iStock(NEW YORK) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied in volatile trade on Wednesday, the first full trading session after the worst Christmas Eve trading session in U.S. history. The index ended 1,086 points higher at 22,878 in the last hour of trade, an increase of 5 percent over Monday’s abbreviated session. It is the …
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Dec 26
Police seeking help in solving Christmas burglary
Between 11:30 PM on 12-24-18 and 12:30 AM on 12-25-18 two unknown individuals forcibly entered a business in the 500 block of South Sanborn, Mitchell SD. Stolen during the burglary was beer and bottles of alcohol. Estimated total damage and dollar loss in merchandise for this incident is over $500.00. One of the suspects is …
Dec 26
Dow Jones opens higher after brutal Christmas Eve trading session
iStock(NEW YORK) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened higher on Wednesday morning, the first trading session after the worst Christmas Eve trading session in U.S. history. The index traded as much as 245 points higher at 22,037, an increase of 1.1 percent after Monday’s abbreviated session, before giving up those gains. After the open, …
Dec 26
Koreas hold symbolic groundbreaking ceremony to link railroads across border
Korea Pool/Getty Images(KAESONG, North Korea) — The two Koreas held a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony in Kaesong, North Korea, on Wednesday to link the countries’ railroads across the border and modernize North Korea’s decades-old railway system. A delegation of 100 South Korean government officials, lawmakers and senior citizens separated from their families during the Korean War …
Dec 26
Four dead as car plows into tanker truck on New Jersey highway
WABC-TV(BERKELEY TOWNSHIP, N.J.) — Four people are dead after a sedan plowed into the back of a tanker truck in New Jersey overnight on Wednesday. The accident took place just before 3 a.m. on the Garden State Parkway in Berkeley Township, and four people in the white Nissan Infiniti died, New Jersey State Police said. …
Dec 26
Major storm to deliver heavy rain, snow for end of holiday week
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A major storm system is moving out of the west and will redevelop in the Plains, bringing severe storms to the south and heavy snow to the north. Up to 2 inches of rain fell in Southern California and up to 2 feet of snow fell on parts of the West …
Dec 26
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Mitchell’s 20th annual Community Christmas dinner at the Masonic Lodge was a crowd pleaser. Organizer Troy Magnuson was overwhelmed. “We fed right at 700 people, 350 of those were deliveries,” said Magnuson. “We had a ton of volunteer help, my heart is full.” He says Santa Claus also showed up. Magnuson says the theme of …
Dec 25
Hope fading for 15 coal miners trapped for weeks inside ‘rat-hole’ mine in northeast India
Vishwamanjunath Venktesh/EyeEm/Getty Images(LONDON) — Hope is fading over the fate of more than a dozen coal miners trapped for weeks deep inside one of northeast India’s notoriously dangerous “rat-hole” mines — as a rescue operation hobbled by limited resources has ground to halt while rescue crews try and locate a bigger water pump. “It all …
Dec 25
Police officer killed during traffic stop by impaired driver on Christmas Eve
LMPD(LOUISVILLE, Kentucky) — A police officer in Kentucky was killed by a driver allegedly under the influence while she was conducting a traffic stop on Christmas Eve. Detective Deidre Mengedoht, 32, pulled over a pickup truck in Louisville and was subsequently hit by a different semi-truck. “The semi pushed the police car into the truck …
Dec 25
GoRefundMe: 1,400 donors to alleged hoax fundraising campaign made whole
ABC News(PHILADELPHIA) — The fundraising website GoFundMe has fully refunded every one of about 14,000 people who donated more than $400,000 to a New Jersey trio now charged with concocting a cruel hoax involving a seemingly selfless homeless man, a gas can and a $20 bill. The scam first warmed, then broke the hearts of …