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As another winter storm arrives in Northeast Ohio, road crews with the Ohio Department of Transportation are on-duty around the clock. This article was originally published by a fox8.com . Read the Original article here. .

AVON LAKE, Ohio — The Ohio Department of Transportation is looking for your feedback on a study to improve safety and congestion because of Ford Ohio Assembly Plant’s expansion in Avon Lake.News 5 reached out to the Ohio Department of Transportation on Friday, and they weren’t available for an interview.However, according to a study on ODOT’s website, the department said there have been more than 1,400 reported crashes from 2019 to 2023 in the area.Sheffield Lake local Craig Lewis said he’s noticed a few more crashes in recent years.However, he said it doesn’t seem like a regular issue.Still, he’s glad…

Money was pledged to clean it up but two years later, it’s empty and covered in litter. Those who live on the city’s East Side say they’re tired of looking at it. This article was originally published by a www.wkbn.com . Read the Original article here. .

France TV Washington, a French-language news service, turned to a University of Cincinnati journalism professor to examine Facebook’s announced decision to abandon fact-checking in public posts in favor of community notes similar to those used by the social media site X.UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Jeffrey Blevins is co-author of the 2024 book “Social Media and Digital Politics: Networked Reason in an Age of Digital Emotion.”Blevins said the change is likely a response to last year’s election of Donald Trump, who has threatened to jail journalists who will not disclose confidential sources and to strip broadcasting licenses from…

SCOTUS hears arguments on TikTok as U.S. ban looms – CBS Chicago Watch CBS News Justices heard arguments on Friday regarding a looming ban that goes into effect in just over a week unless TikTok’s China-based owner sells the platform. The government calls the app a security threat, while influencers say their livelihood is at stake. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On This article was originally published by a www.cbsnews.com . Read the Original article here. .

A ban on all vape imports took effect this week in Bangladesh. With no domestic vaping product manufacturers, the import prohibition is essentially an outright vape ban.“It is necessary to take urgent measures to ban these products and ensure the public health and safety of future generations,” the Health Department of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced in December.The ban was proposed at a cabinet meeting in December by the country’s Health Services Division, according to BD News. The final rule was announced Jan. 7 by the Ministry of Commerce.Several vape import trade groups asked the government in December to reconsider…

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Notre Dame punched its ticket to the national championship on Thursday. Will Ohio State or Texas join them? That answer will be revealed Friday night when the Buckeyes face the Longhorns in a battle of two historic programs. Ohio State has been the most dominant team thus far in the College Football Playoff. Coach Ryan Day’s squad opened with a 42-17 win against No. 9 seed Tennessee and then crushed No. 1 seed Oregon 41-21 at the Rose Bowl. The latter matchup saw the Buckeyes get out to a 34-0 lead. Texas, led by former Ohio State quarterback Quinn Ewers,…

Text size A US judge held former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court on Friday for continuing to defame two Georgia election workers. Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, was ordered by a federal jury in Washington in December 2023 to pay nearly $148 million to Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss for repeatedly making false claims that they engaged in 2020 election fraud. At a court hearing in Washington on Friday, District Judge Beryl Howell found Giuliani in contempt and threatened him with potential fines if he continues to make defamatory remarks about the…

Alice Weidel, parliamentary group leader, party chair and candidate for chancellor of Germany’s AfD, prepares for a live X interview with U.S. billionaire Elon Musk in her office in the Jakob Kaiser House in Berlin, on Thursday. Kay Nietfeld/DPA-Pool/AP hide caption toggle caption Kay Nietfeld/DPA-Pool/AP BERLIN — Roughly 200,000 users logged onto the social media platform X on Thursday to listen to the world’s richest man court Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate for the far-right Alternative for Germany party. Elon Musk’s recent endorsement of the party, known by its German initials AfD, and Thursday’s heavily publicized livestreamed chat have infuriated…