes tower, built in 1972 in North [...]
Power outages from severe weather have doubled over the past two decades across the U.S., as a warming climate stirs more destructive storms that cripple broad segments of the nation's aging electrical grid, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data. Forty states are experiencing longer outages — and the problem is most acute [...]
OMAHA, Neb. — Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly avian influenza. Penguins may be the only birds visitors to many zoos can see right now, because they already are kept inside and usually [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, has never been so busy. "A year ago, we might have been receiving one, maybe two reports a day about a book being challenged at a library. And usually those calls would be for guidance on how to handle [...]
DETROIT (AP) — New vehicles sold in the United States will have to travel an average of at least 40 miles per gallon of gasoline in 2026 under new rules unveiled Friday by the government. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said its fuel economy requirements will undo a rollback of standards enacted under President [...]
The Equine Affaire, one of central Ohio’s most popular annual events that typically draws in thousands of out-of-towners, will allow the public to attend for the first time in three years when it starts Thursday at the Ohio Expo Center. The previous two years the event did not allow public attendance due to the COVID-19 [...]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is allocating nearly $3 billion in disaster relief funding to cover recovery efforts by multiple state and local governments. The Community Development Block Grants announced last week include $2.2 billion to 10 local governments and 13 state governments for 16 major disasters that took place in 2021. These include wildfires [...]