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Laura Trickle is in quite a pickle! The Missouri mom, who has a breastfeeding seven-month old baby boy, Axel Graham, is in hot water with the…
A Georgia woman is searching for answers after her 24 year-old son was found dead in Death Valley, California with several of his internal organs…
DANVERS, Mass. (AP) — A 24-year-old Danvers High School teacher has been found dead in the woods behind the school and a 14-year-old student is facing a murder charge. Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett on Wednesday identified the victim as Colleen Ritzer of Andover. He says police started investigating after they were told she had […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Here’s more fallout from the government’s partial shutdown: Early tax filers will have to wait an extra week or two to get tax refunds next year. The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday it will delay the start of next year’s filing season by up to two weeks to give programmers time to […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Major Owens, a New York City Democrat who served 12 terms in the U.S. House and was credited with helping to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, has died at age 77. Owens died Monday night at NYU Langone Medical Center of renal failure and heart failure, his son […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Some civil rights movement history went up for sale Thursday, as papers from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., including speech outlines and letters, brought in more than $130,000 at auction. They were sold by 88-year-old Maude Ballou, who worked as King’s secretary from 1955 to 1960, through the New York […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are attending parent-teacher conferences for their daughters. Obama and the first lady left the White House by motorcade on Tuesday morning for the drive to the private Sidwell Friends School in northwest Washington. Fifteen-year-old Malia and 12-year-old Sasha are students at the exclusive school.
Davion Only is a 15-year-old orphan who desperately wants something many people take for granted: A family. “I’ll take anyone,” Davion said as he stood in the pulpit of St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida on a recent Sunday morning. “Old or young, dad or mom, black, white, purple. I don’t care. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A dim view of the U.S. job market emerged Tuesday with a report that employers cut back on hiring in September just before a partial government shutdown began. Just 148,000 jobs were added last month, a steep drop from August’s gain, though they were enough to lower unemployment to 7.2 percent from […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service paid out more than $110 billion in tax credits over the past decade to people who didn’t qualify for them, according to a Treasury report released Tuesday. The Earned Income Tax Credits were intended for poor working families. In his report, IRS inspector general J. Russell George said […]
DETROIT (AP) — Thousands of Detroit streetlights are dark. Many more residents have fled. Donors are replacing ambulances that limped around for 200,000 miles. Millions in debt payments have been skipped. Is there really any doubt the city is broke? A judge starts exploring that question Wednesday in an unusual trial to determine whether Detroit […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Public schools would be barred from employing teachers and other workers convicted of sexual offenses against children or other violent crimes under a bill the House was expected to approve Tuesday. The measure would require school systems to check state and federal criminal records for employees with unsupervised access to elementary and […]
