Randolph County Sheriff’s Office charged Salvador Escobar, 48, with felony human trafficking: Randolph County Sheriff’s Office A man has been charged with human trafficking after he allegedly kept a sex slave for five years. Salvador Espinoza Escobar, 48, is accused of “withholding basic needs in exchange for forced sexual acts” with the woman since January […]
Mississippi postal worker Sherry Ingold died on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020 after being shot. This photo is from Facebook group Sherry’s Fight, where people rallied to support the postal worker. JACKSON, Miss. – A Mississippi postal worker who was shot while delivering mail last week has died. Sherry Ingold died at the University of Mississippi […]
A few years ago, I left my career as a physical therapist at age 41. I decided to pursue a completely different financially independent, retired early (FIRE) lifestyle. Around the same time, my parents asked me to go over their finances with them. They were preparing for traditional retirement in their 60s. After years of […]
It’s been a brutal month for baseball. The Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal has rocked the league, causing unprecedented punishment and three managers to lose their jobs. But this week, baseball fans can take a break from the scandal and focus on something more positive: the Hall of Fame. Major League Baseball announced its 2020 Hall […]
Dear Moneyist, I live with my 65-year-old widowed mother and my two adolescent daughters, who are 11 and 13 years old. My father gave me half of the ownership of the house when he died. My mom is dating a 75-year-old man who lives nearby at a retirement home. My youngest daughter told me that […]
U.S. equity markets have experienced downbeat trade this past week as investors kept one eye trained on a deadly flu outbreak in China. However, gauged by the market’s performance during the onset of other infectious diseases, including SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, Ebola and avian flu, Wall Street investors may have little to fear […]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average increased more than 22% in 2019 and is already up 2.2% through three weeks of 2020, but it is about to face its biggest test of the young year, and potentially many years. Nearly half of the 30 Dow DJIA, -0.58% components are scheduled to report results from the holiday […]
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Two of Bernie Sanders’s highest-profile allies, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, filled in for him on the campaign trail Friday night, speaking to a rally here at the University of Iowa, as the Vermont senator participated in the impeachment trial in Washington, D.C. Their message to […]
NEW YORK (Project Syndicate) — Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Md., was the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Although he was one of the Founding Fathers, Carroll was not allowed to hold public office because he was Catholic. This changed only in 1788, when the Constitution prevented Congress from establishing […]
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