Sam Anello, charged with negligent homicide after his 18-month-old granddaughter Chloe Wiegand fell to her death off a Royal Caribbean ship last July, has changed his plea to guilty. “I...
February 26, 2020
Federal officials say a utility company blamed for a series of natural gas explosions in Massachusetts has agreed to plead guilty to breaking pipeline safety laws. The U.S. Attorney''s Office...
February 26, 2020
Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New York's newspapers: The Lessons of #MeToo's Monster The New York Times Feb. 24 What does the hard-won, long-overdue conviction of Harvey...
February 26, 2020
Police in Burundi say they have killed 22 “evil-doers” near the country's economic capital, Bujumbura. Police spokesman Pierre Nkurikiye asserted to reporters Tuesday that the group “took advantage of the...
February 26, 2020
You have no excuses now that the holidays have ended: It's time to book travel for the wedding(s) you agreed to attend in 2020. Whether you're going to an exotic...
February 26, 2020
State officials will seek bids this spring from companies to run buses between Lincoln and Omaha, a service aimed at the thousands of people who commute between the cities daily....
February 26, 2020
Ananimal rights advocacy group announced plans to erect a billboard memorializing 21 cows that were killed when a truck transporting them for slaughter overturned in North Carolina last week. People...
February 26, 2020
Gyms are occupying a larger footprint in the local retail market. A 36,257-square-foot space leased by California-based 24 Hour Fitness was the region's largest in the fourth quarter of 2019,...
February 26, 2020
Sales are up across Miami-Dade County and Broward, according to the latest Miami Association of Realtors report. And it's not just snowbirds from the northeast driving activity. Millennials, and their...
February 26, 2020
A leading Israeli venture capital firm said Wednesday it has hired the Trump administration's former Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt as a business developer for the region. OurCrowd said the former...
February 26, 2020
Mahathir Mohamad said Wednesday that he will return as Malaysia's prime minister if he has majority support from Parliament, as the king completed two days of consultations withlawmakers to resolve...
February 26, 2020
New vehicles are more technologically advanced than ever. A car today can mirror your smartphone on its center display screen, warn you of objects in your blind spot, brake on...
February 26, 2020
A man who ran a tax return preparation business in north-central Iowa has pleaded guilty to helping file false returns. Prosecutors also said David Miller, 52, of Gilmore City, pleaded...
February 26, 2020
Despite record profits last year, Peugeot maker PSA Group said Wednesday it lost 700 million euros ($760 million) in China — and that was before the new virus hit a...
February 26, 2020
Germany's highest court ruled Wednesday that a 2015 law banning assisted suicide when being conducted on a "business basis" is unconstitutional. Federal Constitutional Court Judge Andreas Vosskuhle said in the...
February 26, 2020
Delaware lawmakers are continuing to hear spending requests from state agencies following Gov. John Carney's proposal last month to increase the government's operating budget by almost 4% next fiscal year....
February 26, 2020
A California man who pleaded guilty to conspiring to obtain hundreds of stolen televisions worth more than $1 million was sentenced this week in Maryland to four years in federal...
February 26, 2020
Los Angeles County firefighters responded to a large refinery fire that temporarily closed all lanes of the 405 Freeway Tuesday night in the city of Carson. KTLA-TV reports that massive...
February 26, 2020
The Hampton City Council is considering a resolution that would change a street named for a Confederate general to one named for Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man...
February 26, 2020
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services says it expects to administer nearly $540,000 in federal grants for the development of specialty crops. The agency said in a news...
February 26, 2020
A Korean manufacturer of water heaters plans to build its first U.S. facility in Virginia. Gov. Ralph Northam said Tuesday that Navien, Inc. plans to spend near $80 million to...
February 26, 2020
The U.S. Attorney in Louisville has been selected to join a working group that is part of a presidential commission on law enforcement. U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman, whose jurisdiction is...
February 26, 2020
The James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits will hold its first bourbon industry conference this week at the University of Kentucky. The Beam Institute collaborated with the Kentucky Distillers...
February 26, 2020
Starbucks customers in Canada will soon be able to down fake meat with their Frappuccinos. The coffee chain said Wednesday that it will soon start selling a sandwich featuring a...
February 26, 2020
Leading Maryland lawmakers seeking a way to help pay for a $4 billion, 10-year education plan came up with what they consider an innovative idea of where to get the...
February 26, 2020
Conservative Grounds coffee shop co-owner Cliff Gephart was getting pretty good at this. He held a customer's iPhone high and horizontal as he took a picture of a man in...
February 26, 2020
Asian sharesfell Wednesday on growing fears the virus' spread may be unstoppable, hurting global growth considerably. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 declined0.8% to finish at 22,426.19, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 dipped2.3%...
February 26, 2020
Japanese electronics maker Panasonic declined to comment on reports Wednesday that it is planning to end its partnership with Tesla to produce solar panels at a factory in New York...
February 26, 2020
A $13.5 billion settlement between victims of California's catastrophic wildfires and the utility blamed for causing them was supposed to bring some peace and hope to people still reeling from...
February 26, 2020
The Maine Public Utilities Commission has approved a pair of pilot projects that would provide $500,000 in incentives toward 120 electric vehicle charging stations across the state. Commission Chairman Philip...
February 26, 2020
Hong Kong's government is proposing a nearly $1,300 cash handout for each resident over 18 years old to help alleviate hardships brought on by the spreading viral outbreak and prolonged...
February 26, 2020
Democrats unleashed a roaring assault against Bernie Sanders and seized on Mike Bloomberg's past with women in the workplace during a contentious debate Tuesday night that tested the strength of...
February 26, 2020
Texas-based Xcel Energy has poured the first 66 foundations for what will be a 240-turbine wind farm in eastern New Mexico. Xcel Energy recently began construction on a $900 million...
February 26, 2020
Mexico's drug war has long played out in dusty northern border cities or the poppy fields of its southern mountains, but now the killings have moved to the conservative industrial...
February 26, 2020
A Montana county reached an agreement with a former oil producer to make public health and safety improvements as part of a Superfund cleanup. Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Chief Executive Bill...
February 26, 2020
Within the Democratic primary is the real contest of 2020: who can convince voters they're most like former president Barack Obama, whom nostalgic alchemy has transformed into the closest thing...
February 26, 2020
Seven Democratic presidential contenders staged their final debate before contests in South Carolina and Super Tuesday deliver more than one-third of the delegates needed to clinch the nomination. A look...
February 26, 2020
A California county that pumps most of the state's oil and has issued more than 1,000 drilling permits in five years violated state environmental laws, an appeals court ruled Tuesday...
February 26, 2020
A radio ad from a New Mexico GOP House candidate suggesting that her Republican oil executive opponent endorses “New Green Deal” policies pushed by liberal Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...
February 26, 2020
Federal authorities raided the Manhattan headquarters of the Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard, a search that came amid claims he trafficked and sexually assaulted dozens of teenage girls and women....
