06.12.12 |
Have you ever been admitted to the hospital, and had a hard time sleeping because of noise? Electronic beeping, nurses talking, and ice machines are the loudest culprites. Apparently, the hospital staff knows they're loud. They just did a study to ...
06.12.12 |
The wealth of American families dived 40-percent in three years. The federal government says it's due to the recession and the housing crisis. In 2007, the average American family's net worth dropped from over 126-thousand dollars, to only ...
06.11.12 |
Tom Corbett is not Pennsylvania's most popular Governor. 18 months into his term, he's hit a glass ceiling on favorability. He has yet to crack the all-important 50-percent mark in his approval ratings among state voters. He may still be a 2-term ...
06.11.12 |
Jet Blue and Virgin America have agreed to allow families to sit together on their airplanes at no extra cost. It was all after New York Senator Chuck Schumer held a national press conference about the extra fees, which can be as high as 25-dollars ...
06.11.12 |
Time Magazine is reporting a lack of pastors in churches in America's rural communities. Congregations in those areas are shrinking, and thereby becoming too poor to attract young pastors. Less then half the nation's rural churches have a full ...
06.11.12 |
New York gas prices continue to fall. The average price for a gallon of gas has fallen in Chemung County by 25 cents in just the last month. Officials from the website "GasBuddy.com" say prices could fall to as low as 3-50 a gallon by the end of ...
06.08.12 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 ...
