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Recycling electronics gaining in popularity
The amount of discarded or unused electronics recycled nationally increased 38 percent between 2006 and 2010, but experts would like to see even more and warn of environmental concerns.The Environmental Protection Agency, which tracks “e-waste” statistics, reported that 649,000 tons of electronics were recycled in 2010. That was just 27 ...
Ohio cracks down on outdoor marijuana sites
Ohio has been one of the country’s most successful states at finding and seizing illegal outdoor marijuana growing operations, part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s decades-long effort to battle what it calls the only major “drug of abuse” grown inside United States borders. Operated by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal ...
More turning to rental cars for short-term travel
More Americans are expected to travel during Labor Day weekend this year, and a growing percentage are turning to rental cars for the short-term trips, according to industry experts. AAA estimates that 33 million Americans will travel during the holiday period, which it defines as Thursday through Monday. The travel ...
OVI awareness heightened for holiday
About 9 percent of Ohio’s traffic fatalities from 2007-11 occurred during six holiday periods, which means authorities will again have increased awareness for reckless or impaired driving during this Labor Day weekend. Seventy-one of last year’s 1,015 traffic fatalities in Ohio occurred on or immediately near New Year’s Day, Memorial ...
High-calorie drinks limited in schools
Beverage companies decreased drink calories offered in schools by 90 percent between 2004 and 2010, according to a recent study, a strategy industry and school officials said was meant to help the country’s fight against childhood obesity. The report comes six years after the country’s major soft drink companies partnered ...
Holiday events prepare for Isaac remnants
Parts of southwest Ohio could see as much as 5 inches of precipitation through Labor Day weekend caused by remnants of Hurricane Isaac, although the storm’s Wednesday movements likely will mean a slight delay of the expected steady rain that is expected to begin Saturday. Because several annual events occur ...
Regional Make-A-Wish chapter approaches 900 wishes for year
The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America chapter that serves Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky is on pace to surpass the 863 wishes that set a national organization record last year and has increased fundraising despite a challenging economy.Officials say the results are important because they indiciate that the well-known organization is maintaining ...
Drought continues as hot, dry weather approaches
Drought conditions in Ohio have improved in the past month, but the region has seen less than half of its usual precipitation so far this year, and a stretch of hot, dry weather is in the forecast. While some lawns have recently regained color due to sporadic rainfall, more than ...
Ohio makes up difference in low-income AP funding
The Ohio Department of Education reached into its own pockets to close a funding gap for a program that helps low-income high school students pay for Advanced Placement tests after the government decreased its support.The Advanced Placement Test Fee Program, operated by the U.S. Department of Education, distributed $21.5 million ...
Cops focusing more on “johns” in prostitution busts
The Dayton and Cincinnati police departments were among those that participated in a nationwide sting operation last week targeting men attempting to buy sex. Focusing on “johns” has become a key strategy in law enforcement’s battle against prostitution. Called “Operation: Buyer Beware,” the initiative was the third in the past ...
Ohio makes up difference in low-income AP funding
The Ohio Department of Education reached into its own pockets to close a funding gap for a program that helps low-income high school students pay for Advanced Placement tests after the government decreased its support.The Advanced Placement Test Fee Program, operated by the U.S. Department of Education, distributed $21.5 million ...
State patrol making more drug busts
The Ohio State Highway Patrol has significantly boosted drug arrests and seizures with an increased focus on what officials call a critical part of the fight against narcotics: their transportation. The patrol reported this week that drug arrests were up 26 percent in the first seven months of this year ...
Workers 'on move' more in better economy
Companies increased employee relocations by 27 percent nationally between 2009 and 2011, which observers say is a signal both of employers’ comfort with the economy and growing confidence that homeowners can sell their properties in order to move. A 2011 survey of 118 companies conducted by workforce mobility association Worldwide ...
Drunk driving deaths buck trend with increase
Deaths from traffic crashes and drunk driving incidents increased slightly in Ohio in 2010 but remained lower than the 2006 total, a trend advocates credit to increased funding and awareness as they warn more progress is needed.Overall traffic fatalities dropped 14 percent from 2006 to 2010 to 1,080, according to ...
Dayton area continues gas price swings
Gas prices edged upward in the Dayton area on Monday, reaching as high as $3.93 per gallon at one area station. Monday’s Dayton-area average was $3.77 per gallon, about nine cents higher than the national average of $3.68 per gallon, according to gas tracking website DaytonGasPrices.com. Gas has recently ranged ...
Special, Senior Olympics see strong turnouts in Ohio
As the Summer Olympics close this weekend, tens of thousands of Ohio athletes continue to train and compete in the Senior and Special Olympics programs that include many of the same sports viewed for more than two weeks throughout the world.Participation in the Special Olympics in Ohio jumped 41 percent ...
Even on foot, distractions dangerous, sometimes fatal
Increases in pedestrian fatalities both nationally and in Ohio have experts concerned that distractions from mobile devices, music or alcohol are equally as dangerous for pedestrians as for drivers. Deaths of pedestrians in traffic crashes increased 4.2 percent (to 4,280) nationally and 9.4 percent (to 93) in Ohio in 2010, ...
Ohio’s CCW permits up, but state trails neighbors
Permits to carry concealed weapons in Ohio have surged this year, but the state still trails its closest neighbors in permits because of what observers call stricter laws that have undergone recent changes. The state’s sheriffs issued 16,823 CCW permits in the first three months of 2012. That was a ...
School facilities commission continues past halfway point
The Ohio School Facilities Commission has reached the halfway point of its mission to upgrade school buildings throughout the state at a cost of more than $10 billion, but faces a future in which its source of funding is no longer clear. The commission announced its most recent project approvals ...
NCR hopes to improve underfunded pensions
NCR Corp. will inject cash and offer a lump-sum payout to eligible employees involved in its pension plan as part of an effort to repair its underfunded pension program, the company announced Tuesday.The company, which moved its headquarters from Dayton to Duluth, Ga., in 2010, will contact the approximately 23,000 ...
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