69°F
weather icon Windy
Filters Reset
1 - 10 of about 12 Results
Content Type
Categories
Tags
Year
Month
older archives
Regulators implicated in Flint water scandal take plea deals

Two Michigan environmental regulators implicated in the Flint water scandal pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor Wednesday in exchange for more serious charges being dropped, bringing to six the number of officials who have agreed to such deals.

Dow up 1,000 in biggest point gain ever; US stocks up 5 percent

U.S. stocks surged Wednesday, recovering all their losses from a Christmas Eve plunge and placing the market on track for its best day in nine months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up than 1,000 points in best day for Wall Street in 10 years.

 
4 killed when car rear-ends oil tanker on New Jersey highway

New Jersey state police say a crash involving a car and a tanker truck on the Garden State Parkway has left four people dead. The accident was reported around 2:50 a.m. Wednesday in the southbound lanes near mile marker 81.5 in Toms River.

Boxing Day has nothing to do with knockouts or big box stores

In Britain and other countries like Australia and Canada, the day after Christmas is a secular national holiday known as Boxing Day. Here’s a brief look at some theories about how the holiday got its name and how people celebrate it.

North Korea ordered to pay parents of Otto Warmbier $500M

A federal judge ordered North Korea to pay more than $500 million in a wrongful death suit filed by the parents of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died shortly after being released from that country.