US employers announced 71,321 layoffs last month, according to a Thursday report from the global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, as workers stressed about the state of a sluggish job market.

A Concord man was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for raping a Napa teenager at her family’s home in 2022.

Initial applications for unemployment benefits in the week through Saturday plunged from already low levels. The labor market is showing the effects of overhiring during the pandemic.

Announced layoffs at US companies fell last month after surging in October, but were still the highest for any November in three years, according to data from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

A Virginia judge on Friday handed down five life sentences to former University of Virginia student Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., closing a wrenching week of testimony nearly two years after a shooting that devastated the Cavaliers' football program and the broader campus community.

Channing Tatum's animal-friendly directorial debut is one of Netflix's most popular movies right now — but is it worth watching?

On Friday, fifteen families received keys to new, fully furnished homes in the Chestnut Ridge Higher Ground Community in Knott County.

Honoring current and historic stars, the 2022 NBA All-Star Game delivers with triumphant moments for LeBron James and Stephen Curry. The 18-time All-Star will lead Team LeBron in Sunday's All-Star Game in Cleveland, just 35 minutes away from his hometown of Akron.

MIAMI GARDENS — Deandre Johnson, the former Miami Hurricanes linebacker who survived a stabbing in high school and tried to make the Miami Dolphins in 2022, has died. Johnson’s agent, Hector Antonio Ruiz, confirmed his death to The Palm Beach Post, although the cause of death could not be independently established. He was 26.

Bitcoin ETFs bled a record $3.79 billion in November 2025 as BTC tumbled 33% from $126K to $84K. Is this 2022's crypto winter all over again?

China set its daily reference rate for the yuan at a level that was significantly weaker than estimated by traders and analysts, suggesting the central bank is aiming to ease gains in the managed currency.

A Decatur woman has pleaded guilty to killing her husband in 2022 after prosecutors uncovered a troubling history of violence, threats, and instability inside the couple's home.