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By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks on Wall Street closed higher Thursday, building on their winning week, as investors sifted through a deluge of news about the economy, interest rates and corporate profits. The S&P 500 rose 1% after shaking off an early stumble, returning to its highest level in six
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By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks ended higher on Wall Street Thursday, building on their winning week. The gains came amid a deluge of news about the economy, interest rates and corporate profits. The S&P 500 rose 1% after shaking off an early stumble, returning to its highest level in six
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Tesla, Nucor rise; AT&T, United Airlines fall
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A shuttle bus at Los Angeles International Airport crashed Thursday and at least two people were seriously injured, authorities said. The crash happened just before 12:30 p.m. near an administrative building as the bus was traveling from the taxi and ride-hailing services parking lot on its way back to the main
Continue Reading MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Four one-time Alabama educators have been sentenced to federal prison in a scheme to fraudulently enroll students from private schools in online public schools. Trey Holladay, a former superintendent with the Athens city school system, was sentenced to the maximum of five years and ordered to pay $2.9 million in restitution
Continue Reading By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge sentenced former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, calling Lane’s role in the restraint that killed Floyd “a very serious offense in which a life was lost” but handing down
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story DALY CITY, California (KPIX) — Police recovered nearly $2,000 in stolen merchandise and arrested four juvenile suspects Wednesday in connection with grab-and-run thefts from a Daly City sporting goods store, authorities said. The suspects, all wearing ski masks, allegedly stole merchandise from Dick’s Sporting Goods
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — A first-of-its-kind study in California is focusing on the scope of sex trafficking, specifically in Sacramento. Researchers say they found over 13,000 sex trafficking victims in the county between 2015 and 2020 –the majority of them were women around the age
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By Christopher Baker Click here for updates on this story CARMICHAEL, California (KOVR) — A dog owner is demanding answers after a large, unleashed dog killed her miniature pinscher mix at Ancil Hoffman Park. “I would never want any other families or children to ever see something like that,” said Tammy Chau, the owner of
Continue ReadingBy John Dias Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — A teenage surfer is recovering after being bitten by a shark off Fire Island. The incident followed a series of attacks this month on Long Island beaches. CBS2’s John Dias spoke with that teen’s father on Thursday. Like most living on
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Between 2020 and 2022, stocks shot toward the moon. This year, they’ve been jettisoned back to Earth. The S&P 500 is down about 18% year-to-date, inflation rates are at 40-year highs, geopolitical chaos abounds and a recession is looming. The easy-money environment that many investors grew accustomed to over the
Continue ReadingBy Sean Streicher Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — Artist Ernest Shaw is well aware of the historical significance of Lexington Market. The Baltimore muralist grew up not far from the landmark establishment. As the more than 200-year-old market prepares to move to a new location next door, he’s been
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — About 30,000 workers at Mexico’s largest fixed-line telephone and internet company have gone on strike, but the company pledges to continue providing service. Teléfonos de Mexico is better known as Telmex, and was once a state-owned company that controlled basically all phone service in Mexico. But since its privatization in the
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand A January 6, 2021, US Capitol rioter who said she had looked for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to kill her that day was sentenced to 60 days behind bars Thursday. “We broke into the Capitol, we got inside, we did our part,” Dawn Bancroft said in a selfie video she took after
Continue Reading By AJA HANNAH and LEE CHILCOTE of The Land for The Chronicle of Philanthropy The Land for The Chronicle of Philanthropy CLEVELAND (AP) — Hakizimana Muvunye, a refugee from Congo who lives in Cleveland, is a man doing his best. He’s the owner of Asante Landscaping but has only five clients so he also drives
Continue Reading By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The meeting place? A secret. Agenda? Not public. Name tags? Take them off in public. Even one of the main social events — trivia night — would be at an undisclosed location. This was no meeting of spies or undercover law enforcement agents. Instead, these were
Continue Reading By CLAUDIA TORRENS and MORGAN LEE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two Republican border-state governors who are investing billions of dollars in immigration enforcement and spending hours at the podium blasting Biden administration policies have found indirect support for their arguments from two unlikely sources: Democratic Mayors Muriel Bowser, of Washington, and Eric Adams,
Continue Reading MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook is rolling out an update that enables its 2 billion daily users to more easily view their friends’ posts in chronological order. The new feature is the company’s latest attempt to keep people coming back to its social network amid intensifying competition with its trendier rival TikTok. The changes
Continue Reading MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook is rolling out an update that enables its 2 billion daily users to more easily view their friends’ posts in chronological order. The new feature is the company’s latest attempt to keep people coming back to its social network amid intensifying competition with its trendier rival TikTok. The changes
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