by Star News Staff | Aug 22, 2022
by J.D. Davidson Students in Ohio’s largest school district will begin classes Wednesday remotely after teachers rejected a final contract offer and voted to strike late Sunday night. Columbus Education Association teachers were on the picket line at several...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Aug 22, 2022
The Chief Medical Advisor for President Joe Biden and head of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease (NIAID), who was also the face of America’s COVID-19 response, has announced that he will resign from those positions effective in December....
by Bradley Vasoli | Aug 22, 2022
Republican JD Vance and U.S. Representative Tim Ryan (D-OH-13) are locked in a tight race to represent Ohio in the U.S. Senate, but the GOP is moving to push Vance ahead with a major advertising purchase. The Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) announced Thursday it will...
by Bradley Vasoli | Aug 22, 2022
Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court on Friday ordered three counties to tally undated absentee ballots that county officials previously declined to count. Republican Commonwealth Court President Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer issued the ruling affecting Berks, Fayette and...
by The Center Square | Aug 22, 2022
by Brett Rowland Eric Toney, the GOP candidate running for Wisconsin’s Attorney General, said Milwaukee was one of America’s most dangerous cities. The Fond du Lac district attorney cited homicides within the city are on track to break the record of...
by Kaitlin Housler | Aug 22, 2022
Metro Nashville Police announced that 76 firearms were turned in on Saturday during a ‘gift cards for guns’ event at Greater Revelations Baptist Church. Out of the 76 firearms turned in, 45 of them were pistols. Today's Gift Cards for Guns event in partnership...
by The Center Square | Aug 22, 2022
by Casey Harper Retail sales did not meet expectations and the number of job openings declined in states around the country, newly released federal data show. The U.S. Census Bureau released data Wednesday showing retail sales remained unchanged for the month...
by Kaitlin Housler | Aug 22, 2022
The Murfreesboro City Council voted recently to approve a finalized development agreement with Notes Live, Inc., to open a 4,500-seat, state-of-the-art open-air amphitheater in the Murfreesboro Gateway called The Sunset Music Colosseum on the Stones River. VIDEO...
by The Center Square | Aug 22, 2022
by Bruce Walker Governor Gretchen Whitmer had a mixed result in separate courts on two key issues the Democrat is campaigning on for re-election in 2022: advancing the end of fossil fuel production and maintaining access to abortion without limit in the state...
by Star News Staff | Aug 22, 2022
by Anthony Gockowski Gov. Tim Walz’s very first executive order, issued on his second day in office, established the “One Minnesota Council on Inclusion and Equity.” This is not to be confused with the “Governor’s Community Council on Inclusion and Equity,”...
by Eric Burk | Aug 22, 2022
The Virginia General Assembly will reconvene September 7, which has triggered alarm from pro-choice groups worried that Republicans may try to introduce pro-life legislation. But a spokesperson for Governor Glenn Youngkin said that the session will be focused on...
by Addison Basurto | Aug 22, 2022
Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John King (R) publicly chastised the Allstate insurance company for drastic insurance price hikes in a statement on Thursday. “Allstate raised rates by 14 percent earlier this year. Now, it’s trying to fleece...
by The Center Square | Aug 22, 2022
by David Fidlin Connecticut’s gaming revenue continues to grow and evolve since the heaviest pandemic-induced shutdowns impacted the income source two years ago. A five-year analysis of the state’s gaming-derived revenues, gleaned from data via the state...
by Star News Staff | Aug 22, 2022
by Sam Jackson Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego revealed that the city will receive a $25 million grant to construct the long-proposed Rio Salado Bike/Pedestrian Bridge. She joined Pete Buttigieg, U.S. secretary of transportation, and other community officials at the...
