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An attorney for a man charged with killing four members of the same family told a judge on Monday that he plans to request that a jury from outside the county hear the case, which set a swath of rural Tennessee on edge as the man eluded authorities for a week after the shootings. Austin…
Social Security’s so-called “full retirement age” — the age when people can start collecting all of their earned benefits — is about to hit a new threshold, a change that will affect Americans born in 1960 or later. The full retirement age (FRA) for Social Security is calculated using a worker’s birth year, while their…
{KXLG – Frankfort, SD} As of 12 p.m. (noon) on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, U.S. Highway 212, from five miles east of Redfield to east of Frankfort, has been reopened to all traffic. Motorists should be aware that there is an interim asphalt surface treatment through the work area. A reduced speed limit of 55 miles per…
Joseph Emerson, the former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut down a commercial plane’s engines midflight in 2023 while traveling off duty in the cockpit’s jump seat, was sentenced Monday in federal court to time served and three years of supervised release. Emerson, of Pleasant Hill, California, had pleaded guilty to the single charge…
A growing share of lower-income Americans are struggling to get by financially as their wages fail to keep up with inflation, according to a recent analysis. Roughly 29% of lower-income households are living paycheck to paycheck, up slightly from 2024 and from 27.1% in 2023, data from the Bank of America Institute shows. The financial…
An Indiana prosecutor has charged a homeowner who shot and killed a house cleaner on his front porch earlier this month. Police said the cleaner had mistakenly shown up to the property in Whitestown, about 20 miles outside of Indianapolis, thinking it was a different address. The homeowner, Curt Andersen, faces one count of voluntary…
Washington — A federal magistrate judge on Monday ordered federal prosecutors to turn over all grand jury material to former FBI Director James Comey’s defense team, harshly criticizing the Justice Department for a “disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps” in its handling of the case against the ex-FBI chief. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick allowed…
A Nebraska man is on a mission to tell every small town’s story. Seth Varner, a 25-year-old historian, roams the Midwest for his publishing company, Wandermore, which he started in 2020 after just graduating from high school. He documents landmarks, things to do and places to eat. Then, Varner posts his findings on Wandermore’s Facebook…
Ford Motor is partnering with Amazon to let dealers sell the automaker’s certified used vehicles on the e-commerce platform, providing consumers with a way to shop for a car and arrange financing online. The Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker on Monday said the deal allows customers to browse local dealers’ pre-owned Ford vehicle selections on Amazon Autos,…
The estate of O.J. Simpson has agreed to pay nearly $58 million to the father of Ron Goldman, court documents show, decades after Simpson was acquitted of killing Goldman and Simpson’s ex-wife. Simpson, a former NFL star who died in April 2024 at the age of 76, was acquitted of two counts of murder in…