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Former IRS chief: Can't say how targeting happened
The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status told Congress on Tuesday that he knew little about what was happening while he was still commissioner. Douglas Shulman, who vacated his position last November when ...
Ohio project examines premature births
The March of Dimes is spending $10 million in Ohio for collaborative research into the problem of babies being born prematurely. The project will draw on the expertise of hospitals in Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati to try to explain why babies are born too soon and to find ways to ...
JPMorgan Chase in Ohio sees tax credit approval
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is among several companies that have received approval for job creation tax credits in Ohio. The Ohio Tax Credit Authority on Monday approved assistance for 10 projects expected to create more than 1,100 jobs and retain more than 21,000 positions statewide. The tax credit body reviewed ...
Bruce homers to back Cueto in Reds' win over Mets
Things weren't going well for Johnny Cueto in his return from the disabled list, so he had a conversation — with himself. That's all it took. Cueto responded to the pep talk by striking out six of his last seven batters, then Jay Bruce helped make him a winner by ...
More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obama's spokesman disclosed Monday, expanding the circle of top officials who knew of the audit beyond those named ...
AP source: Treasury told WH of IRS disclosure plan
A Treasury official says the department told the White House twice that the IRS was preparing to make public its targeting of conservative political groups. The official said Monday that Treasury told the White House in late April about a possible speech in which IRS official Lois Lerner would make ...
Public pension employees skip Hawaii conference
Organizers of an annual conference for people who manage more than $3 trillion in public sector pension funds in the U.S. and Canada say a significant number of administrators are skipping this year's meeting in Hawaii to avoid the perception they're wasting money by heading to the island paradise. Roughly ...
Warren Buffett gives young entrepreneurs 10 shares
Meeting Warren Buffett was exciting, but 10-year-old Matthew Meyer said winning $5,000 and 10 shares of stock in Buffett's company made Monday the best day of his life. Matthew said he never expected to make the finals in Omaha, much less win the entrepreneurial contest tied to "The Secret Millionaire's ...
Mariners blow leads, lose 10-8 to Indians
After four losses, three on walk-offs by the Indians in four days, the Seattle Mariners couldn't pack their bags and get to the airport fast enough. "Glad to leave," closer Tom Wilhelmsen said. "Glad to leave Cleveland." Talk about lost weekends. Despite hitting homers in the eighth, ninth and 10th ...
Testing starts at ex-park near Ohio cancer cluster
Whirlpool Corp. began soil and water testing Monday at a former park in a northern Ohio area where cancer has sickened dozens of children for more than a decade. The Benton Harbor, Mich.-based appliance manufacturer has a washing machine factory in the town of Clyde and once owned the nearby ...
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