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Utah and Colorado, two of the states with the lowest smoking rates in the country, are considering raising the age for tobacco use to 21.The proposals, which were favorably voted by lawmakers on Thursday, would treat tobacco as alcohol.
Lawmakers Eye Gay Conversion Therapy Ban Washington State lawmakers consider ban on gay conversion therapy conversion for children. KING's Abbey Gibb reports.
Dodger Stadium beating victim Bryan Stow's medical care will end up costing $34 million, according to attorneys.
Priceless fossilized dinosaur tracks, about 190 million years old, were reportedly chipped away from their sandstone casing on a trail near Moab, Utah.
It appears Justin Bieber has a lot at stake in the men's ice hockey semi-finals Friday.At least that's the joke in Skokie, Ill., a Chicago suburb where Bieber's image is plastered across a giant billboard, right between Blackhawk players Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews.
This week, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report saying that the proposal to increase the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour in 2016 would cost the creation of 500,000 jobs in 2016. While they did conclude that millions of families would be lifted out of poverty, they cautioned there would be real losers by adding people to the roles of the unemployed and underemployed.
Across the US, there's a growing push to expand absentee voter rights ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. NBC's Danielle Leigh reports.
Authorities said Knoxville, Tenn., police officers found a 4-month-old baby boy inside a stolen car just before 8:15 a.m., following a frantic search.The stolen Dodge Neon was found abandoned in a McDonald’s parking lot in west Knox County, according to NBC station WBIR. The baby was not injured.
The bright lights seen above are hundreds of thousands of computer controlled mirrors focusing Mojave Desert sunlight onto boilers on top of three 459-foot towers. The focused solar energy heats up water to produce steam that powers turbines providing power to California homes.
Police in Knoxville, Tenn., are searching for a stolen car with a 4-month-old baby boy inside.Dispatchers said officers were trying to locate a 2004 black Dodge Neon that was taken around 6:30 a.m. from a convenience store, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel.
