06.08.12 | Sarah Harnisch
The doctor was given misdemeanor charges, not a felony, for driving drunk and killing an 18-year-old last July in Amherst. He said he didn't know he'd hit her. Now, Senator Patrick Gallivan is proposing to close a so-called loophole in the current ...
06.08.12 | Sarah Harnisch
If you're buying a house, there is great news. If you just bought one, don't kick yourself too hard. Mortgage rates sank to another new low today. The average rate on a 30-year loan is now 3.67 percent. 15-year rates are 2.94 percent. It's the ...
06.08.12 | Sarah Harnisch
Cars can now stop accidents. The federal government will run a test with 3-thousand drivers in Michigan this summer to see how new technology works that allows cars to talk to each other within a thousand feet. Then they stop-- if there's going to ...
06.08.12 | Sarah Harnisch
The Texas Department of Transportation announced this week the speed limit on part of the toll road being built between Austin and San Antonio will be 85-miles an hour. That will not only make it the highest speed limit in the U.S., but the second ...
06.07.12 | Sarah Harnisch
Just in case you missed seeing a crane unload the 174-thousand pound Enterprise space ship onto the deck of the Intrepid Space Museum in New York city, NASA has you covered. They taped the whole thing and made a time lapse video. You can check it ...
06.07.12 | Sarah Harnisch
A federal judge in New York has ruled the Defense of Marriage Act, which protects traditional marriage, is unconstitutional. The ruling by Manhattan federal court judge Barbara Jones followed a decision last week from a U.S. appeals court in ...
06.07.12 | Sarah Harnisch
A new package of bills in Albany supported by good-government groups will allow New Yorkers to register to vote over the internet, computerize voter registration, and encourage teenagers to register even before they're eligible to vote. The ...
06.07.12 | Sarah Harnisch
Scientists have designed a new test to check for genetic faults, and it could lead to more abortions. An American team of scientists have been able to predict the entire genetic code of a fetus by taking a blood sample from a woman who was 18-weeks ...
06.06.12 | Sarah Harnisch
The United States has added about 170-thousand jobs a month the past few months, which makes this a pretty sweet deal for Pennsylvania. Governor Tom Corbett is giving Shell Oil a 1.7 billion dollar tax break, if they come to Pennsylvania. It's a 25 ...
06.06.12 | Sarah Harnisch
The two space-ready scopes were built by Eastman Kodak more then a decade ago, and right now, they're sitting in a clean room at the company's former Elmgrove facility in Gates, New York, awaiting their transfer to NASA. You won't get a chance to ...