A Tricked Out Truck, Ohio's Shrinking Labor Force, and More

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Last year, the Ford F-150 Lobo was released as the company's take on a street version of the most popular truck model in the U.S.

The truck was given a lower suspension, 22-inch wheels, and special trim to go with its 400-hp 5.0-liter V-8 engine that could get the 5,320-pound vehicle to 60 mph in about six seconds.

To go from 0 to 60 in a truck like this in six seconds isn't bad, but what if it could be even faster?

That's what MotorTrend wanted to find out, and what they discovered simply by trading out the engine for a different Ford engine is pretty awe-inspiring. Find their experiment results here.

Now that football season is in full swing and the first Football Sunday of the season is just a few days away, we need to start bringing our A game when it comes to food.

Because if refs can add one second to the clock to help the team they like win, then we can have the best Football Sunday spread this world has ever seen.

We've found a list of some delicious-looking recipes; some stupid easy, others that will take some well-worth effort.

Find the recipes here, and let us know if you try any of them. (We're especially interested in the Chili Cornbread Casserole.)

Ohio's unemployment rate fell from 4.9% to 3.4% over the past year, but its labor force shrank from about 6 million to 5.91 million, per BLS data.

Buckeye Institute's Greg Lawson says the drop matters more than headline unemployment numbers, driven largely by an aging population.

Toledo's labor force fell by 7,000, even as manufacturing employment there grew 3.7%, and construction jobs rose 7.6%.

Lawson says the real bottleneck is skills, not job availability, and points to trades training and retaining young workers as keys to Ohio's outlook.

It's a story that's been told so many times that for many, it's begun to feel less like reality and more like legend.

But for millions of Americans, Sept. 11, 2001, is a date that is still very fresh and very real.

Twenty-five years ago tomorrow, the worst terrorist attack on American soil occurred. Nearly 3,000 Americans died, with thousands more, many first responders, dying later due to smoke and debris inhalation. That's thousands of husbands, mothers, sons, daughters.

They say time heals all wounds, but it doesn't heal the empty chairs at a dinner table, the weddings left unplanned, the children growing up without a parent.

So tomorrow, we remember the lives that were lost, and the first responders who ran toward the danger when everyone else was running away. We owe it to them to never forget.

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