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Jan 17 2023
News
Feds won't seek death penalty for El Paso Walmart shooter
Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at a West Texas Walmart in 2019. The U.S. Department of Justice disclosed the decision not to pursue capital punishment against Patrick Crusius in a one-sentence notice filed with the federal court in El Paso on Tuesday. Crusius, now 24, is accused of targeting
San Diego Union-Tribune
Feb 03 2023
News
160,138,000: Record Number of Employed in January
The first employment report of 2023 shows robust strength in the labor market, as the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates.
The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics says a whopping 517,000 non-farm jobs were created in January, way above estimates of 183,000.
"Job growth was widespread, led by gains in leisure and hospitality (+128,000), professional and
CNSNews.com
Jan 17 2023
News
City Issues UES Cancer Center Citation After Smoke Concerns
UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — After months of neighborhood complaints to the city and a local city Council member, the city has issued a citation to a building whose chimney has been pouring smoke into the apartments of its neighbors, according to the Department of Environmental Protection. On Friday — a day after Patch first wrote about the heralded cancer-center's smoke cloud — a DEP inspection
Patch.com
Jan 18 2023
News
S.F. district attorney issues arrest warrant for gallery owner accused of hosing homeless woman
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Wednesday she has issued an arrest warrant for Collier Gwin, the gallery owner who was captured on video spraying a homeless woman with a garden hose after he said she refused to move from a sidewalk he was cleaning. Gwin will be charged with misdemeanor battery “for the alleged intentional and unlawful spraying of water on and around a woman
San Francisco Chronicle
Jan 18 2023
News
New York City now providing free abortion pills
New York City residents can now get abortion pills free of charge. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on Wednesday was set to begin dispensing the pills, which work as an alternative to surgical abortions, at a health clinic in the Bronx. Additional clinics in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens will also provide free abortion drugs by year-end, according to New York City Mayor Eric Adams
CBS News (Online)
Nov 25 2022
Analysis
The hidden cost of Black Friday
The Black Friday chaos we used to see in storefronts and shopping malls has moved to logistics centers and warehouses all over the world:
Hundreds of thousands of employees work long hours — often in tough conditions — to get through the holiday rush.
The big picture: E-commerce's growing share of the retail market, continued COVID precautions and an extended holiday shopping
Axios
Jan 18 2023
News
Civil rights investigation opened after death of Tennessee man 3 days after police stop
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Federal investigators said Wednesday a civil rights investigation has been opened into the death of a 29-year-old man who died three days after being stopped by Memphis police. The United States Attorney’s Office, along with the FBI Memphis Field Office and the Justice Department's civil rights division, announced the investigation into the officers involved in the traffic
USA TODAY
Jan 12 2023
News
Inflation Slowed to 6.5% in December
U.S. inflation slowed to 6.5% in December, marking the sixth straight monthly deceleration since a mid-2022 peak.
The department’s consumer-price index, a closely watched measure of inflation, rose 7.1% in November from a year earlier, it said last month. That marked the fifth straight month of a decline in the annual inflation rate from a 9.1% peak in June. Despite the recent easing of
Wall Street Journal (News)
Jan 18 2023
News
Microsoft trims Bay Area jobs as tech titan launches huge layoffs
MOUNTAIN VIEW — Microsoft has launched a wrenching round of job cuts that include the loss of dozens of Silicon Valley positions in the early stages of the tech titan’s huge staffing reductions, a state filing shows. The tech company has decided to eliminate 46 jobs in Mountain View, where Microsoft has a big Silicon Valley campus, according to a WARN letter sent to the state Employment
San Jose Mercury News
Jan 18 2023
News
Newborn Delivered After Lakeville Shooting Dies Days Later
The child died days after his mother, who was shot and killed in the parking lot of an Amazon warehouse on Jan. 8. Kyla O’Neal Fletcher, age 31, was 9 months pregnant at the time of her death. "We’re proud of the efforts of our first responders and medical professionals who worked so diligently to give this baby a chance at life," Lakeville police commander William Gerl told Patch in an email
Patch.com