Mortgage rates are high, home prices are lofty and selection is slim. There isn’t much to like about the housing market, except for one small positive: more affordable homes are coming onto the market, according to real estate marketplace Realtor.com. In May, the national median listing price inched up 0.3% to $442,500 from a year […]
Michael Curtis is a graduate student with Project Dragonfly at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and resides in Millersport. He can be found cleaning up litter at Buckeye Lake in his free time. Buckeye Lake State Park is a beautiful place being plagued by an ugly human-made problem: litter. With the arrival of summer, people […]
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by authorities as citizens of Tajikistan, some of the thousands who migrate to Russia each year from the poorest of the former Soviet republics to scrape out marginal existences. Along with grinding poverty, Tajikistan is rife with […]
American workers are becoming more productive. Recent analysis from Bank of America showed the average revenue per worker for companies in the S&P 500 hit an all-time high in February after 15 years of no gains. This is one of several signs that labor productivity is rebounding after slumping during 2022. Some on Wall Street think […]
FILE – The Federal Correctional Institution stands in Dublin, Calif., on Dec. 5, 2022. Federal investigators on Monday, March 11, 2024, are again searching the troubled women’s prison, seizing computers and documents in an apparent escalation of a yearslong sexual abuse investigation that led to previous charges against a former warden and other employees. (AP […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it is expanding a program to help rural communities with serious sewage problems get technical help to plan improvements and apply for funding. Eleven communities in the South and Southwest were chosen in 2022 for a pilot program, and another 150 will be able to apply […]
Sales of Palm Beach County single-family homes slumped in 2023 as wary buyers faced higher interest rates and rising insurance costs, but a lack of choices also spiked prices to a median of $597,000. A report released Friday by the Broward, Palm Beaches and St. Lucie Realtors group found last year’s median price was nearly […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A powerline that struck an occupied car Thursday night in Troutdale is just one example of the freezing rain making a mess of local roads and causing outages — particularly in East Multnomah County — just as parts of the greater Portland area were starting to thaw out. The Gresham Fire […]
Law enforcement officers have pressed charges against the officials of the Uzhhorod City Council and a contractor over repairs that caused UAH 700,000 ($18,607) in losses, Ukraine’s National Police reported on Dec. 20. The suspects include the head of a division of one of the departments and the director of a utility company, as well as an individual entrepreneur. […]