Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – U.S. stocks rose Thursday following news that the number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits hit a 3 1/2-year low. Just after the opening bell on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 40 points, the Standard & [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Charlotte, NC, United States (AHN) – Nearly one in three people will be arrested by the time they reach the age of 23, a new study shows. Criminologists from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte say that the study shows that “arrest is a pretty common experience.” The study, to [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The number of new death sentences in the United States fell to its lowest level in 35 years in 2011 thanks to a sharp decline in violent crimes, the high cost of pursing executions, and shifts in state sentencing laws. In 2011, 75 [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Arlington, TX, United States (AHN) – Are you a creative, motivated, dynamic individual who is highly organized, effective, has good communication skills, is great at problem solving and has an excellent track record? If you are, you are a cliche, according to the career network site LinkedIn. LinkedIn has [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Washington, DC, DC, United States (AHN) – The Food and Drug Administration has been overruled by the Obama administration in its efforts to allow teenage girls to buy the emergency contraceptive Plan B without a prescription. The FDA had sought to allow Teva’s Plan B to be sold without [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – The United States logged another month of lackluster job growth in November, but the mediocre growth was enough to push the unemployment rate down to 8.8 percent. The Labor Department said Friday that employers in the nation added 120,000 jobs in November, [...]
AHN Sports Staff NY, NY, United States (AHN Sports) – The NBA and its players have reportedly reached a deal to end the labor strife between the sides that has already cost the league several games. A 66 game schedule has been proposed with games to start on Christmas day between the Knicks-Celtics, Heat-Mavs and [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Atlanta, GA, United States (AHN) – Blood thinners, aspirin, insulin and oral diabetes drugs account for nearly 100,000 hospitalizations of older Americans every year. These four types of medications account for two-thirds of drug-related emergency hospitalizations for seniors. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Of the [...]
Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Initial jobless claims during the week ending Nov. 12 dropped to 388,000, the lowest level since April. That number was down by 5,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 393,000 first time claims for unemployment compensation, according to the U.S. Department of [...]
Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer New York, NY, United States (AHN) – A Chicago woman and her lawyer held a press conference in New York City on Monday and announced that Republican presidential contender Herman Cain sexually harassed her in 1997. Sharon Bialek revealed that Cain “put his hand under her skirt and [...]
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