The red-hot job market capped off 2022 on a high note, with employers adding 223,000 jobs in December, the Labor Department reported Friday. The payroll numbers reflect a slowdown from the pace of job creation earlier in the year, but they are slightly above economists’ predictions that businesses had added about 200,000 …
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A Connecticut state lawmaker was killed in a wrong-way crash involving two vehicles late Wednesday night, the state’s governor announced. State Rep. Quentin “Q” Williams was 39. “I am in shock,” House Speaker Matt Ritter said in a statement Thursday. “Q was my dear friend and I am scarred by …
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Mahina Douglas, who lives in the suburbs of Baltimore, says she loves to socialize. But after the holidays, she’s been thinking about cutting back on alcohol. “I just felt like my drinking was getting, I guess a little more than I was comfortable with it being,” Douglas said. She decided …
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Questions abound about a fatal pedestrian crash on Interstate 25 after midnight on New Year’s Day, CBS Colorado’s Olivia Young reports. According to Thornton police, a woman was in the rideshare vehicle with friends and became ill. The driver pulled over and the passengers, who’d chosen to end the ride, …
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The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration on Tuesday announced that it is banning TikTok from all House-managed mobile devices “due to a number of security risks.” House staffers are now barred from downloading TikTok onto House devices and must remove the app from any mobile devices onto …
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Kentucky State Police say they have identified a victim in an unsolved homicide case from more than three decades ago after obtaining a DNA sample from the victim’s son. In a news release Monday, police identified the body recovered along a roadside in rural Owen County as Linda Bennett of …
Read More »The IRS is cautioning U.S. taxpayers not to bank on getting their refunds by any specific date when they file their returns in early 2023. The tax agency recently said some returns may need extra time to review, and thus could take longer to process. The alert comes as millions …
Read More »Salem, Oregon — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Tuesday that she is commuting the sentences of all of the state’s 17 inmates awaiting execution, saying their death sentences will be changed to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown, a Democrat with less than a month remaining in …
Read More »When it comes to natural Christmas trees, Americans should brace for more of the same: higher prices. Escalating production costs and tight supplies of farm-raised trees are the underlying reasons why that evergreen is likely going to cost more this year, according to the National Christmas Tree Association, a trade …
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Brad William Henke, a longtime actor and former NFL player known for roles in “Orange Is the New Black” and “Justified,” has died, his publicist confirmed to CBS News Thursday. He was 56 years old. There was no immediate word on a cause of death. Henke had dozens of film …
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