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Digging yourself out of credit card debt
GREENVILLE, NC (WNCT) – The holidays may have come to an end, but for many – the debt acquired hasn’t. At least 37% of Americans obtained new credit card debt this holiday season, and according to...
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Judge agrees to delay Camille Cosby’s deposition in lawsuit
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) – A federal judge has agreed to postpone the deposition of Bill Cosby’s wife in a Massachusetts lawsuit that accuses the comedian of defaming several women. Camille Cosby had...
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Chicago’s law department under review after police scandal
CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was on the defensive again Tuesday, dealing with the fallout from a judge’s opinion accusing a top city lawyer of hiding evidence in another case involving a...
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North Korea says it conducted successful hydrogen bomb test
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Wednesday it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test, a defiant and surprising move that, if confirmed, would put Pyongyang a big step closer toward improving its...
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AL chief justice: State’s same-sex marriage ban still in effect
MONTGOMERY, AL (WKRG) – In a four page administrative order, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore said Wednesday that, “probate judges have a ministrial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary to...
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VP Biden backs sentiment for tighter gun control
WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – The White House kicked off its full-court press on Wednesday to whip up support for President Barack Obama’s new batch of executive actions to regulate guns. The president...
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Macy’s to cut up to 4,800 jobs after weak holiday sales
NEW YORK (AP) – Macy’s is cutting up to 4,800 jobs after disappointing holiday sales. The Cincinnati-based department store chain says sales fell 5.2 percent in November and December at existing...
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O’Malley misses deadline for Ohio primary
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Democrat Martin O’Malley has failed to qualify as a write-in candidate for Ohio’s presidential primary after he missed a deadline to file the paperwork, a spokesman for the...
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Congress sends Obamacare repeal to President
WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – Republicans in Congress passed a bill they know President Obama will not approve. For the first time, they are sending a bill both the Senate and House approved that...
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Washington governor takes action on guns after Obama move
BURIEN, Wash. (AP) – Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at curbing gun violence by improving data-sharing among government agencies and starting a new public health...
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Oregon tribe: Armed group ‘desecrating’ their land
BURNS, Ore. (AP) – The leader of an American Indian tribe that regards an Oregon nature preserve as sacred issued a rebuke Wednesday to the armed men who are occupying the property, saying they are not...
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Hawaii’s last sugar plantation to stop growing sugar
HONOLULU (AP) – Hawaii’s last sugar plantation is getting out of the sugar-growing business, signaling the end of an industry that once powered the local economy and lured thousands of immigrants to...
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Los Angeles County prosecutors reject Cosby sex charges
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Los Angeles County prosecutors have declined to charge Bill Cosby with sexually abusing two teenagers in 1965 and 2008, citing time limits and a lack of evidence. Wednesday’s...
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Suspect in standoff near Tucson police substation in custody
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) – A man who threatened to detonate his recreational vehicle outside a Tucson police substation was arrested after a nearly 10-hour standoff Wednesday in which he showed officers a...
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Chipotle subpoenaed as part of a federal criminal investigation
NEW YORK (AP) – Chipotle said it has been subpoenaed as part of a federal criminal investigation and that sales plummeted 30 percent in December after a series of food scares at its restaurants. The...
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Chinese stocks plunge again, trading halted for Thursday
HONG KONG (AP) – Chinese stocks nosedived on Thursday, triggering the second daylong trading halt of the week and sending other Asian markets sharply lower as investor jitters rippled across the...
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NY salt miners rescued after frigid night in stuck elevator
LANSING, N.Y. (AP) – Seventeen miners spent a frigid night in a broken-down elevator in America’s deepest salt mine, huddling with heat packs and blankets before being rescued early Thursday, a mishap...
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Man in fake explosives vest killed amid high Paris tension
PARIS (AP) – Police shot and killed a man wearing a fake explosive vest who threatened them with a butcher knife at a Paris police station Thursday, a year almost to the minute after two Islamic...
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Sandra Bland’s mother: Trooper perjury charge ‘not justice’
CHICAGO (AP) – The mother of a black woman found dead in a Texas jail cell after a traffic stop in July expressed outrage Thursday that the white state trooper who pulled her over was only charged with...
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FDA: Pizza boxes contain chemical that can damage your health
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Ordering pizza could be damaging to your health, but not for the reasons you may think. The Food and Drug Administration is now banning a common chemical found in many pizza boxes,...
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