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  • Camp Lejeune water contamination tied to a range of cancers, CDC study says

    January 31, 2024 - 10:50 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Military personnel stationed at Camp Lejeune from 1975 to 1985 had at least a 20% higher risk for a number of cancers than those stationed elsewhere, federal health officials said Wednesday in a long-awaited study about the North Carolina base's contaminated drinking water.

  • For 2024, some simple lifestyle changes can improve your little piece of the planet

    January 10, 2024 - 5:32 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — The fight against climate change requires the mass cooperation of industries, companies, governments and communities, but individuals have a role to play, too.

  • 5 questions that can help guide your holiday tipping

    December 15, 2023 - 7:14 AM

    Service workers help make our lives easier throughout the year — whether it’s by keeping our lawns immaculate or babysitting during date nights. The holidays are an ideal time to show gratitude for the work they do throughout the year.

  • Got a savings goal? Consider forming a savings circle

    June 22, 2022 - 4:01 AM

    A breezy January morning made the mid-30 temperatures feel even chillier. But it was an important day for the young man pushing 30 himself . He was about to face his entire family to ask for a loan to seed his new business idea.

  • Blowers, mowers and more: American yards quietly go electric

    September 16, 2021 - 6:42 AM

    For Jared Anderman, of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, switching from gasoline-powered tools to electric ones for lawn care was a no-brainer.

  • Amazon's mission: Getting a 'key' to your apartment building

    July 22, 2021 - 11:05 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is tired of ringing doorbells.

  • For South Sudan mothers, COVID-19 shook a fragile foundation

    July 22, 2021 - 1:12 AM

    JUBA, South Sudan - Paska Itwari Beda knows hunger all too well. The young mother of five children — all under age 10 — sometimes survives on one bowl of porridge a day, and her entire family is lucky to scrape together a single daily meal, even with much of the money Beda makes cleaning offices going toward food. She goes to bed hungry in hopes her children won’t have to work or beg like many others in South Sudan, a country only a decade old and already ripped apart by civil war.

  • For South Sudan mothers, COVID-19 shook a fragile foundation

    July 22, 2021 - 1:09 AM

    JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Paska Itwari Beda knows hunger all too well. The young mother of five children — all of them under age 10 — sometimes survives on one bowl of porridge a day, and her entire family is lucky to scrape together a single daily meal, even with much of the money Beda makes cleaning offices going toward food. She goes to bed hungry in hopes her children won’t have to work or beg like many others in South Sudan, a country only a decade old and already ripped apart by civil war.

  • A pandemic clothing purge is on as normal life resumes in US

    July 07, 2021 - 10:16 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Alina Clark is about as tired of her pandemic wardrobe as her comfort clothes are stretched and torn.

  • Downtown stores, businesses await their customers' return

    May 17, 2021 - 5:09 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — In many downtown areas where companies closed their offices and commuting ground to a halt, sandwich shops, bakeries and other small businesses are waiting with guarded optimism for their customers to return.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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