Old and new murals, mosaics portray local history in unlikely public places
Floodwalls have joined the walls of post offices and libraries and the sides of buildings as the canvas for community art.
On target! : Ohio teens finish third in air rifle championship
A team of young Ohio athletes finished third at the National Rifle Association's three-position air rifle junior national championships in Atlanta Aug. 18.
Pesed, a 2,300-year-old Pennsylvania mummy, to vacation in Harrisburg
The Westminster College Cultural Artifacts Collection, will be part of the "Egypt: Untold Journeys" exhibit starting Oct. 20 at the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg.
Superfund cleanup efforts continues to drain billions from taxpayers’ pockets
A new Congress-commissioned report by Resources for the Future scholars Katherine Probst and David Konisky finds that after 20 years and billions of dollars spent cleaning up many of the U.S.'s most contaminated areas the EPA still has a lot more work to do.
BST use leveling off in Wisconsin
With one-sixth of Wisconsin dairy farms using bovine somatotropinwell, the adoption level is well below what was expected in the debate that preceded its commercial release in 1994.
Cleveland Rocks Coin-op show has everything coin-op
The show will be Sept. 14-16 at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds in Berea, featuring all those machines that have ever been operated by putting money into a coinslot.
Detroit: Stove capital of the world
Advertising pamphlets in the culinary collection at the University of Michigan's William L. Clements Library document the products of the no fewer than five major companies that made stoves in Detroit at the turn of the century, and give a picture of the home kitchen a hundred years ago.
Do-it-yourself tooth bleaching kits may cause problems
They have the potential to cause an infection or nerve damage, say oral surgeons at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Mixing hog manure and sawdust into compost could be management option
A University of Illinois extension study found that mixing 50 gallons of slurry with a cubic yard of sawdust created a compost with about 50 percent moisture and no odor that was ready to apply as fertilizer in five months.
Ohio insect carrying new corn virus
Ohio State University and USDA researchers have learned that the black-faced leafhopper, which transmits the maize chlorotic dwarf virus, also transmits a corn virus discovered last year.
