A convicted felon on parole has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of three Chicago police officers outside a station, authorities said Friday. Police said Lovelle Jordan, a...
July 31, 2020
Santee Cooper Utility will freeze rates for all residential, commercial and lighting customers starting this month through December 2024. The 4-year rate freeze stems from a settlement agreement in a...
July 31, 2020
Rhode Island mistakenly sent more than 175 tax refund checks signed by Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse, rather than the state treasurer and controller. The Rhode Island Division of Taxation...
July 31, 2020
A museum in Lithuania dedicated to a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews flee Europe in the early years of World War II has been extended an economic lifeline...
July 31, 2020
An organization that successfully proved President Donald Trump violated the law when he blocked Twitter critics sued him anew on Friday, saying he continues to reject some accounts two years...
July 31, 2020
Amazon.com is one step closer to space. The company received government approval to put more than 3,200 satellites into orbit with the goal of beaming internet service to earth. Amazon...
July 31, 2020
Dominion Energy on Friday announced a reorganized executive leadership team, including a new CEO. The Richmond, Virginia-based energy company said Thomas Farrell II, currently chairman, president and CEO, will become...
July 31, 2020
Another month passes. The coronavirus pandemic marches on. And Americans struggling amid the economic fallout once again have to worry as their next rent checks come due Aug. 1. Many...
July 31, 2020
A south Georgia city has started construction on a $1.8 million basin at its sewage treatment plant that's designed to prevent spills into a river that flows into Florida. Valdosta...
July 31, 2020
Despite fears that the coronavirus pandemic will worsen, Victor Gibson said he's not planning to take advantage of Michigan's expanded vote-by-mail system when he casts his ballot in November. The...
July 31, 2020
Nike has filed documents with the state of Oregon that show its recently announced layoffs will eliminate at least 500 jobs at the company's world headquarters near Beaverton. The company...
July 31, 2020
Pharma giants GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur have announced they will supply 100 million doses of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine to the United States as governments buy up supplies in hopes...
July 31, 2020
Basketball legend Charles Barkley provoked the wrath of the mob by saying that players shouldn't feel they have to kneel at games. It appears that if you don't fall in...
July 31, 2020
American consumers increased their spending in June by a solid 5.6%, helping regain some of record plunge that occurred after the coronavirus struck hard in March and paralyzed the economy....
July 31, 2020
Exxon lost $1.1 billion in the second quarter, its economic pain deepening as the pandemic kept households on lockdown, diminishing the need for oil around the world. The Irving, Texas-based...
July 31, 2020
The Duke of Cambridge tried to show his funny side by telling a BBC podcast a supposedly amusing anecdote about laser pens. Predictably, though, he seemed completely unaware of how...
July 31, 2020
Julio Rosell used to pull in up to $7,000 in monthly revenue through the interior design and carpentry business he owns in Hollywood. But things have come to a standstill...
July 31, 2020
The iconic Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables had shrunk to around 50 employees when it learned on April 13 it had been approved for a loan of more than $4...
July 31, 2020
Champagne is losing its fizz. For months, lockdown put the cork on weddings, dining out, parties and international travel — all key sales components for the French luxury wine marketed...
July 31, 2020
The coronavirus can mess with how children will learn at the start of the 2020-21 school year. Miami-Dade, Broward and Florida Keys public schools are all starting online-only, for instance....
July 31, 2020
The economy of the 19-country eurozone shrank by a devastating 12.1% percent during the second quarter from the quarter before as coronavirus lockdowns froze business and consumer activity. It was...
July 31, 2020
Monsoon floods have swamped large parts of India's densely populated Bihar state and displaced more than 300,000 people by Friday, officials said, exacerbating the risk of the coronavirus and stymieing...
July 31, 2020
Jennifer Stockburger, a mother of two children, worries about the safety of her 16-year-old son who just started driving with a learner's permit. "Yikes," she said. "When you've got a...
July 31, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has inspired a new wave of technology closely tied to Ohio businesses, including thermal imaging and facial recognition software which can detect fevers among employees, a common...
July 31, 2020
A laundromat operator imploring friends and relatives to trade their stashes of quarters for his dollar bills. A restaurant offering customers free drinks instead of nickels and dimes. Supermarkets issuing...
July 31, 2020
The average age of a vehicle on U.S. roads has climbed to almost a dozen years. It's part of a long-term trend of people holding on to their cars, trucks...
July 31, 2020
Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Friday as data and corporate earnings capture dismal portrayals of the coronavirus pandemic's impact on world economies. Market players are monitoring financial reports...
July 31, 2020
Self-described ‘Minor Attracted Persons' are getting a free pass to use social media to push their twisted, rebranded agenda of having sex with children. It's time to act, Jack Dorsey....
July 31, 2020
Tourism operators across Asia and the Pacific are making furtive and faltering advances, as well as some spectacular missteps, after travel was largely halted by the coronavirus pandemic that continues...
July 31, 2020
NBA LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Players and coaches from the New Orleans Pelicans, Utah Jazz, Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers knelt alongside one another before the...
July 31, 2020
A bridge connecting Wickliffe, Kentucky, and Cairo, Illinois, will close Saturday for extensive maintenance, meaning a long detour for those traveling between the cities, officials said. The U.S. 51 Ohio...
July 31, 2020
For centuries, sultans and princes, saints and scholars, elites and commoners have been buried in two sprawling cemeteries in Egypt's capital, creating a unique historic city of the dead. Now...
July 31, 2020
President Donald Trump repeatedly tests the Republican Party's limits on issues including race, trade and immigration. On Thursday, he struck a boundary. GOP officials from New Hampshire to Mississippi to...
July 31, 2020
California's leaders were deadlocked and on the verge of financial catastrophe in 2008. Five negotiators, including Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, couldn't agree on a budget that would guide the nation's...
July 31, 2020
Two American oil executives jailed in Venezuela have been released and granted house arrest in the South American nation, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said late Thursday. The two...
July 31, 2020
State Sen. Iris Martinez, a respected and influential state and national Democratic Party leader, on Thursday joined a burgeoning group of Democratic lawmakers — all women — calling for Michael...
July 31, 2020
Ellen DeGeneres apologized to the staff of her daytime TV talk show amid an internal company investigation of complaints of a difficult and unfair workplace. “On day one of our...
July 31, 2020
Gov. Gavin Newsom has appealed directly to investor Warren Buffet to support demolishing four hydroelectric dams on a river along the Oregon-California border to save salmon populations that have dwindled...
July 30, 2020
California lawmakers accused the leader of the state's unemployment department of failing the public in a tense hearing Thursday that featured stories of people waiting weeks or months to receive...
July 30, 2020
Kentucky's governor reported an uptick in coronavirus cases Thursday but signaled that the outbreak might be leveling off after surging infections hit the state earlier this month. The state posted...
