A restaurant owner helped a man escape a car just before it was hit by a commuter train in Connecticut on Saturday night. Pizzeria owner Tom Costanzo told Hearst Connecticut...
January 5, 2020
A swampy nature preserve in northeastern Indiana is growing by 40 acres (16.18 hectares) thanks to a financial gift from an anonymous donor. The Little River Wetlands Project announced recently...
January 5, 2020
Guy Ritchie's return to the gangster genre is being labeled as racist and out of date, but the triggered reviews suggest the proudly politically correct simply don't understand how art...
January 5, 2020
Republican Lynn Fitch will be sworn in as Mississippi's new attorney general Thursday, becoming the first woman in that job. Fitch is one of only six women ever elected to...
January 5, 2020
Two teenage girls who turned themselves in to Chicago police after seeing their images posted on a crime alert have been charged in connection with an attack on a subway...
January 5, 2020
A Maine dairy farmer who has spoken out about contamination from “forever chemicals” in the state said he has been denied help from a federal assistance program. Fred Stone of...
January 5, 2020
Turkey's president said Sunday that the country was deploying military units to Libya, where Ankara is supporting the embattled U.N.-recognized government in Tripoli. Turkey's parliament authorized the deployment of troops...
January 5, 2020
Leaders of a Vermont hospital that is a critical provider of psychiatric and addiction services in the Green Mountain State said Sunday the facility faces the possibility of sale or...
January 5, 2020
U.S. technology companies that build artificial intelligence software for analyzing satellite imagery will face new restrictions on exporting their products to China and elsewhere. The Commerce Department said new export...
January 5, 2020
An exit poll on Sunday in Croatia's fiercely contested presidential election suggested that a leftist challenger is set to win the race over the incumbent conservative. The exit poll carried...
January 5, 2020
A popular North Carolina ferry route is set to close for three months to allow crews to perform repairs. The StarNews reports the N.C. Department of Transportation will close the...
January 5, 2020
Utah transportation officials are exploring other ways to bring in money as more drivers switch to electric and hybrid vehicles. The Provo Daily Herald reports the Utah Department of Transportation...
January 5, 2020
An Ohio County has said it is set to begin foreclosure proceedings against a mall over unpaid property taxes. The Chapel Hill Mall in Akron owes more than $166,000 in...
January 5, 2020
The death of a prominent Missouri lawyer is being investigated, but few details about his death were released immediately. The Madison County Sheriff's office says Randy Gori was found dead...
January 5, 2020
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Columbia Grain International for exposing workers to grain-handling hazards after a worker was buried by corn and died in a North Dakota...
January 5, 2020
New Hampshire has started requiring training for the care of people with Alzheimer's disease and dementia in some homes and facilities in the state. The state budget included new training...
January 5, 2020
Matt Halprin, the global head of trust and safety for YouTube, has a tough job: He oversees the teams that decide what is allowed and what should be prohibited on...
January 5, 2020
In a state burdened by billions of dollars in wildfire damage, California lawmakers are hoping for an advance loan before the next climate-fueled catastrophe hits. Lawmakers in the Democratic-dominated state...
January 5, 2020
The average British person will pump out more carbon emissions in two weeks than citizens in seven African nations will emit in an entire year, the charity Oxfam said in...
January 5, 2020
A recycling center that employs adults with intellectual disabilities in Alabama should have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to its workers, federal labor officials said. The U.S. Department of...
January 5, 2020
A Utah highway patrol lieutenant and state lawmaker has retired from his law enforcement job after 31 years. Lee Perry told the Logan Herald Journal that he's seen some good...
January 5, 2020
New York lawmakers are set to return to Albany this week for the start of the new legislative session, and a second year of near-total control of state government by...
January 5, 2020
Psychiatrists are so hard to come by in some rural parts of Kansas that out-of-state doctors now commonly treat patients through video conference. Kansas, like the rest of the U.S.,...
January 5, 2020
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts will attempt to lower taxes for homeowners, farmers and military retirees this year while setting aside money to help the state recover from the historic 2019...
January 5, 2020
Rhode Island's new legislative session begins Tuesday. Democratic House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello and Senate President Dominick Ruggerio will gavel in the 2020 session in their respective chambers and welcome lawmakers...
January 5, 2020
What will watching TV be like in the 2020s? The CES gadget show will offer some glimpses, as companies strut out celebrities such as Mandy Moore and show off shorter...
January 5, 2020
Twenty-four National Guard soldiers are leaving New York state as they prepare to deploy to Afghanistan. A farewell ceremony was held Saturday afternoon for the members of the 206th Military...
January 5, 2020
The latest on U.S.-Iran tensions (all times local): 4:45 p.m. Iraq's parliament has voted to expel the U.S. military from the country. Lawmakers voted Sunday in favor of a resolution...
January 5, 2020
An aquarium and an engineering firm in Massachusetts are partnering on a project to better protect whales by monitoring them from space. New England Aquarium of Boston and Draper of...
January 5, 2020
Austria's Foreign Ministry says its IT systems are the target of a “serious cyberattack” and authorities have taken counter measures. The ministry said Sunday that “due to the severity of...
January 5, 2020
Teachers were some of the loudest cynics when Berkley-Campostella Early Childhood Center won a grant that gave an iPad to every student. Principal Doreatha White estimated 80% of her staff...
January 5, 2020
"Development" can be a scary word in the world of environmental conservation — sheets of vinyl siding growing up new condominiums, yards of pavement eating away rural pasture. But Steve...
January 5, 2020
When Tina Riley began “Pass-It-On” parties, she wanted to give back to the community. “Growing up, in my generation, you always learned something from somebody in the neighborhood,” Ms. Riley...
January 5, 2020
More than two years after a wave of sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein ushered in the #MeToo movement, the disgraced movie mogul faces another reckoning: a criminal trial that...
January 5, 2020
At least five people were killed and dozens were injured in a crash early Sunday involving multiple vehicles on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a transportation official said. The fatal crash involving...
January 5, 2020
More than two years after a wave of sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein ushered in the #MeToo movement, the disgraced movie mogul faces another reckoning: a criminal trial that...
January 5, 2020
There is almost no discussion in US politics that gains in clarity and common sense after one of Colin Kaepernick's famed Twitter interventions. Even the ones where he might have...
January 5, 2020
The latest on U.S.-Iran tensions (all times local): 12:15 p.m. Major stock markets in the Middle East are trading down on fears of a conflict between Iran and the U.S....
January 5, 2020
Spain's interim Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has two opportunities to win the endorsement of the Spanish Parliament to form a left-wing coalition government. Sánchez is proposing a coalition government of...
