NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are slightly lower Wednesday morning as energy companies and makers of chemicals and other materials take the biggest losses. A survey of private employers showed that hiring continued at a solid pace in August, but stocks are wrapping up a quiet month. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average … Continue reading
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A woman who was kidnapped at gunpoint by her husband while he was under home confinement on charges he beat and abducted her two months earlier was found dead inside a barn, and he was hospitalized with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, state police said Wednesday. Police found the couple Tuesday night after … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening moderately higher on Wall Street as the market comes off three days of losses. Banks rose the most in early trading Monday. Herbalife rose after activist investor Carl Icahn, the company’s largest shareholder, said he has increased his stake. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average rose 72 … Continue reading
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) It was in early morning darkness that officers scrambled to sort out the chaos at an Albuquerque apartment complex where a couple had reportedly been attacked, the woman bleeding from a head injury and the man sporting a black eye and wearing blood-stained shorts. The woman told officers her 10-year-old daughter was … Continue reading
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