National News

• Warren Buffett gets out of the newspaper business January 29, 2020
  Billionaire Warren Buffett is giving up on the newspaper business
• Mississippi inmate dies after collapsing at regional prison January 29, 2020
  The Mississippi Department of Corrections says an autopsy will be done on an inmate who died after he became ill while talking to a relative on the telephone
• US pending home sales tumbled 4.9% in December January 29, 2020
  Americans pulled back substantially on signing contracts to buy homes in December
• 737 Max costs double, Boeing posts first loss in 2 decades January 29, 2020
  Boeing is posting its first annual loss in more than two decades and said the costs related to the grounding of its best-selling plane have doubled to more than $18 billion
• Critics: Critical bank law is softened under Trump proposal January 29, 2020
  The Community Reinvestment Act has over past four decades spurred hundreds of billions of dollars in lending to low- and middle-income communities
• Georgia man set to be executed for killings of 2 people January 29, 2020
  Donnie Cleveland Lance, 66, is set to receive a lethal injection.
• Man accused of killing missing wife remains hospitalized January 29, 2020
  Officers investigating an apparent suicide attempt by a Connecticut man charged with murdering his estranged wife are at his house Wednesday for a second day
• Judge: Jurors can't hear of ex-astronaut's DUI in crash case January 29, 2020
  A judge is barring prosecutors from telling jurors about a former astronaut's drunken driving conviction in his upcoming trial over a deadly wreck
• Restaurant honors 'Good Samaritan' who helped stop abduction January 29, 2020
  A North Carolina man who a couple says saved their 8-year-old daughter from being kidnapped has been honored with free food for a year at the restaurant where he helped prevent the abduction
• Police seek dad, baby after 3 women killed in South Florida January 29, 2020
  Miami-Dade officers are searching for 49-year-old Ernesto Caballeiro.
• Ohio's toxic algae plan could give other states a blueprint January 29, 2020
  Ohio is rolling out a new strategy to save Lake Erie from the toxic algae that overwhelms it in the summer
• 10 Things to Know for Today January 29, 2020
  Get ready for Wednesday, January 29th with a few things to know about the day’s news from The Associated Press
• Crash-warning device might not have saved Bryant helicopter January 29, 2020
  A crash-warning device wasn't required on the helicopter that crashed and killed Kobe Bryant and eight others but experts say it's unclear whether the instrument would have saved their lives
• Another endangered Northwest orca missing, feared dead January 29, 2020
  Another endangered orca is missing and presumed dead in the Pacific Northwest
• Man gets 20 years for selling guns to terrorist group January 29, 2020
  A Colombian man who had been living in South Florida has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling firearms to a South American terrorist organization
• 3 women found dead in South Florida; baby missing January 29, 2020
  Police say they're are searching for a missing baby after three women were found dead in a South Florida home
• US beefs up screening of travelers for new virus from China January 29, 2020
  U.S. health officials have offered a reality check about the scary new virus from China: They're expanding screenings of international travelers and taking other precautions but, for now, they insist the risk to Americans is very low
• Police: Handcuffed man shot and killed inside cruiser January 29, 2020
  Witnesses said they either heard a struggle and heard loud bangs.
• Autistic futures trader who triggered crash spared prison January 29, 2020
  A U.S. judge has sentenced a socially awkward math whiz-turned-futures trader who helped trigger a U.S. stock market “flash crash” from his parents’ suburban London home to time served and a year's home confinement
• Trump rally rouses New Jersey shore town to life January 29, 2020
  Winter typically leaves many parts of New Jersey’s shore deserted, but President Donald Trump’s rally for Rep. Jeff Van Drew jolted Wildwood to life on Tuesday as rally-goers flocked to the seaside resort