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Region witnesses another drop in fuel prices

Staff report Northeast Ohio is joining the nationwide trend of lower fuel prices, according to Monday’s AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. Prices are 28 cents lower in Northeast Ohio this week at $3.933 per gallon. A week ago, prices were $4.218. Last year, regular fuel prices were ...

US stocks drift after oil prices ease and Big Tech stocks fall

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks drifted through a mixed day of trading on Monday after oil prices eased and falling Big Tech stocks weighed on Wall Street. The S&P 500 slipped 0.4%, coming off its 11th winning week in the last 12, and pulled 1.8% below its all-time high set early this ...

Ex-Fed chair Alan Greenspan dies at 100

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Greenspan, the jazz-playing U.S. Federal Reserve chair who was celebrated for engineering a decade of prosperity but later shared the blame for a devastating financial crisis, died Monday. He was 100. Greenspan died from complications of Parkinson’s disease, said ...

Personal touch

NEW YORK (AP) — Many workers fear machines will supplant them as adoption of artificial intelligence accelerates. But what if people have qualities both unmistakably human and essential to career success that AI could not easily replace them? Some workplace experts argue that with more ...

Higher prices for gas, groceries and flights will likely outlast the Iran war

NEW YORK (AP) — A tentative deal to end the Iran war makes it reasonable to ask how soon prices will drop for gasoline, groceries, airline tickets and other items that got more expensive during the conflict. Not so fast, experts say. Even after oil starts flowing again from the Middle ...

5 ways to avoid penalties on your taxes

As a certified public accountant, the most common question I hear in the spring is, “How much do I actually have to pay the IRS right now?” In a perfect world, the IRS wants 90% of your total tax liability paid “ratably” (equally) throughout the year. The problem? Most successful ...