A Bright Economic Outlook: Kool Smiles Plans to Hire Nearly 100 South Carolina Residents in the Next 12 Months
Increased Patient Demand Fueling Expansion Plans for Leading Dental Health Provider
FBI Joins Search for Missing 2-Year-old Washington Boy
The FBI has joined the search for a 2-year-old Washington state boy who was last seen by his mother inside a parked car.
Sky Metalwala was reported missing Sunday morning after his mother discovered him missing from her car in Bellevue, Wash.
The child's mother, Julia Biryukova, told police that she had run out of gas and left the boy buckled into his car seat while she and her 4-year-old daughter walked to a Chevron gas station, about a mile away.
Conrad Murray guilty in death of Michael Jackson
Cardiologist Conrad Murray has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the drug-overdose death of Michael Jackson. Prosecutors accused him of administering a fatal dose of the powerful anesthetic propofol to the King of Pop.The judge ordered Murray held without bail until sentencing Nov. 29.
D.A.: Conrad Murray unlikely to serve 'appropriate' sentence
Cooley said legislation that calls for some state prison inmates to be returned to county jails will probably mean that Murray -– who was handcuffed and taken into custody after his conviction -– will probably not serve “an appropriate sentence.”
Murray faces a maximum term of four years in prison when he is sentenced Nov. 29.
SC's new voter ID law could hit GOP seniors
New census measure shows aid programs are helping poor children
A new, more accurate way of measuring poverty shows that antipoverty programs are working to keep children from falling into absolute deprivation.The U.S. Census Bureau released a supplemental poverty measure Monday that shows children's poverty is at lower levels than previously calculated, thanks to
"It looks like the programs are targeted well at families with children, bringing many up out of poverty," said Kathleen Short, the Census Bureau economist who wrote the report.
At the same time, the report shows that the number of
49.1 million people are poor, new Census estimates show
The ranks of America's poor are greater than previously known, reaching a new level of 49.1 million — or 16%— due to rising medical costs and other expenses that make it harder for people to stay afloat, according to new Census estimates.
Based on the revised formula, the number of poor people exceeds the record 46.2 million, or 15.1%, that was officially reported in September.
Banning Sodas At School Not Enough, Say Experts
Although children are not buying sugary drinks at school because of state bans, their overall consumption of such beverages does not seem to have dropped, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago reported in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine after carrying out a study involving nearly seven thousand pupils in 40 US states.Emergency warning test coming to every radio and TV in the nation
This is only a test. Seriously.
That's what the Federal Emergency Management Agency wants the public to know about the first nationwide test of the emergency alert system, scheduled for Wednesday.
The decades-old warning system is often tested locally, but it’s never been tested on every radio and TV station in the country at the same time, according to FEMA.
The agency is trying to get the word out about the test to avoid unnecessary alarm like, say, the panic caused by Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast of a fictional Martian invasion in New Jersey.
Officials also want to prevent the test from tying up 911 phone lines.
"We have alerted our 911 call centers about the possibility for increased call volume during the Nov. 9 test,'' Alisa Simmons, a spokeswoman for the 911 network in Tarrant County, Texas, said in a statement appealing to the public not to call to inquire about the exercise.
Wednesday's 30-second test, which will sound and look like the familiar local tests, will begin at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST). Some 30,000 radio and TV operations will participate in the test.
Federal officials considered a three-minute test but decided on 30 seconds "to reduce any potential disruptions to the American people, while still maintaining our ability to test the system's nationwide capabilities," said FEMA spokeswoman Rachel Racusen.
Woods: Williams apologized over racial slur
Tiger Woods says he has received an apology from former caddie Steve Williams over a racial slur, and the two met and shook hands Tuesday at The Lakes Golf Club ahead of the Australian Open.At a caddies' awards party last week, Williams talked about a television interview he gave following his new employer Adam Scott's win at the Bridgestone Invitational, saying "it was my aim to shove it up that black a---."
Woods said Tuesday the comment "was hurtful ... the wrong thing to say, and something that he has acknowledged. Stevie is not racist."
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