On the first day of school in 2023, the biggest change Jennifer Scott noticed was the quiet. Over the summer, her two teenagers had provided a steady stream of background noise at home, she said. So when they went back to school, she had the house to herself. It was the quietest work environment Scott […]
She outlasted the “fellas.” The money behind the mission never dried up. In the end, she won a pair of contests — in Washington, D.C., and Vermont. Nikki Haley still came nowhere near the Republican nomination. She couldn’t prevent Super Tuesday from becoming a blowout, with former President Donald Trump cleaning up in red states […]
J.R. Majewski announced Saturday afternoon he will bow out of the GOP primary for a key Ohio congressional seat after a week of waffling on his future in the race. His departure, just two weeks before the March 19 primary, is welcome news for the House Republicans leaders who have maneuvered behind the scenes to […]
A six-story shopping centre that caught fire in the Bangladeshi capital had no fire exits, the country’s prime minister said on Friday, as the death toll climbed to at least 46 and rescuers searched for more victims. The fire started late on Thursday in a restaurant on the first floor of the Green Cozy Cottage […]
The turmoil surrounding New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) intensified again on Thursday when it disclosed the exit of CEO Thomas Cangemi, weaknesses in its internal controls and a tenfold increase in its fourth-quarter loss to $2.7 billion. The stock of the Hicksville, N.Y.-based commercial real estate lender plunged 20% in after-hours trading. The new disclosures […]
North Carolina has ended its incentive grant for the consumer products giant Clorox to add 158 jobs in Durham, days after the California-based company requested the termination. In a Feb. 22 letter to N.C. Commerce Secretary Machelle Baker Sanders, Clorox vice president David Green cited the rise of remote work and changes in “growth strategy […]
Brands Gap Inc. Zac Posen Gap Inc. announced the appointment of American designer Zac Posen to executive vice president, creative director of Gap Inc. and chief creative officer of Old Navy. As creative director of Gap Inc., Posen will serve as a cultural curator and creative partner to CEO Richard Dickson, joining the company’s executive […]
Two Republicans remain in the primary race with just one more full day before New Hampshire voters head to the polls. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis dropped out of the presidential race Sunday and is now endorsing Donald Trump. Trump continues to hit Haley on the campaign trail, saying she isn’t conservative enough. The former U.N. […]
BALTIMORE — Former U.S. Senate candidate Juan Dominguez, a Severna Park business executive, has joined a large field of candidates — including five state lawmakers and a former U.S. Capitol Police officer — vying for the 3rd Congressional District seat being left open by the retirement of Democratic Rep. John Sarbanes. Dominguez, 56, a Democrat […]
Minutes after his surprise appearance, Hunter Biden exited a hearing led by House Republicans aiming to hold him in contempt of Congress for refusing to speak to them behind closed doors about his business practices. President Joe Biden’s son has offered to answer the lawmakers’ questions in a public hearing, and showed up unexpectedly on […]
Dec. 31—MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Commission maintains the lowest tax rate in West Virginia and lowered its budget by roughly 7 % in 2023. That, in and of itself, would constitute a year end story in an age when government has seemingly embraced its role as everyone’s favorite extraction industry. But there’s more. “I […]
Dec. 29—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — O’Shea’s Candies is not renewing its lease on its store at the Westwood Plaza, ending more than 30 years at that location and marking another loss for the Lower Yoder Township shopping plaza. “It was a very tough decision,” O’Shea’s owner Matt Brubaker said. “The sales were not declining, but one […]