Tuesday's News

For years, decades even, corn and other food grown in Ohio has ended up on dinner tables around the world, from China to Europe and most places in-between. Exporting corn, soybeans, wheat and other commodities not only has helped feed people in other countries, but also has proven vital to the financial health of Ohio's agriculture industry.

In an effort to revitalize property that currently is home to empty buildings and factories, Rep. Barbara Sears, R-Sylvania, has introduced House Bill 569 into the Ohio General Assembly. The legislation would authorize refundable tax credits through 2015 for the voluntary remediation of a contaminated site and for transforming that site back into productive use.

Just as Ohio mayor's courts report a rise in the number of new cases filed in 2009 - a reversal of a four-year trend, an excess of overdue, pending cases also surpassed the 2008 level. The 2009 summary of the state's 330 mayor's courts reported of the 307,756 new cases reported last year, 4,159 were pending beyond the six-month recommended timeframe.

In accepting her honor as 2010 recipient of the Public Service Award from the Moritz College of Law Alumni Society, Susan G. Tobin said she was proud to be a member of the law profession and offered encouragement to the incoming class of law students at The Ohio State University.

A Cincinnati federal appeals panel upheld an earlier ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District Court of Ohio denying an inmate's motion for sentence modification in a 3-0 decision last week.

Hoping to portray themselves as more affordable and all-around better neighbors, private colleges from Appalachia to Boston are sweetening financial aid packages for students from their own backyards.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. will be able to continue posting content from The Associated Press under a new licensing deal the two companies announced Monday after months of sometimes thorny negotiations.

NEW YORK - Economists are satisfied with the Federal Reserve's current interest rate policy, but they're divided over how the central bank should proceed over the next 12 months, a new survey finds.