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WASHINGTON (AP) – Business economists are more pessimistic about their firms’ future sales and profits than they were last fall, and more predict slower economic growth, a survey found. At the same time, a majority of economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics said their firms plan to raise wages in the January-March […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Florida State University said Monday it’s settling a lawsuit with a former student who said the school failed to respond when she accused former star quarterback Jameis Winston of rape. FSU will pay Erica Kinsman $250,000 and her attorneys $700,000, university President John Thrasher said in a press release. He said […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – House lawmakers have rescheduled a Tuesday hearing planned to question former pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli, reviled for hiking the price of a lifesaving drug, due to the blizzard over the weekend. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will now meet Thursday, Feb. 9, to examine exorbitant drug price increases by […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court ruled Monday that people serving life terms for murders they committed as teenagers must have a chance to seek their freedom, a decision that could affect more than 1,000 inmates. The justices voted 6-3 to extend a ruling from 2012 that struck down automatic life terms with no chance […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – A Florida man was arrested after authorities say he drove off during a traffic stop with a trooper hanging from his car. Media outlets report Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman Kim Montes says 25-year-old Marcus Ryan Dallas was stopped Friday in Orange County for driving without his headlights on. Montes says Dallas […]

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – A total of 14 cadets have been dismissed, suspended or are receiving on-campus punishments at The Citadel after several of them appeared in photos with pillowcases on their heads similar to Ku Klux Klan garb, the military college’s president announced Monday. The photos of seven freshmen cadets dressed in white pants […]

NEW YORK (AP) – A gruesome highway accident followed by months of pain and rehab. That’s no laughing matter. Not unless you’re comedian Tracy Morgan, who’s mining this ordeal for laughs with his “Picking Up the Pieces” stand-up tour. After its current warm-up phase, the tour officially launches Feb. 5 at the Horseshoe Casino in […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – In a win for the Obama administration and environmental groups, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld a 5-year-old federal program that pays large electric customers to save energy during times of peak demand. The justices ruled 6-2 that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had the authority to issue regulations aimed at conserving […]

What You’ll Need: 2 tablespoons ground allspice 1 tablespoon ground ginger 1 tablespoon dried thyme 1 tablespoon garlic powder 1 tablespoon onion powder 2 teaspoons salt 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper 24 extra large raw shrimp, peeled, deveined, with tails left on Skewers (optional) Juice of 1 fresh lime What To Do: […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Airlines canceled around 1,600 flights Monday, and another 1,200 experienced delays, in the aftermath of a massive weekend blizzard that slammed into the eastern U.S., wreaking havoc on travel in the nation’s busiest cities. Even as the airlines resumed operations, the remnants of the storm posed problems. For instance, Delta said […]