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COSHOCTON − Here are three key topics discussed during the latest session of Coshocton City Council: Fire department training facility proposed Council heard the first reading of an ordinance to secure a building for Coshocton Fire Department training purposes. The ordinance is set to have three full readings before a vote. It will be on […]

Most Senate GOP leaders are confronting a dilemma they hoped to avoid: With Donald Trump barreling toward victory in the Iowa caucus next week, do they endorse him or keep holding out? There’s a striking split in the Capitol at the start of primary season, as House GOP leaders line up behind the party’s clear […]

CAIRO – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Thursday, as he concluded a bout of frenetic diplomacy between Israel and its neighbors over the war in Gaza. The visit came a day after Sisi met King Abdullah of Jordan and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in […]

LONDON – Britain’s departure from the European Union has reduced the size of its economy by 6% so far – an annual cost of 140 billion pounds ($178 billion) – London mayor Sadiq Khan said on Thursday, with the shortfall seen reaching 10% by 2035. Khan, a member of the opposition Labour Party, which voted […]

Ohio will transition from relative warmth and record rainfall to frigid snows with wind chills well below zero, all in a matter of a few days. “We’re definitely going to be on some form of a rollercoaster going forward,” Raelene Campbell, a meteorologist with the Cleveland office of the National Weather Service, said Wednesday morning. […]

Sure, at the moment, it looks like Donald Trump will win the 2024 Republican nomination. But it smells a bit like 2016, when there was near unanimity in the press and the political class that he didn’t have a shot in hell against Hillary Clinton. In an unstable, unconventional time, it’s not inconceivable to imagine […]

With much of New Jersey still recovering from Tuesday night’s major storm that dumped 2-3 inches of rain and caused flooding, school delays and road closures, we might already have to brace ourselves for more. North Jersey could be looking at another inch to an inch and a half of rain on Friday night into […]

FILE – FanDuel, DraftKings and other online gambling apps are displayed on a phone in San Francisco, Sept. 26, 2022. Vermont sports fans can now wager online as mobile sports betting launched in the state on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. Republican Gov. Phil Scott says that the regulated marketplace comes with important consumer protections and […]

VILNIUS – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that a ceasefire in the Russian-Ukrainian war would not lead to political dialogue, and would only benefit Russia as this would allow Moscow to boost its supply of munitions. Zelenskiy said Russia was negotiating missile purchases from Iran and that Russian forces had received more than […]

LONDON – The head of Britain’s top advisory body on climate change, Mr Chris Stark, resigned on Jan 11, according to the PA news agency. Mr Stark, who took up the role of chief executive at the independent Climate Change Committee (CCC) in 2018, has been critical of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s environmental policies, saying […]

Donald Trump says his businesses received payments from foreign governments because he was “doing services” for them. Trump was at a Fox News town hall on Wednesday, commenting on a recent report from Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee. The report, published on January 4, said Trump’s businesses had received at least US$7.8 million […]

House Bill 203, sponsored by state Rep. Jeff Hilovsky, R-Millsboro, would require high school students, beginning with students entering the 9th Grade in the 2025-2026 school year, to take and pass a minimum of a half-credit course on financial literacy in order to graduate. This bill follows previous legislation enacted in 2016 that established a […]