Work begins to turn SC racist store into racial harmony site
Renovations are starting for an old theater in South Carolina that spent decades as a store that sold racist merchandise and a meeting spot for the Ku Klux Klan …
Month: December 2020
Jobless claims down 19,000, still 4 times pre-pandemic level
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell by 19,000 but remain elevated at 787,000 as a resurgent coronavirus grips the U.S. economy …
Records show Casey Anthony is starting investigation firm
State records show that Casey Anthony has filed documents to start a private investigation firm in South Florida …
Donations coming in to rebuild Missouri mosque that burned
Donations have topped $40,000 to help rebuild a Missouri mosque destroyed by fire earlier this week …
No charges for police in death of ‘boogaloo’ movement martyr
Maryland prosecutors aren’t charging any police officers in the shooting death of a man whose family says he was sleeping in his bed next to his girlfriend when police opened fire …
Religious leaders worldwide, across faiths who died in 2020
The Catholic priest who for decades had been one of the Vatican’s top experts on the Latin language died on Christmas Day at a nursing home in Milwaukee …
Federal checks salvage otherwise dreadful 2020 for US farms
U.S. farmers are expected to end the year with higher profits than last year and the best net farm income in seven years thanks to the government paying nearly 40% of their income …
Minneapolis to release bodycam video in fatal shooting
Police in Minneapolis say they plan to release body camera video Thursday from a traffic stop that ended with a man shot dead, the city’s first police-involved death since George Floyd died while being restrained by…
Census: Early analysis shows falsifying data was rare
The U.S. Census Bureau says less than a half percent of census takers interviewing households for the 2020 head count may have falsified their work, suggesting it was few and far between …
Judge: $28.5M bail package for Epstein ex not a close call
A judge says a $28.5 bail package proposed by lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend only strengthened the reasoning for keeping her locked up until her July trial …
Officer in Breonna Taylor case fights move to fire him
At least one police officer connected to the fatal shooting of a Black woman in Kentucky, Breonna Taylor, is fighting the Louisville police department’s move to terminate his employment …
Man called most prolific serial killer in US history dies
The man authorities say was the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history has died at 80 …