Schererville resident Tiffany Leigh's chihuahua Millie is generally attached to her, but never more so than during the coronavirus pandemic that has left many people working from home. They're basically...
August 2, 2020
Business owners and local officials predicted the decision to cancel the NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International later this month will be a major economic loss for the...
August 2, 2020
A text message circulating among Pac-12 football players is encouraging them to opt-out of practices and games until they can negotiate protections and benefits related to health and safety, economic...
August 1, 2020
President Donald Trump's TikTok takedown might seem like an easy win for his anti-China campaign strategy. But he's losing ground in a bigger fight as the world's most powerful companies...
August 1, 2020
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says he's confident his sport can get through the regular season and postseason without being stopped by the coronavirus, though not every team might play all...
August 1, 2020
What have skateboarding Muslims and kneeling quarterbacks got in common? They're all part of the same social justice struggle, according to Nike. Ladies and gentlemen, I regret to inform you...
August 1, 2020
The costs of expanding Georgia Power's nuclear plant are growing, and at least part of the price hike is tied to the coronavirus outbreak and the rising number of workers...
August 1, 2020
Nearly 4,000 student laptops are missing in one South Carolina school district and officials say they will soon have to turn the matter over to police. Greenville County's public school...
August 1, 2020
North Carolina television stations have pulled a Republican attack ad against Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham off the air after his campaign said the ad wasn't truthful. The Charlotte...
August 1, 2020
Tucked between the Delaware River and canal path just north of New Hope lies a quaint English village Eleanor Miller calls home. “When I'm walking along the road out front,...
August 1, 2020
United Airlines has announced that it will increase flights next month as it resumes service on more than 25 international routes and begins gearing business toward leisure air traffic because...
August 1, 2020
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Florida health officials have reported 179 new deaths from the coronavirus, bringing the state's total to more than 7,000. The latest numbers came Saturday as Hurricane...
August 1, 2020
Unable to inflict real punishment on Polish President Duda, the EU has hit out at the eastern Europeans for their anti-LGBTQ feelings by denying municipalities access to the twin town...
August 1, 2020
Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, is likely to become an official paid holiday for King County employees, under legislation advanced by the Metropolitan...
August 1, 2020
Federal health officials say an outbreak of salmonella infecting nearly 400 people in more than 30 states has been linked to red onions, and identified a California company as the...
August 1, 2020
Amid work to address systemic racism under a national spotlight, Portland, Oregon, Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty says she has been sent a high volume of racist messages. Hardesty, a former...
August 1, 2020
A pair of NASA astronauts face the final and most important part of their SpaceX test flight: returning to Earth with a rare splashdown. Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken took...
August 1, 2020
Since the coronavirus pandemic began keeping visitors at home, the jaguars and chimpanzees at the Oakland Zoo have enjoyed the quiet, venturing out to areas of their exhibits they usually...
August 1, 2020
Chicago-area residents who have made careers out of flipping foreclosed or decrepit homes for profit say the coronavirus pandemic that's hurt many businesses hasn't had much impact, so far, on...
August 1, 2020
Residents near a middle Georgia power plant are suing Georgia Power Co., alleging the plant is poisoning their well water. The suit filed Wednesday in Fulton County Superior Court alleges...
August 1, 2020
A North Carolina woman whose refusal to go to the back of a bus in 1952 led to a lawsuit that sparked a change in law is being honored with...
August 1, 2020
Two shopping malls in Mississippi are being renamed by their parent company. Vicksburg Mall is now called Uptown Vicksburg, and Bonita Lakes Mall is now called Uptown Meridian. The change...
August 1, 2020
Fearful of losing federal pandemic dollars, officials from states across the country are rushing to finish projects by the end of the year aimed at expanding broadband internet into underserved...
August 1, 2020
The UK government's awarding of a peerage to Evgeny Lebedev has been presented as ‘proof' of a sinister Russian plot, but the simple truth is that he's just another very...
August 1, 2020
After a rocky transition to distance learning last spring, Georgia teacher Aimee Rodriguez Webb is determined to do better this fall. She bought a dry-erase board and a special camera...
August 1, 2020
Can hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) be a treatment option for Covid-19, or should it be banned? You and I may never know, because Google, Twitter and Facebook are censoring science & information...
August 1, 2020
Heads snapped and eyes rolled when President Donald Trump made a case for considering an election postponement in the pandemic. Republican and Democratic lawmakers, who agree on precious little, said...
August 1, 2020
China's ByteDance Ltd. is prepared to sell 100% of TikTok's U.S. operations as a way to head off a proposed ban on the music-video site by President Donald Trump, said...
August 1, 2020
While the UK has agreed to allow a small group of children to return from Syrian internment camps where they were abandoned or orphaned, its confused policy over adult returnees...
August 1, 2020
As the Nov. 3 presidential vote nears, there are fresh signs that the nation's electoral system is again under attack from foreign adversaries. Intelligence officials confirmed in recent days that...
August 1, 2020
NEW DELHI — India recorded the steepest spike of 57,118 new cases in the past 24 hours, taking its coronavirus caseload close to 1.7 million, with July alone accounting for...
August 1, 2020
NEW DELHI — India recorded the steepest spike of 57,118 new cases in the past 24 hours, taking its coronavirus caseload close to 1.7 million, with July alone accounting for...
August 1, 2020
Almost two years since a wildfire swept through his mountain town and virtually wiped it out, Steve “Woody” Culleton got to put the final touches on his new home. Two...
August 1, 2020
Almost two years since a wildfire swept through his mountain town and virtually wiped it out, Steve “Woody” Culleton got to put the final touches on his new home. Two...
August 1, 2020
The White House and its GOP allies appear to be retreating from their opposition to a $600-per-week supplemental unemployment benefit that has propped up the economy and family budgets but...
August 1, 2020
President Donald Trump said he will take action as soon as Saturday to ban TikTok, a popular Chinese-owned video app that has been a source of national security and censorship...
August 1, 2020
Opening a restaurant during a pandemic can seem impossible. After placing orders for a cold pressed juice machine and the perfect furniture for the sitting area, Kenya MomPremier had no...
August 1, 2020
In 1989, Jimmy Koikos, the longtime co-owner of Bessemer's historic Bright Star restaurant, began an annual tradition that has become known as A Night in New Orleans. Jamie Shannon from...
August 1, 2020
T.J. Riddle carefully stacked a piece of crispy fried fish atop a mound of white cheddar cheese grits. Eyeing it from every angle, he made sure that it was plated...
August 1, 2020
Revenue at President Donald Trump's Washington, D.C., hotel and several of his biggest clubs and resorts mostly held steady last year before the coronavirus forced many to shut their doors...
