Pataskala’s housing boom is continuing in 2024. The Pataskala Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved the first phase of a 153-home subdivision on Refugee Road at its meeting Wednesday. The subdivision is part of a larger development called Hazelton Crossing, on the northwest corner of Ohio 310 (Hazelton-Etna Road) and Refugee Road. A map shows […]
Nigeria has paused a controversial annual levy that would require businesses employing expatriates to pay $15,000 (£12,000) for a director and $10,000 (£8,000) for other workers. President Bola Tinubu imposed the tax over a week ago, but it was met with widespread condemnation. The Ministry of Interior said on X the levy would be paused […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A visit from a rare, fine-feathered tourist has interrupted one of Las Vegas’ prominent shows. The Bellagio said in a social media post Tuesday that it paused its fountains as it worked with state wildlife officials to rescue a yellow-billed loon who “found comfort on Las Vegas’ own Lake Bellagio.” The […]
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court temporarily set aside a judge’s ruling that blocked a Texas law giving state officials broad powers to arrest, prosecute and order the removal of people who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The order on Saturday from the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals means the […]
CANADIAN, Texas — Rapidly moving Texas wildfires Tuesday prompted evacuation orders in small towns and shut down a nuclear facility as strong winds, dry grass and unseasonably warm temperatures fueled the blaze in the state’s rural Panhandle. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for 60 counties as the largest fire burned nearly 400 […]
Rapidly moving Texas wildfires have prompted evacuation orders in small towns and shut down a nuclear facility as strong winds, dry grass and unseasonably warm temperatures fuelled the blaze in the state’s rural Panhandle. Republican governor Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for 60 counties on Tuesday as the largest fire burned nearly 400 square […]
A second IVF provider in Alabama is pausing parts of its care to patients after the state Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are legally considered children. Alabama Fertility Services (AFS) said it has made “the impossibly difficult decision… due to the legal risk to our clinic and our embryologists”. The decision comes a day […]
Alabama’s largest hospital paused IVF treatments on Wednesday as providers and patients across the state scrambled to assess the impact of a court ruling that said frozen embryos are the legal equivalent of children. The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system said in a statement that it must evaluate whether its patients or doctors […]
By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily halted the Boy Scouts of America’s $2.46 billion settlement of decades of sex abuse claims, which is being appealed by a group of 144 abuse claimants. Alito’s brief order freezing the settlement gives the court more time to decide a Feb. 9 […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration is delaying a decision on 17 liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals, including one called CP2 that would be the nation’s largest but which is opposed by environmentalists, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2) facility in Louisiana is twice the size of […]
Despite bitterly cold weather, the season’s first snowfall and a new push to do away with diversity efforts in public schools, more than 1,300 people attended Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast. That was no surprise to Paula Anderson, who has been attending the Alpha Phi Alpha Lexington Unity breakfast for decades. “This event […]
Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota has halted B-1 Lancer flights for at least two weeks as investigators begin probing what downed one of the bombers in a nonfatal crash last week. Regular flying operations in the B-1 at Ellsworth stopped Jan. 5, the day after the accident, and are slated to remain grounded […]