The data of nearly all customers of the telecommunications giant AT&T was downloaded to a third-party platform in a 2022 security breach in a year already rife with massive cyberattacks. The company said Friday that the breach hit customers of AT&T’s cellular customers, customers of …
Wholesale prices in the United States rose by a larger-than-expected 2.6% last month from a year earlier, a sign that some inflation pressures remain elevated. The increase, the sharpest year-over-year increase since March 2023, comes at a time when other price indicators are showing that in…
The U.S. Department of Labor says Dollar General has agreed to pay a $12 million fine and improve conditions at its thousands of retail stores nationwide to make them safer for workers. The discount retailer and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration reached the settlement to reso…
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage fell slightly this week, a modest relief for home shoppers facing record-high home prices. The rate fell to 6.89% from 6.95% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, it averaged 6.96%. The average rate has mostly hovered around 7…
Inflation in the United States cooled in June for a third straight month, a sign that the worst price spike in four decades is steadily fading and may soon usher in interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. In a better-than-expected report, consumer prices declined 0.1% from May to June aft…
Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market remains sturdy despite high interest rates. The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims for the week ending July 6 fell by 17,000 to 222,000 from 239,000 the previous week. The total number of Americ…
Costco bargain hunters are going to have to pay an additional $5 to $10 annually as the popular warehouse chain prepares to raise its membership fees for the first time in seven years. The Issaquah, Washington, company disclosed the forthcoming 8% increase in the fee to gain entry into its …
Here’s what to know about Costco’s hike, which comes after key rivals Sam’s Club and Amazon raised their membership fees.
Inflation in the United States cooled in June for a third straight month, a sign that the worst price spike in four decades is steadily fading and may soon usher in interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. In a better-than-expected report, consumer prices declined 0.1% from May to June after having remained flat the previous month, the government said Thursday. Measured from 12 months earlier, prices were up 3% in June, down from 3.3% in May. The latest inflation readings could help convince the Fed’s policymakers that inflation is returning to its 2% target.
Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market remains sturdy despite high interest rates. The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims for the week ending July 6 fell by 17,000 to 222,000 from 239,000 the previous week. The total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits declined for the first time in 10 weeks. About 1.85 million Americans were collecting jobless benefits for the week of June 29, 4,000 fewer than the previous week. Weekly unemployment claims are widely considered as representative of layoffs.
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Costco bargain hunters are going to have to pay an additional $5 to $10 annually as the popular warehouse chain prepares to raise its membership fees for the first time in seven years. The Issaquah, Washington, company disclosed the forthcoming 8% increase in the fee to gain entry into its more than 700 warehouses in the U.S. and Canada as part of a monthly sales report Wednesday. The new fees, set to take effect Sept. 1, will boost the price of Costco’s basic Gold Star membership from $60 to $65 annually, while the cost for the premium Executive membership will rise from $120 to $130 annually.
DoorDash delivery drivers are accused of running red lights, traveling the wrong way, speeding and driving on sidewalks. “They have terrorized many of our pedestrians,” New York’s mayor said.
Rangers temporarily closed the roadway near the accident in order to safely lift the car from the geyser, where it had been fully submerged in 9 feet of water.
New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado joined a growing list of Democrats calling on Biden to end his presidential campaign.
Yazmeen "Yazzy" Williams, 31, the woman whose body was found in a sleeping bag on a New York City street, was a 2016 graduate of Buffalo State University's criminal justice program, Buffalo State announced Wednesday in a statement.
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A man on probation was arrested on multiple charges after the Jamestown Metro Drug Task Force and the Southern Tier Regional Task Force executed a search warrant Thursday afternoon at his home on Forest Park, Jamestown Police reported.
According to the report, authorities said the victims – a 24-year-old woman who died after she was stabbed in an apparent domestic dispute and a 24-year-old man who was found dead following a blaze shortly afterward – knew one another.
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Sept. 4, 1938 – June 11, 2024
A man on probation was arrested on multiple charges after the Jamestown Metro Drug Task Force and the Southern Tier Regional Task Force executed a search warrant Thursday afternoon at his home on Forest Park, Jamestown Police reported.
According to the report, authorities said the victims – a 24-year-old woman who died after she was stabbed in an apparent domestic dispute and a 24-year-old man who was found dead following a blaze shortly afterward – knew one another.
Sept. 12, 1934 – July 4, 2024
Eric J. Reyes, 39, was also convicted of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second-degree assault, and first-degree attempted assault.
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The first female commissioner of the Fire Department of New York says she plans to resign because it is time to “pass the torch” after two years in the job. In a statement Saturday, Laura Kavanagh didn't say when she plans to step down, but she said she will spend the next several months helping with the transition in leadership. Kavanagh says she made the decision over the last month, calling it a hard one. Mayor Eric Adams, who appointed her in October 2022, called Kavanagh a trailblazer and said it was her decision to leave the job.
Alec Baldwin has made his first public comments since the stunning early end to his trial in the killing of a cinematographer in New Mexico. Baldwin says in an Instagram post Saturday that there “are too many people who have supported me to thank just now” and "you will never know how much I appreciate your kindness toward my family.” The post was accompanied by a photo of the actor in a Santa Fe, New Mexico, courtroom, where a day earlier a judge threw out the involuntary manslaughter case against him. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer ruled that prosecutors wrongly withheld ammunition evidence from Baldwin's defense team.
A nearly three-year legal saga for Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer has ended without a verdict but with tears of relief for the actor and a small coterie of family who had settled into a somber routine inside a windowless New Mexico courtroom at trial. Inside the court, jurors dutifully scrawled notes and listened with steepled hands. But they were sent home early Friday as the criminal case against Baldwin collapsed amid gasps in the courtroom gallery and accusations that prosecutors “buried” evidence about ammunition.
The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse is in danger of toppling into the water, and advocates for the 150-year-old lighthouse in the middle of Hudson River are urgently trying to save it. Turbulence from passing commercial ships is speeding the deterioration of its wooden supports below. The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society is raising money to place a submerged steel curtain around the lighthouse. The ambitious preservation project could cost up to $10 million. The threat is so great the National Trust for Historic Preservation has placed the lighthouse on its 2024 list of the country's most endangered historic places.
Sept. 12, 1934 – July 4, 2024
Three elected officials blasted the approved payouts to outgoing President and CEO Henry Wojtaszek and two other executives as illegal and financially imprudent.
Assembly Member Monica Wallace, D-Lancaster, speaks Friday at a news conference, held to urge Western Region OTB board members to rescind the $500,000 in buyouts they agreed to pay three outgoing executives.
State Sen. Sean Ryan, D-Buffalo, blasted the "corruption" he sees at the Western Region OTB and urged its board to cancel $500,000 in buyouts promised to three outgoing OTB executives. The Friday news conference was held outside an OTB location in Cheektowaga.
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