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Families feel the pinch of higher children's shoe prices as kids head back to school
NEW YORK (AP) — When Jonah Seidenberg found out about Nike Minds, a futuristic-looking sneaker that claims to improve concentration by stimulating the soles of the feet, he had to have them.
On a recent Saturday, the 12-year-old from the Chicago suburb of Northbrook and his mother searched StockX, an online sneaker marketp ... (full story)
A surprise credit after an overseas purchase: The tariff refunds now flowing through shippers
NEW YORK (AP) — If you bought something from an overseas vendor last year, it might be time to check your bank account.
Shippers including FedEx and UPS that acted as customs brokers for imported packages and received tariff refunds from the U.S. government have started to pass on those refunds to the customers that origin ... (full story)
Local
Flock announces changes amid backlash over its license plate reader network
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Flock Safety, the surveillance technology company increasingly under scrutiny from lawmakers from both parties, civil liberties advocates and citizens across the U.S., announced Aug. 13 that it is making changes to its platform intended to quell privacy concerns and address documented abuses of its system ... (full story)
Will Poulter and the 'Union County' team take their addiction recovery film on an Ohio tour
CLEVELAND (AP) — A movie star, a filmmaker and a chemical dependency counselor are halfway through a multiday road trip around Ohio and things are starting to get a little goofy.
British actor Will Poulter, Ohio-born and Brooklyn-based writer-director Adam Meeks and Annette Deao, the program director of an adult recovery c ... (full story)
State
How many bears are there in CT? Here’s what it takes to find out.
As it would for the typical U.S. Census taker, the work of counting bears in the woods starts with a clipboard and a blank piece of paper.
Armed with this equipment — along with bear spray and, perhaps more importantly, tick repellent — a team of researchers has been fanning out to hundreds of survey stations set up ... (full story)
Broken engine parts shattered the Ryanair plane window that a passenger's head got sucked into: NTSB
Broken engine parts shattered a window on a Ryanair plane shortly after takeoff in Greece last month, causing a man’s head to be sucked into the hole in the fuselage before his fellow passengers pulled him to safety, U.S. investigators said Aug. 13.
The parts that flew out of the engine after a fan blade broke the window a ... (full story)