The Alex cartoon strip was started in a bit of a hurry one day in 1986. One of us, Charles Peattie, had a commission to ...

Harold Weeks, the former president for the NAACP in Collier County, has died. He made his mark in so many ways, on family, ...

Legendary director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were found dead inside their Los Angeles home on Sunday, 14.

Philadelphia — A wheel cranks on the machine at the Independence Visitor Center, slowing with every turn until: CLINK! A reward drops out the bottom waiting to be collected. It’s a familiar, elongated ...

Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into the Internet river for quite a while, including stints at MSNBC.com, MSN, Bing, MoneyTalksNews, Tipico and more. He admits to being ...

An iconic sweet shop in Live Oak will be shuttering its doors the day before Thanksgiving, unless someone steps forward to buy it. The Penny Candy Store has served up scrumptious goodies to local ...

CHARLESTON — A penny saved has always been a penny earned. But now they’re becoming more like collector’s items. The penny shortage that began this summer is only poised to get worse heading into the ...

FILE - A sign in a Kwik Trip store shows the store will no longer be using pennies to give change, Oct. 23, 2025, in Yorkville, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File) (CN) — The government’s phasing out of ...

The American penny is history. The nickel might be next. The last pennies were pressed at the US Mint in Philadelphia on Wednesday, a victim of production costs higher than their worth coupled with ...

KNOWLTON, Quebec — Louise Penny was eager to show me an important book — the one she said is at the core of her wildly successful Armand Gamache mystery series — but she couldn’t find it. The floor-to ...

Another possible repercussion of the penny's passing? Some colorful colloquialisms making use of the word "penny" might not make any cents – I mean sense – in the near future. These days, phrases and ...