Bumble Bee Foods admits price fixing
SAN FRANCISCO — The popular tuna-canning company Bumble Bee Foods has agreed to pay a $25 million fine after pleading guilty to conspiring with competitors to fix prices.
SAN FRANCISCO — The popular tuna-canning company Bumble Bee Foods has agreed to pay a $25 million fine after pleading guilty to conspiring with competitors to fix prices.
A North Toledo woman pleaded not guilty today to driving her vehicle while drunk over the weekend with her 18-month-old in the backseat, court documents show.
NEW YORK — The S&P 500 ended flat on Monday after briefly touching a record high, while Wall Street's “fear gauge" dropped to its lowest in over two decades following centrist Emmanuel Macron's victory in the French presidential election.
RICHMOND, Va. — A challenge to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban appears to hinge on whether a federal appeals court agrees that the Republican’s past anti-Muslim statements can be used against him.
FRASER, Mich. — Dora Linda Nishihara was driving in San Antonio one dark evening in early December when she suddenly disappeared from sight. Later, her car, with her body inside, was found at the bottom of a 12-foot-deep water-filled sinkhole that had swallowed the road ahead of her.
BEIRUT — Syria today dismissed the idea of foreign forces patrolling four so-called de-escalation zones that are to be established under a deal struck by Russia, Iran and Turkey, suggesting Damascus would only settle for Russian “military police” who are already on the ground.
SAN FRANCISCO — Three judges appointed by President Bill Clinton will hear the appeal of Hawaii’s challenge to President Trump’s travel ban targeting six predominantly Muslim countries.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will name nearly a dozen federal judges as nominees for key posts today as President Donald Trump works to pack the nation’s federal courts with more conservative voices.
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie today signed legislation inspired by former “Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi that limits how much state universities can pay speakers.
NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans preservationist today sued to stop the city from removing a statue of a Confederate general that critics say glorifies the era of slavery in the U.S. South.
NEW YORK — Warren Buffett said today that United Airlines bungled the case of the passenger dragged off a plane last month, and he is criticizing the CEO’s handling of the incident.
On Saturday, Kim Mi-ok waited in a Chinese border city for her husband to step off the train from North Korea.
Two investigators with the State Fire Marshal's Office testified today that their accelerant-detecting dogs alerted on several areas at the Magnolia Street building where the owner is on trial for setting a deadly fire.
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COLUMBUS — An appellate judge who made critical comments from the bench about the founder of an on-line school will not be removed from a case that could determine whether Ohio can claw back millions in the school’s aid.
COLUMBUS -- About 50 protesters showed up unexpectedly at the Ohio Union on the Ohio State University campus today to urge U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R., Ohio) to break party lines and vote against the Trump administration health plan, which would replace the Affordable Care Act.
ATLANTA — The alarming video on Facebook Live of a Georgia teenager livestreaming her own suicide attempt stayed up long enough to help sheriff’s deputies save her.
A Maumee man was cited for inducing panic Saturday after he threatened to jump off a ProMedica Toledo Hospital parking garage, according to Toledo police.
MONROE — Two and a half years after a 22-year-old Maybee, Mich., woman went missing, jury selection began this morning in the trial for her accused killer.
President Barack Obama warned Donald Trump against hiring Michael Flynn as national security adviser during an Oval Office meeting after the 2016 election, according to three former Obama administration officials.
The University of Toledo announced today that men’s golf coach Jamie Broce has been relieved of his duties, effective immediately.
NEW YORK — Sinclair Broadcast Group, already the nation’s largest local TV station operator, wants to be even bigger.
RICHMOND, Va. — After a series of stinging legal defeats, President Donald Trump’s administration hopes to convince a federal appeals court that his travel ban targeting six Muslim-majority countries is motivated by national security, not religion.
COLUMBUS—Unopposed this year as she seeks re-election as Dayton’s mayor, Nan Whaley announced today that she will join the growing pool of Democrats seeking the party’s nomination to take back the Ohio governor’s office next year.
France's president-elect Emmanuel Macron has promised to "fight the divisions that undermine France," after defeating far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.