A city woman who served as the secretary-treasurer for the American Postal Workers Union Local 776 plead guilty Tuesday to federal embezzlement charges after a yearslong investigation into union financial records revealed about $50,000 in misappropriated funds. Nicole DeStefano, 52, appeared ...
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate Wednesday for the first time since 2023 in an effort to quell stubbornly high inflation and the central bank also signaled that another rate hike could occur later this year. The quarter-point increase lifts the Fed’s key ...
The Blair County Convention Center’s net operating income for the first eight months of 2026 came in at $186,962, despite higher-than-budgeted costs for labor, food and beverages. In a financial report offered Wednesday to the authority that oversees the convention center, CEO Tom Schilling reported revenue through August at $1.94 million and expenses at $1.75 million. The report also identified higher-than-budgeted labor costs of nearly 38%, and higher-than-budgeted expenses for food and beverages of nearly 22% and 24%, respectively. But those increases, according to the report, ...
A therapy provider for kids with disabilities has quit leasing the Easter Seals building on Valley View Boulevard as a venue for those services, so that it can save money, disappointing the parents of some of its child patients. Procare had been losing significant money on the arrangement, due to low reimbursements from Medicaid, but had been off-setting some of those losses through a contract under which it provided daytime therapy for students of an area school, according to Procare Partner/ Director Jim Foreman. That unnamed school, however, recently cut ties with Procare, so that ...
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks slipped Wednesday after the Federal Reserve hiked its main interest rate for the first time in three years and suggested more may be ahead as it tries to get the nation’s high inflation under control. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% after giving up a modest gain from earlier ...
Nation District of Columbia FBI chief defends hiring policy changes WASHINGTON — FBI Director Kash Patel defended Tuesday a recent policy change to allow some applicants who have engaged in prostitution and bestiality to be considered for employment. The subject arose during a fiery Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in which Patel clashed with Democrats over his firing of agents who participated in investigations of President Donald Trump. Alabama Baptist church marks bombing anniversary BIRMINGHAM — Sixty-three years ago, dynamite planted by Ku Klux Klan members ...
