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Norfolk Southern agrees to $600M settlement in fiery Ohio derailment. Locals fear it's not enough
Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement for a fiery February 2023 train derailment in Ohio, but residents worry the money not only won't go far enough to cover future health needs that could be tremendous but also won't amount to much once divvied up.
"It's not nowhere near my ne ... (full story)
What a murderous Winnie the Pooh can tell us about the public domain and remix culture
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The giant stuffed bear, its face a twisted smile, lumbers across the screen. Menacing music swells. Shadows mask unknown threats. Christopher Robin begs for his life. And is that a sledgehammer about to pulverize a minor character's head?
Thus unfolds the trailer for the 2023 movie "Winnie the Pooh: ... (full story)
The Civil War raged and fortune-seekers hunted for gold. This era produced Arizona's abortion ban
As Union and Confederate armies clashed in a bloody fourth year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln tasked one man to create the legal code for Arizona, almost 50 years before the territory became a state.
New York judge William Thompson Howell wrote 500 pages that spanned provisions on dueling, accidental homicides by a ... (full story)
Starting over: Women emerging from prison face formidable challenges to resuming their lives
COLUMBUS (AP) — On a cold and dreary October day, Heather C. Jarvis packed everything she had into a pink duffle and a plastic trash bag and waited for the rest of her life to begin.
Sitting in the lobby of the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, Ohio, she smiled anxiously as her longtime therapist told her she'd be ... (full story)
Bill would restrict use of AI-generated images
Republican sponsors of a bill designed to shield Ohioans from the potentially harmful uses of artificial intelligence made their case to committee members in the Ohio Senate recently.
Sens. Louis Blessing III, of Colerain Township (Hamilton County), and Terry Johnson, of McDermott, told members of the Judiciary Committee that it ... (full story)