New spin on ‘signing day’ shows off student job offers
WAPAKONETA — Wapakoneta High School seniors who accept job offers before graduation are celebrating their new jobs at ceremonial job signing days.
Detroit enclave built on auto industry struggles under $20M water debt
HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) — Kevin Houston scanned the Michigan street where his fixer-upper and older homes bridge gaps between the vacant, overgrown lots and abandoned, ramshackle houses, boarded-up businesses and potholed streets of Highland Park.
Push for transit, walkable communities growing across US
ATLANTA (AP) — On the weekend in March when Brittany Glover would have turned 34, her mother stood on the same busy road in Atlanta where her daughter died six months earlier.
Dubai’s next big thing? Perhaps a $5 billion man-made ‘moon’ as the city’s real...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Who says you cannot reach for the moon? A proposed $5 billion real estate project wants to take skyscraper-studded Dubai to new heights — by bringing a symbol of the heavens down to Earth.
At least 9 dead in stampede at soccer stadium in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — At least nine people were killed and dozens more injured when stampeding soccer fans pushed through one of the access gates at a quarterfinal match in the Salvadoran league Saturday.
FDA advisers back RSV vaccine for pregnant women that protects their newborns
WASHINGTON (AP) — A first-of-its-kind RSV vaccine for pregnant women guards their newborns against the scary respiratory virus -– and federal health advisers on Thursday backed Pfizer’s shot despite some lingering questions.
More than 30 million US drivers don’t know if they’re at risk from a...
DETROIT (AP) — More than 33 million people in the United States are driving vehicles that contain a potentially deadly threat: Airbag inflators that in rare cases can explode in a collision and spew shrapnel.
Philanthropy helps boost manufacturing in areas with high job vacancies
CLEVELAND (AP) — Mary Lamar had been searching for a job that was a good fit.
The pandemic widened gaps in reading. Can one teacher ‘do something about that’?
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Richard Evans makes his way through rows of his students in his third grade classroom, stooping to pick up an errant pencil and answering questions above the din of chairs sliding on hardwood floors.
Tips to keep a vehicle on the road
DETROIT (AP) — With the average new-vehicle price in the U.S. at nearly $48,000 and the cost of a used automobile averaging almost $29,000, many people are getting repairs done and keeping their vehicles longer.
