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Nevada lithium mine will crush rare plant habitat US said is critical to its survival, lawsuit says
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists and an advocacy group for Native Americans are suing the U.S. to try to block a Nevada lithium mine they say will drive an endangered desert wildflower to extinction, disrupt groundwater flows and threaten cultural resources.
The Center for Biological Diversity promised the court battle a ... (full story)
women at the top
Q: Which Fortune 500 companies are headed by women? -- V.T., Philadelphia
A: As of mid-September, there were 52: Advanced Micro Devices, Automatic Data Processing, Bath & Body Works, Best Buy, CDW, Celanese, Centene, Citigroup, Clorox, Cummins, CVS Health, Dick's Sporting Goods, Duke Energy, DuPont de Nemours, Elevance Healt ... (full story)
Many retailers offer 'returnless refunds.' Just don't expect them to talk much about it
It's one of the most under-publicized policies of some of the biggest U.S. retailers: sometimes they give customers full refunds and let them keep unwanted items too.
Returnless refunds are a tool that more retailers are using to keep online shoppers happy and to reduce shipping fees, processing time and other ballooning costs f ... (full story)
State
Supreme Court suspends attorney after felony assault conviction
The Supreme Court of Ohio recently suspended a former Air Force attorney for two years after his alcohol-fueled violent outburst required police to use gas canisters to remove him from his house.
In a per curiam opinion, the Court suspended William McClain of Warren County and required him to meet five conditions before he can p ... (full story)
Court rejects challenge to Brook Park Fire Chief appointment
The Supreme Court of Ohio recently rejected a request from the former Brook Park interim fire chief to oust the current fire chief from office.
In a unanimous per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court found Fire Chief Mark Higgins was properly installed into office in 2023 after receiving the highest score on the civil service exami ... (full story)
Jury chooses life in prison for man who killed 2 from Vietnam in Las Vegas hotel room in 2018
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada jury decided recently that a man should serve life in state prison with no chance of parole for breaking into a room at a Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino and killing two Vietnamese tour leaders in 2018.
Julius Damiano Deangilo Trotter, 37, was spared a death sentence by the same state court jury that ... (full story)
Mexico City's floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years. Now they're threatened
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Cassandra Garduño squinted in the sunlight, her pink boots smudged by dirt as she gazed out over her family's chinampa — one of the islands first built up by the Aztecs with fertile mud from the bottom of a lake that, later drained, would one day become Mexico City.
Food from these islands h ... (full story)