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The Ohio State University Extension has partnered this week with state Treasurer Robert Sprague to mark Ohio Saves Week — the annual statewide campaign that encourages individuals and families to review their finances. Held in conjunction with a national campaign, this year’s effort plans to highlight key areas that contribute to financial stability — starting [...]
DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) — Meeting with a man whose well water has been polluted for years, officials in the Pennsylvania attorney general's office asked him whether he'd consider accepting a treatment system from the gas driller charged with fouling his aquifer. Not a chance, Ray Kemble told them. "Are you going to drink and bathe [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — It should have been a time of celebration: Brittan Heller would soon graduate from college and head to one of the nation's top law programs. But when a classmate with unrequited feelings for Heller wasn't admitted to that same school, he turned his rage on her. He wrote a manifesto titled [...]
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — On past deployments Army National Guard Spc. Michael Stockwell surveilled a desolate section of the U.S.-Mexico border during a migrant surge, and guarded a ring of checkpoints and fences around New Mexico's state Capitol after the January 2021 insurrection in Washington. On his current mission, Stockwell helps students with assignments as [...]
Designers and lighting companies have been busy coming up with new ways to hold a lightbulb and project light, and winter is a great time to explore their latest solutions. Some are inspired by the skies overhead. Others by style eras, from Deco to disco. Still others are working with interesting materials around which to [...]
The West's megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest in at least 1,200 years and is a worst-case climate change scenario playing out live, a new study finds. A dramatic drying in 2021 — about as dry as 2002 and one of the driest years ever recorded for the region [...]
America's elite colleges are facing growing calls to end the decades-old tradition of giving an admissions boost to the children of alumni — a practice that critics say is rooted in racism and bestows an unfair advantage to students who need it least. Fueled by the national reckoning with racial injustice, opponents say they are [...]
MARION, Ala. (AP) — Bullet holes pock a rusted mailbox outside the vacant home where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott were married in 1953. Part of the old wooden structure has collapsed, as have nearby utility buildings. Most anyplace connected to the best-known voice of the civil rights movement is a magnet for [...]
WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A wealthy California town has abandoned a claim that it can't allow new housing to be built because the whole community is habitat for mountain lions. The Silicon Valley enclave of Woodside said in a statement earlier this week that applications for development of multiple units on lots that have been [...]
From her office in Birmingham, Ala., DeJuana Thompson looks across the street and sees a daily reminder of terror. Her window overlooks the 16th Street Baptist Church, where a bomb in 1963 killed four young black girls. "Living in the era of bomb threats is not new to people of color," said Thompson, president and [...]