SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — About 20 cars of a Norfolk Southern cargo train derailed near Springfield Saturday evening, the second derailment of the company's trains in Ohio in a month, officials said. But unlike the Feb. 3 derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, a company spokesperson said there ...
COLUMBUS,(AP) — Intel will invest $20 billion in a new computer chip facility in Ohio amid a global shortage of microprocessors used in everything from phones and cars to video games. After years of heavy reliance on Asia for the production of computer chips, vulnerability to shortages of crucial chips were exposed in the U.S. and Europe as they began to emerge economically from the pandemic. The U.S. share of the worldwide chip manufacturing market has declined from 37% in 1990 to 12% today, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association, and shortages have become a potential ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Ohio contributed more than just locations for “The Shawshank Redemption,” a film that has risen in popularity every year since its September 1994 release. Many actors from across the state were cast in roles important enough to win them on-screen credit. The most prominent Ohio native in the movie based on Stephen King’s novella is Clancy Brown, an imposing presence as vicious captain of the guard Byron Hadley. Although Brown already was established as an actor in Hollywood when “The Shawshank Redemption” began filming in Mansfield, Upper Sandusky, ...
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A gunman wearing body armor and carrying extra magazines opened fire in a popular nightlife area of Dayton, Ohio, killing nine and injuring dozens, authorities say, in the second U.S. mass shooting in less than 24 hours. Dayton police patrolling the area responded in less than a minute to the shooting, which unfolded around 1 a.m. Sunday on the streets of the Oregon District, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley said at a press conference. Whaley said if the police had not responded so quickly, “hundreds of people in the Oregon District could be dead today.” The Oregon ...
COLUMBUS — State lawmakers failed this weekend to meet a statutory deadline for agreement on a two-year operating budget for Ohio for the first time since 2009. With time running out to meet Sunday’s deadline, the Ohio Senate late Saturday night approved a 17-day stopgap measure to fund state government to allow more time for reaching an agreement on a two-year budget. The House approved the interim budget Sunday night and Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed it. A joint House-Senate committee has been working through differences in the $69 billion spending bill in an attempt to ...
COLUMBUS — A state lawmaker has introduced legislation that would require school districts in Ohio to name a valedictorian and a salutatorian. The House bill introduced by Republican state Rep. Niraj Antani, of Miamisburg, comes after Mason High School in southwestern Ohio decided that it will stop awarding those academic honors. Many schools traditionally have bestowed the valedictorian title on the graduating student with the highest cumulative grade-point average. The salutatorian title traditionally has gone to the student with the second-highest average. Antani says the gist ...
