A spreading virus is keeping Chinese travelers at home, leading to hundreds of cancellations during the peak of Alaska's winter tourism season. About 500 travelers canceled February itineraries with a...
February 20, 2020
The Oregon State Police is investigating three Oregon Department of Transportation employees on theft allegations, the department announced Wednesday. Three employees from the Lawnfield Maintenance Station in Clackamas are being...
February 20, 2020
A new White House report says the U.S. economy is growing faster than expected, even though the annual gains of 3% that President Donald Trump promised to voters have yet...
February 20, 2020
Americans took out nearly $150 billion in loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration to buy homes in 2018. Nearly 83% of those FHA borrowers were first-time home buyers, according...
February 20, 2020
AVirginia man held a suspect who was trying to steal goats from his farm at gunpoint until authorities could arrive to make an arrest, authorities said. Stafford County deputies responded...
February 20, 2020
Protesters gathered Thursday outside Portugal's where lawmakers were due to debate proposals that would allow euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill people. Groups opposed to the procedures waved banners...
February 20, 2020
A global law firm announced Thursday it has hired another prominent former federal official from southwest Ohio. Squire Patton Boggs said Benjamin Glassman will work out of its Cincinnati and...
February 20, 2020
Four people have been arrested in connection with what federal authorities say was an extensive scheme to import large amounts of steroids primarily from Hong Kong for redistribution to customers...
February 20, 2020
Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser al-Khelaifi was charged Thursday by Swiss federal prosecutors in connection with a wider bribery investigation linked to FIFA and World Cup television rights. The office of...
February 20, 2020
Shares of the company that owns Victoria's Secret are tumbling on a report that lingerie retailer is being sold for about $1.1 billion. The selling price would signify a marked...
February 20, 2020
The Bosnian Serb leader on Thursday renewed calls for Bosnia's dissolution and pledges to block decision-making in the country's institutions, in a move slammed by Western envoys as a challenge...
February 20, 2020
Southeast Asia's top diplomats praised China's handling of the virus outbreak and pledged Thursday to help fight the disease that emerged in a central Chinese city and spread in the...
February 20, 2020
Morgan Stanley is buying online brokerage E(asterisk)Trade for about $13 billion. In the all-stock deal announced Thursday, E(asterisk)Trade shareholders will receive 1.0432 Morgan Stanley shares for each share they own....
February 20, 2020
Police have dismantled what they say is the Europe Union's first clandestine underground cigarette factory — four meters (13 feet) under a horse stable in southern Spain. Statements Thursday from...
February 20, 2020
Domino's Pizza delivered better-than-expected results in the fourth quarter despite increasing competition from food delivery companies like DoorDash. The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company — which has 17,000 stores worldwide —...
February 20, 2020
Britain's new 20-pound (about $29) note went into circulation Thursday — one that replaces the image of a pioneering economist with a battered warship being towed away for scrap. The...
February 20, 2020
Miami-Dade commissioners unanimously approved renaming the county's “Dixie” highways after Harriet Tubman, replacing a name branded as celebrating a racist legacy with the name of a legendary liberator of Americans...
February 20, 2020
An office building in downtown Miami completed a $4 million, year-long renovation in October 2019. Now, its property owner is reaping the reward. MetLife, the New York-based life insurance company,...
February 20, 2020
The co-founder of the fashion label Tory Burch will soon call Miami home. J. Christopher Burch, the co-founder of Tory Burch LLC and the founder and CEO of Burch Creative...
February 20, 2020
People walk by the original Miami, Florida, every day and don't even know it. Or they think the downtown corner where Miami's first residents lived is a ruptured sewage line...
February 20, 2020
Visitors driving to South Beach from the MacArthur Causeway won't be greeted by vacant, dusty lots along Alton Road for much longer. Construction will begin soon on a 3-acre public...
February 20, 2020
Developers have more incentive to build closer to transit routes after Miami-Dade commissioners approved looser zoning rules for some bus and rail corridors outside city limits. Wednesday's vote established the...
February 20, 2020
Developers have more incentive to build closer to transit routes after Miami-Dade commissioners approved looser zoning rules for some bus and rail corridors outside city limits. Wednesday's vote established the...
February 20, 2020
State authorities have approved a new cybersecurity program at George Mason University. The university said its Department of Cyber Security Engineering will be the first of its kind in the...
February 20, 2020
Google is attempting to make sure people know exactly what they're signing up for when they use its online services — though that will still mean reading a lengthy document....
February 20, 2020
Retail giant Amazon is planning to open a new warehouse and delivery center in Virginia. Gov. Ralph Northam announced Wednesday that Amazon is planning a new facility in Prince George...
February 20, 2020
Federal officials got an earful of complaints Wednesday night from scores of New Hampshire communities over a plan to further reduce nitrogen in one of the largest estuaries in the...
February 20, 2020
CEOs were asked: The coronavirus continues to add new cases worldwide. How has your business been affected by the epidemic? == For our news stations and their viewers, the coverage...
February 20, 2020
Visitors driving to South Beach from the MacArthur Causeway won't be greeted by vacant, dusty lots along Alton Road for much longer. Construction will begin soon on a 3-acre public...
February 20, 2020
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is pledging to speed up unemployment insurance claims by improving staffing at career centers around the state. Beshear announced Wednesday that current staff have been retrained...
February 20, 2020
Everything is set for the EU's bruising trillion-euro summit. Leaders from the European Union's 27 countries are flying in to Brussels on Thursday to discuss the bloc's spending plan for...
February 20, 2020
Thailand's government is scrambling to cope with new travel restrictions after Israel banned the citizens of Thailand and three other Asian countries and territories from entering over concerns about a...
February 20, 2020
The world's largest shipping company, Denmark's A.P. Moller-Maersk, said Thursday it expects the outbreak of the new coronavirus in China to hurt its 2020 earnings. The company said in its...
February 20, 2020
Epidemic outbreaks – just like social protests – don't erupt and then disappear; they persist and lurk around, waiting to explode when it's least expected. We should accept this, but...
February 20, 2020
A former salesman at a Florida Porsche dealership has been sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for scamming more than 30 customers out of about $3 million by creating...
February 20, 2020
A delegation from the International Monetary Fund was in Lebanon on Thursday to assess what is needed to save the Mideast country's crumbling economy. The IMF team first held talks...
February 20, 2020
TheSouth Carolina Supreme Court ruled that residents have the legal right to challenge the proposed construction of a new cruise ship terminal in Charleston. The ruling Wednesday sends the case...
February 20, 2020
The Trial of Roger Stone has reached its finale. After closely examining Stone's case, one thing becomes clear: it should never have gotten this far. Stone, long-time political operative and...
February 20, 2020
Israel's defense minister said Thursday that the country would allow Palestinian agricultural exports, a move aimed at defusing what has been an escalating trade crisis that had heightened Israeli-Palestinian tensions....
February 20, 2020
Did an artificial-intelligence system beat human doctors inwarning the world of a severe coronavirus outbreak in China? In a narrow sense, yes. But what the humans lacked in sheer speed,...
