WASHINGTON (AP) — Economists are bracing for a weak showing in the August employment report, which is scheduled to be released Friday with the private sector forecast to add a net total of only 41,000 jobs, the fewest since January.
That's not enough to keep up with population growth. The jobless rate is expected to increase to 9.6 percent from 9.5 percent, the first rise since April.
The anemic economy is causing companies to conserve cash and hold...
BUXTON, N.C. (AP) — The last ferry left for the mainland and coastal residents hunkered down at home as Hurricane Earl closed in with 105 mph winds Friday on North Carolina's dangerously exposed Outer Banks, the first and perhaps most destructive stop on the storm's projected journey up the Eastern Seaboard.
The hurricane's squalls began to lash the long ribbon of barrier islands. Gusts above 40 mph made signs shake and the heavy rain fall sideways in Buxton, the...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — For the second time in a week, state wildlife officers have killed a mother bear and cubs in Colorado Springs, Colo., that broke into a home.
The Gazette in Colorado Springs reports that the mother bear and two cubs were euthanized Thursday after entering the home. A woman cleaning the kitchen says she was surprised by a cub and then saw the mother bear outside. The woman escaped through a window.
Michael Seraphin of...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — For the second time in a week, state wildlife officers have killed a mother bear and cubs in Colorado Springs, Colo., that broke into a home.
The Gazette in Colorado Springs reports that the mother bear and two cubs were euthanized Thursday after entering the home. A woman cleaning the kitchen says she was surprised by a cub and then saw the mother bear outside. The woman escaped through a window.
Michael Seraphin of...
DALLAS (AP) — Officials say a suburban Dallas man critically wounded in a shooting last month in which two children are charged has died.
The man's wife, 46-year-old Darlene Nevil, was killed in the shooting two weeks ago.
The Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office says 48-year-old Alan Nevil died Thursday night at Baylor University Medical Center.
A 13-year-old boy and his 12-year-old girlfriend are charged with murder and...
Today is Friday, Sept. 3, the 246th day of 2010. There are 119 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Sept. 3, 1939, Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland. A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British liner SS Athenia some 250 miles off the Irish coast, killing more than 100 out of the 1,400 or so people on board.
...DALLAS (AP) — Officials say a suburban Dallas man critically wounded in a shooting last month in which two children are charged has died.
The man's wife, 46-year-old Darlene Nevil, was killed in the shooting two weeks ago.
The Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office says 48-year-old Alan Nevil died Thursday night at Baylor University Medical Center.
A 13-year-old boy and his 12-year-old girlfriend are charged with murder and...
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — A 9-year-old boy ran to get cash from his mother's purse to appease an armed intruder, but when he returned the man was stabbing his parents with a kitchen knife in the bedroom, according to recently released search warrants in the double murder case.
The documents provide details on the May 2009 slayings of Brock and Davina Husted, both 42, and their unborn child, according to a Thursday report in the Ventura County Star.
The...
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — Recently released court documents provide details of the brutal stabbing deaths of a pregnant woman and her husband at their Southern California beach house last year.
The documents, obtained by the Ventura County Star, reveal an armed intruder demanded cash and jewelry when he burst into the Faria Beach home of Brock and Davina Husted in May 2009.
The documents say the couple's 9-year-old son ran to get cash from his mother's...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The board that considers compensation for California crime victims is being advised to reject a claim by the mother of Jaycee Dugard, who authorities say was held captive for nearly two decades by a paroled rapist.
Lynn Margherita, spokeswoman for the Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, said Thursday the board's staff is recommending the claim by Terry Probyn be handled by the courts.
Probyn's claim was not...
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