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Heading to college?

NEW YORK (AP) — Heading off to college is exciting, but it also involves new adult responsibilities. That makes it a great time to start getting comfortable with credit, building healthy spending habits and learning how to manage money. It’s important for all students to build a solid ...

Southwoods Health completes major expansion, renovation

Southwoods Health announced last week the completion of a multimillion-dollar, 40,000-square-foot expansion and renovation project at The Surgical Hospital at Southwoods, Boardman. While healthcare design has evolved significantly since the hospital first opened in 1996, Southwoods’ core commitment to providing an exceptional patient experience remains unchanged, the healthcare system said. The new upgrades prioritize patient privacy with larger, modernized and more comfortable spaces designed to foster a calming environment before and after medical procedures. Patient comfort is ...

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COHORT GRADUATE: Mara Cunningham, founder of Yo! Crash and a client of the Minority Business Assistance Center, an Ohio Department of Development program hosted at YBI, has graduated from Goldman Sachs’ One Million Black Women Black in Business Cohort 9. The program is a national business education program held at Goldman Sachs’ New York headquarters. Cunningham was one of 305 entrepreneurs selected for Cohort 9 out of thousands of applicants, an acceptance rate of about 6%. The cohort collectively represents more than $25 million in revenue and completed 100 hours of coursework ...

Cadillac Lyriq’s launch control is exhilarating

If you left this planet a few decades ago, you missed Cadillac’s transformation from a floaty land yacht to a high-performance vehicle competing with six figure domestic and imports. The V-Series Cadillac started the trend in 2004 going head-to-head with BMW’s M Series. It was followed by the Blackwing supercharged track car six years later boasting 668 horsepower while hitting the 60 mile-per-hour mark in 3.4 seconds. The evolution continued with a luxury plug-in hybrid in 2013 offering 37 miles of electric power but the ELR model fizzled three years later due to its high ...

Wall Street slips from its record following the latest weak update on the US economy

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market edged back from its all-time high Friday following the latest report on the economy to come in surprisingly weak, this time about how much shoppers are spending at retailers. Such data could keep interest rates low, which is something Wall Street loves, but it also raises the risk of a slowing economy when inflation is still high. The S&P 500 slipped 0.2% from its record set the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 107 points, or 0.2%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.3%. Stocks gave up modest gains from early in the morning after ...