If you're in the market for a new home, you might wonder about the factors contributing to the home's total cost. The National Association of Home Builders recently published a Cost of Construction ...

Experts warn about the possibility of a new pandemic in 2025 as bird flu spreads across all 50 states, impacting American dairy and poultry farms with dozens of people infected. Here's what to know.

Although I’ve spent most of my life as a lapsed Catholic, and have generally regarded the mother church as a corrupt institution, the selection of Pope Francis was, to me, a bit of a miracle. Pope ...

Damien Blade Allen, 22, is accused of posing as a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy and engaging in online conversations with a teenager about violence and mass shootings. Allen, who claimed to be a ...

All 11 students from an upstate New York high school accused of orchestrating an armed kidnapping of a teammate in a prank that "goes way, way beyond hazing" have turned themselves in, according to ...

When Angela Plummer graduated from the University of Dayton with a degree in international studies in 1989, she had a grand vision of working for the United Nations to help save the world. It wasn’t ...

In the mid-1980s, Barb Smoot taught high school math and physics in West Hartford, Connecticut. Working in the “Insurance Capital of the World” prompted her to take actuarial exams and give the ...

Many companies take pride in being customer-focused, but one of the Top Workplaces in Central Ohio believes that helping its customers succeed is possible only with the success of its own employees.

Columbus CEO’s Top Workplaces 2025 recognizes 81 local organizations whose own workers rated them as employers of choice. In addition to these awards, our research partner, Energage, bestowed Special ...

As the daughter of an OB-GYN and a medical researcher, Karen Morrison was all but destined for a career in health care. After 30 years with OhioHealth, it’s clear that Morrison has followed in her ...

Lisa Hinson was 12 when she lost her 52-year-old grandmother to cancer. Years later, her father-in-law died from the disease shortly after his retirement. Hinson says they are the inspiration for her ...

Debbie Penzone grew up in Springfield as part of a big family that loved art, fashion and beauty. As a junior in high school in the 1980s, she gave one of her five brothers a perm so he could feather ...