Stock indexes closed mostly higher on Wall Street after a wobbly day of trading Friday as the S&P 500 notched its third straight weekly gain. Health care, technology and utilities...
July 17, 2020
Miami-Dade County plans to start aggressively enforcing rules designed to combat the rapidly spreading coronavirus as Florida reported more than 11,000 new cases Friday adding to a caseload that is...
July 17, 2020
Authorities in Washington state have started to investigate the cause of a large structure fire that destroyed an apartment building under construction near the Everett waterfront and caused other damage...
July 17, 2020
Receiver A.J. Green signed his one-year, $17.9 million contract Friday after the deadline passed for agreeing to a long-term deal with the Cincinnati Bengals. The club used its franchise tag...
July 17, 2020
As Pennsylvania approached 100,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Friday, restaurant and bar owners say they will fight back against Gov. Tom Wolf's orders to further limit the number...
July 17, 2020
Benchmark U.S. crude oil for August delivery fell 16 cents to settle at $40.59 a barrel Friday. Brent crude oil for September delivery fell 23 cents to $43.14 a barrel....
July 17, 2020
The Missouri tourist town of Branson postponed a vote on whether to impose a mask ordinance after residents repeated deep suspicions of public health experts, the health care system and...
July 17, 2020
New Jersey will ask travelers coming from states with high rates of coronavirus infections to take an online survey beginning next week. The action announced Friday comes on the heels...
July 17, 2020
Leeds United's 16-year exile from the English Premier League is over. Marcelo Bielsa's side secured promotion from the second-tier Championship with two games to spare on Friday after West Bromwich...
July 17, 2020
The peregrine falcon has been named the official city bird of Rockford. The symbolic designation was made Friday not far from the spot where a pair of peregrine falcons produced...
July 17, 2020
A major source of income for roughly 30 million unemployed people is set to end, threatening their ability to meet rent and pay bills and potentially undercutting the fragile economic...
July 17, 2020
Nearly 25,000 people returned to work in June as Idaho's unemployment rate dropped to 5.6%, the Idaho Department of Labor said Friday. The agency attributed last month's 3.4% drop to...
July 17, 2020
By reopening South Carolina after this spring's COVID-19 shutdown, more than 100,000 people went back to work in June, according to unemployment figures released Friday. But also on Friday, doctors...
July 17, 2020
California added a record 558,000 jobs in June as many more businesses reopened but the gains announced Friday by the state are expected to be short-lived because of new closures...
July 17, 2020
Former Federal Reserve Chairs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen urged Congress on Friday to do more to help the economy deal with the devastating coronavirus pandemic, such as extending increased...
July 17, 2020
A $17.3 billion buyout creating the world's biggest casino company won final approval Friday, with New Jersey gambling regulators agreeing to let Nevada-based Eldorado Resorts Inc. acquire Caesars Entertainment Corp....
July 17, 2020
A piece of the last vacant parcel at Miami Worldcenter sold on Friday. The Chicago-based development firm Akara Partners bought an acre from Miami Worldcenter Associates for $18.85 million, according...
July 17, 2020
A freshman Kansas congressman facing felony criminal charges over previously listing a UPS Inc. postal box as his residence on a state voter registration form has been forced to temporarily...
July 17, 2020
The former deputy collector for a rural eastern Missouri county has been sentenced to five years of probation. Kelcey Gresham, of Fredericktown, was sentenced after pleading guilty Thursday to a...
July 17, 2020
When two countries who are supposed to be military allies fall out and almost get themselves into a shooting match, you know there's going to be trouble ahead. The problem...
July 17, 2020
A #MeToo activist said in a court document released Friday that she was “misquoted and misused” by a British tabloid newspaper in an article that accused Johnny Depp of physically...
July 17, 2020
North Carolina's jobless rate fell dramatically in June, the state announced on Friday, as restaurants, hotels and retailers bounced back since Gov. Roy Cooper's COVID-19 restrictions were eased. The state's...
July 17, 2020
Washington NFL owner Dan Snyder said Friday he's committed to improving the culture inside the team after allegations of sexual harassment, while the league will wait for a law firm's...
July 17, 2020
Most of the highest-paid college football coaches have avoided the voluntary salary reductions that have swept Power Five programs, according to an ESPN survey. ESPN surveyed the 65 Power Five...
July 17, 2020
Most of the highest-paid college football coaches have avoided the voluntary salary reductions that have swept Power Five programs, according to an ESPN survey. ESPN surveyed the 65 Power Five...
July 17, 2020
The FA Cup is down to the semifinal stage, offering three young managers a great chance to collect a first piece of English silverware in their coaching careers. The biggest...
July 17, 2020
The FA Cup is down to the semifinal stage, offering three young managers a great chance to collect a first piece of English silverware in their coaching careers. The biggest...
July 17, 2020
Fearing what the coronavirus might do to the power industry, six electric cooperatives in Kansas applied and received up to $20 million total in loans as part of the federal...
July 17, 2020
New York City is on track to allow zoos to open at limited capacity and professional sports without spectators starting next week under the next phase of its reopening plan,...
July 17, 2020
Pennsylvania's unemployment slid a bit down in June after hitting a pandemic peak in April, but it was well above the national rate even as payrolls rebounded by more 230,000,...
July 17, 2020
At least two Mississippi lawmakers are hospitalized because of COVID-19. Democratic Rep. Earle Banks of Jackson said last week that he had tested positive for the virus. His daughter, Kim...
July 17, 2020
Florida's economy showed further signs of recovering from the impact of coronavirus shutdowns in June, adding 296,000 jobs and showing lower unemployment compared with May, the state reported Friday. But...
July 17, 2020
What if there had been a public video? Donnie Sanders' family has been asking the question since March, when the 47-year-old man was fatally shot by a Kansas City police...
July 17, 2020
A Seattle-based cruise line has sold four ships in its fleet as the coronavirus pandemic has halted operations and subsequently slowed businesses that rely on incoming traffic from the industry....
July 17, 2020
Electric utility ComEd has agreed to pay $200 million to resolve a federal criminal investigation into a long-running bribery scheme that implicates Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, federal prosecutors announced...
July 17, 2020
Actor Terry Crews came under fire for an egalitarian message stating that black supremacy will not end well for society. And he's correct, because history has shown that the idea...
July 17, 2020
A person was taken into custody in the killing of a 33-year tech entrepreneur who was found dismembered inside his luxury Manhattan condo, a law enforcement official said Friday. The...
July 17, 2020
Grain futures were mostly higher on Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sept. delivery declined 10.80 cents at $5.3240 a bushel; Sept. corn rose...
July 17, 2020
Florida's unemployment rate dropped to 10.4% in June from the previous month's 13.7% rate as the state's theme parks, beaches and other tourism-related businesses started reopening after weeks of coronavirus-related...
July 17, 2020
The UK government says it's “almost certain” Russia interfered in British elections. Another step down the “highly likely” path of blaming foreigners for its woes, it shows No. 10's desperation...
