Category Archives: WPTF News
Diners are skipping restaurants and making more meals at home as inflation trend inverts
By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) - Eating in is in and eating out is out.That’s the message that inflation-squeezed consumer s have been sending to fast-food companies and oth...
Sep 26, 2024
US economy grew at a solid 3% rate last quarter, government says in final estimate
WASHINGTON (AP) - The American economy expanded at a healthy 3% annual pace from April through June, boosted by strong consumer spending and business investment, the government said, leaving its previ...
Sep 26, 2024
Israel tells its troops to prepare for a possible ground operation in Lebanon
By MELANIE LIDMAN, TIA GOLDENBERG and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated PressTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israel is preparing for a possible ground operation in Lebanon, its army chief said Wednesday as Hezbollah...
Sep 25, 2024
Top aide for North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is resigning, adding to staff separations
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The top aide to North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson within state government is quitting, a state official said Wednesday, marking another staff separation from the Rep...
Sep 25, 2024
Fluoride in drinking water poses enough risk to merit new EPA action, judge says
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical WriterNEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to further regulate fluoride in drinking water because high levels could pose a ris...
Sep 25, 2024
10 homes have collapsed into the Carolina surf. Their destruction was decades in the making
By BEN FINLEY Associated PressNORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A slow-motion catastrophe has been playing out in the coastal North Carolina village of Rodanthe, where 10 houses have fallen into the Atlantic since ...
Sep 25, 2024
Father of teenage suspect in Hedingham mass shooting pleads guilty to gun storage crime
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The father of a teenager accused in a 2022 mass shooting in North Carolina's capital city that left five people dead pleaded guilty Wednesday to storing improperly a handgun that ...
Sep 25, 2024
Stock market today: Wall Street edges back from its record highs
By STAN CHOE AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks edged back from their records Wednesday as financial markets around the world took a pause following big recent moves.The S&P 500 slipped...
Sep 25, 2024
Governor Cooper declares State of Emergency as Hurricane Helene approaches North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. (WPTF) - Governor Roy Cooper declared a State of Emergency today as North Carolina braces for the arrival of Hurricane Helene, which is expected to bring life-threatening conditions to t...
Sep 25, 2024
A tale of crushing security lapses and missed chances to stop the man who shot Trump
By COLLEEN LONG and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) - The acting director of the Secret Service was incensed at what had happened that July evening. "What I saw made me ashamed," Ronal...
Sep 25, 2024