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Facebook reports 4Q profit, user growth despite challenges
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook had a strong fourth quarter as it made more money on advertising and added more users despite challenges around regulation, privacy and efforts to fight election interference....
Jan 29, 2020

Grounded jet sends Boeing to first annual loss in 2 decades
Boeing, an icon of American manufacturing, suffered its first annual financial loss in more than two decades while the cost of fixing its marquee aircraft after two deadly crashes soared to more than ...
Jan 29, 2020

Coach on Bryant helicopter put "heart and soul" in teaching
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Christina Mauser poured her heart and soul into coaching and teaching physical education at the school where young Gianna and her basketball star father Kobe Bryant were an int...
Jan 29, 2020

Countries evaluate evacuation of citizens in virus epicenter
TOKYO - Countries with citizens in the central Chinese city that's the epicenter of a viral outbreak are planning evacuations as the number of illnesses grow and China takes drastic measures to try to...
Jan 29, 2020

2 arrested in SC bar shooting that killed 2 and wounded 4
HARTSVILLE, S.C. - Police have arrested two suspects in a weekend shooting that killed two people and wounded several others at a South Carolina bar, authorities said. The suspects were taken into cus...
Jan 29, 2020

Amid impeachment and Iowa, 2020 top tier jilts New Hampshire
MANCHESTER, N.H. - New Hampshire isn't used to being neglected. The most prominent candidates in the 2020 presidential race spent months last year making their case to New Hampshire voters, but many o...
Jan 29, 2020

China virus outbreak rams global tourism, costing billions
Businesses around the world that have grown increasingly reliant on big-spending tourists from China are taking a heavy hit, with tens of millions of Chinese residents restricted from leaving their co...
Jan 29, 2020

Thirty-seven men facing solicitation charges
Thirty-seven people are facing solicitation charges after an enforcement initiative focused on criminal activities in the Grande Prairie area.Members of the Grande Prairie RCMP, Crime Reduction Unit, ...
Jan 29, 2020

Lakers' next game postponed after Kobe Bryant's death
LOS ANGELES - The NBA has postponed the Los Angeles Lakers' next game against the Clippers on Tuesday night after the deaths of retired superstar Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others in a helico...
Jan 29, 2020

Canada captain Christine Sinclair ties world scoring record with goal No. 184
EDINBURG, Texas - Canada captain Christine Sinclair tied Abby Wambach's world-record total of 184 goals on Wednesday, scoring against St. Kitts and Nevis at the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Cha...
Jan 29, 2020