General Motors will build a new electric battery cell factory in Ohio next to the site of a former assembly plant it shut down last year. The automaker selected a...
January 16, 2020
Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp will deliver his second annual State of the State address Thursday amid questions about whether he can cut income taxes and deliver a campaign promise...
January 16, 2020
The state of Maine is allowing nine people to participate in the fishing industry that harvests baby eels, which are among the most valuable natural resources in the state. Baby...
January 16, 2020
Karen DePaepe had been waiting all day for a call back from Pete Buttigieg. It was March 2012, and the 30-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, had just decided to...
January 16, 2020
One day after signing a new trade deal with China, President Donald Trump is expected to get more good news on his trade agenda as the Senate considers a new...
January 16, 2020
The “Friends” reunion will be there for you. Maybe. “There's interest all the way around” in bringing the stars of the hit sitcom together again, said HBO Max chief content...
January 16, 2020
A former criminal justice professor at New Mexico State University says he lost his job in retaliation for reporting misconduct at his department. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports Francisco Alatorre...
January 16, 2020
The price tag of the new Salt Lake City International Airport has increased to $4.1 billion, officials said. The Airport Advisory Board has received an update of a new master...
January 16, 2020
Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam says the ''one country, two systems'' framework under which the city enjoys freedoms unknown in China could continue after 2047 deadline if loyalty to Beijing...
January 16, 2020
HBO Max's high-end subscription fee won't be an obstacle to the streaming service's launch, said Kevin Reilly, its chief content officer. “People do not shop for their entertainment experiences with...
January 16, 2020
A close associate of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer says he delivered an ultimatum in May to the incoming president of Ukraine that no senior U.S. officials would attend his...
January 16, 2020
One of the Japanese lawyers for former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn has stepped down from that job after Ghosn fled the country. Junichiro Hironaka had been representing Ghosn in his...
January 16, 2020
The chairman of the board that regulates legal marijuana in Alaska is being replaced, Gov. Mike Dunleavy's office announced Wednesday. Dunleavy spokesman Jeff Turner said by email that Casey Dschaak...
January 16, 2020
A former firefighter filed a complaint with the Montana Human Rights Network saying she was a victim of discrimination and was wrongfully terminated. The Dec. 30 complaint by Presley Pritchard...
January 16, 2020
ResMed, a San Diego-based company that sells sleep apnea machines, will pay $37.5 million to settle allegations that it provided kickbacks to obtain customer referrals, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. The...
January 16, 2020
For nearly a year, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders pushed strongly progressive ideas into the Democratic primary spotlight, feeding off each other to build support for proposals long dismissed as...
January 16, 2020
The weekly fishing report as compiled for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for Jan. 15 and also available on the internet at https://tpwd.texas.gov/fishboat/fish/recreational/fishreport.phtml: CENTRAL AUSTIN: FAIR. Water Clear; 62-65...
January 16, 2020
An unlicensed food delivery service in the Sacramento area has been fined more than $100,000 after several customers were sickened. The owner of Anna's Kitchen “repeatedly delivered hundreds of meals...
January 16, 2020
California's governor has restarted a project to build a giant, underground tunnel that would pump billions of gallons of water from the San Joaquin Delta to the southern part of...
January 16, 2020
University of Illinois administrators are recommending a hike in tuition costs for in-state freshmen for the first time in six years, officials announced Wednesday. Under the recommendation, freshmen entering the...
January 16, 2020
The U.S. Department of Agriculture designated eight counties in New Hampshire as primary natural disaster areas. The designation is in response to the fluctuating temperatures in all but two of...
January 16, 2020
Brazilian officials inaugurated the country's new Antarctica scientific base on King George Island Wednesday, nearly eight years after a deadly fire destroyed most of the previous compound. Speaking under a...
January 16, 2020
A San Diego woman is suing American Airlines, saying that a former employee stalked her by sending more than 100 unwanted texts, some of them sexually suggestive. In her Jan....
January 16, 2020
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Wednesday called for a new program to improve the state's roads and bridges, urged state lawmakers to approve a bipartisan Medicaid expansion plan and warned...
January 16, 2020
The GOP leader in the Oregon Senate said Wednesday there could be another walkout by Republicans over legislation aimed at stemming global warming. "I'm still having conversations, but nothing is...
January 16, 2020
A Kansas associate professor concealed work he was doing for China while employed at the University of Kansas and tried to recruit other researchers and students for the Chinese government,...
January 16, 2020
The magnitude of the moment wasn't lost on Kendall Coyne Schofield — wearing her No. 26 Team USA jersey — as she dug her skates into the ice waiting for...
January 16, 2020
A former Las Vegas certified public accountant has become the second man to plead guilty in a bribery scheme involving a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation contract at Hoover Dam and...
January 16, 2020
Some aviation experts said Wednesday that they were puzzled after the crew of a commercial airliner decided to dump fuel at low altitude during an emergency landing, causing a vapor...
January 16, 2020
The McClatchy Co. announced it has secured a month-long standstill agreement with the federal government on a pension payment due Wednesday, giving the parent of the Miami Herald and 28...
January 16, 2020
The Massachusetts State Police union agreed to adopt GPS technology that tracks police cruisers in exchange for modest pay raises in the latest contract agreement with the state, according to...
January 15, 2020
A businessman was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to bribe a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs official in Colorado, court...
January 15, 2020
A study commissioned by Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy's administration recommends running ferries as day boats where possible and providing long-term contracts to private companies to help fill service gaps. The...
January 15, 2020
Florida lawmakers are transmitting a news bulletin: The telegraph era is over. Before there was instant messaging, emails and even corded telephones, there was the reliable telegraph to instantaneously transmit...
January 15, 2020
A former sports book manager at two Lake Tahoe casinos has been sentenced to four years in prison in connection with a $1 million betting scheme. The (Gardnerville) Record-Courier reports...
January 15, 2020
Officials from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan say they have reached a preliminary agreement aimed at clearing the way for the filling and operation of a $5 billion dam project on...
January 15, 2020
As if picking a jury for Harvey Weinstein's rape trial wasn't complicated enough, some potential jurors have been posting on social media about their involvement in the case, violating court...
January 15, 2020
A man who fatally shot another man at a company Christmas party won't face criminal charges because he acted in self-defense, authorities in South Carolina said Wednesday. Lexington police told...
January 15, 2020
A former staff assistant has filed a federal lawsuit against the Clatsop County Sheriff's Office and her former supervisor alleging sex discrimination and retaliation. Kimberly Losada resigned from her job...
January 15, 2020
Copper-nickel mining would be permanently banned upstream from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota under a bill U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum introduced on Wednesday. The Minnesota Democrat...
