NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks advanced, pushing the Standard and Poor’s 500 to another five-year high, after strong reports on housing starts and unemployment claims made investors more optimistic about the U.S. economy.
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 8,000 New York City school bus drivers and aides went on strike over job protection Wednesday morning, leaving some 152,000 students, many disabled, trying to find other ways to get to school.
Regulators in Oregon and California have quietly directed some health insurance companies to stop denying coverage for transgender patients because of their gender identity.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Police in Jersey City say they’ve been trying to contact Tennessee Titans wide receiver and former Rutgers star Kenny Britt to question him about an incident Sunday in which he allegedly drove a friend to the hospital after the man had been stabbed at a party. Capt. Edgar Martinez said [...]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York lawmakers agreed to pass the toughest gun control law in the nation and the first since the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, calling for a stricter assault weapons ban and provisions to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill who make threats. “This is a scourge on [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks opened lower on Wall Street as concerns about the government’s finances intensified, offsetting a report that retail sales rose in December. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 32 points to 13,475 as of 10:26 a.m. EST. The Standard and Poor’s 500 dropped five points to 1,466, the Nasdaq Composite index [...]
Health officials say flu is more widespread across the nation, but the number of hard-hit states has declined. Flu season started early this winter, and includes a strain that tends to make people sicker. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday said flu was widespread in 47 states last week, up from 41 [...]
A judge has ordered the Colorado theater shooting suspect to stand trial, but his attorneys say they’re not ready to enter a plea. District Judge William Sylvester ruled Thursday night that prosecutors had presented sufficient evidence to proceed with charges alleging James Holmes killed 12 people and injured 70 others at a suburban Denver movie [...]
Stocks opened slightly lower on Wall Street Friday, pushing the Standard & Poor’s 500 back from a five-year high. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 30 points to 13,442 after the first half-hour of trading. The S&P 500 fell three points to 1,468 and the Nasdaq composite index dropped three points to 3,119. Wells Fargo, [...]
BOSTON (AP) — Boston declared a public health emergency Wednesday as flu season struck in earnest and the state reported 18 flu-related deaths so far. The city is working with health care centers to offer free flu vaccines and hopes to set up places where people can get vaccinated. The city said there have been [...]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Businesses and individuals who claim BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost them money have been paid more than $1 billion through the company’s class-action settlement with a team of private plaintiffs’ attorneys, court-supervised claims administrator Patrick Juneau said. The $1 billion that Juneau’s team has paid is for [...]
HENRIETTA, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York woman charged in connection with two guns used in a former neighbor’s deadly Christmas Eve ambush of firefighters is due before a judge Tuesday. Dawn Nguyen, 24, of the Rochester suburb of Greece will plead not guilty in Henrietta Town Court to a state charge of filing [...]
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband launched a political action committee aimed at curbing gun violence on Tuesday as her Arizona hometown paused to mark the second anniversary of a deadly shooting rampage that left her with severe injuries. Tucson residents rang bells at 10:11 a.m. — the moment a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than two months after Superstorm Sandy struck, the House on Friday overwhelmingly approved $9.7 billion to pay flood insurance claims for the many home and business owners flooded out by the storm. The 354-67 vote came days after Northeast Republicans erupted over House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to delay a vote [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added 155,000 jobs in December, a steady gain that shows hiring held up during the tense negotiations to resolve the fiscal cliff. The solid job growth wasn’t enough to reduce the unemployment rate, which remained 7.8 percent last month, the Labor Department said Friday. The rate for November was revised [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s official. A tally of the Electoral College vote affirms President Barack Obama’s re-election. Vice President Joe Biden presided over a Joint Session of Congress Friday as four members of the House and Senate took turns announcing the votes that had been tallied in state capitals last month. Their count showed Obama [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just two weeks before the economy-threatening “fiscal cliff” is due to kick in, both President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are making significant concessions to each other, backing off what had once been ironclad positions on how to avoid the huge automatic spending cuts and tax increases. The moves signal [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer. Five states were to announce Monday that they will add at least 300 hours of learning time to the calendar in some schools starting in 2013. Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New [...]
(AP) — The stock market edged lower Monday morning, pulled down by old worries about the debt crisis in Europe and a political standoff over taxes and spending in the U.S. In early trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 66 points at 12,945. The Standard & Poor’s 500 was down 6 to 1,403. [...]
CRISFIELD, Md. (AP) — On Maryland’s jagged coastline, hurricane-riled waves destroyed an iconic pier and floodwaters forced caskets from graves in a town famed for crabbing. In the mountainous western edges, 2 feet of snow snapped power lines, downed trees and left tractor-trailers jackknifed along an interstate. The much-feared meet-up between Hurricane Sandy and a [...]
