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The good, old-fashioned coupon – which surged in popularity in recent years – appears to be falling out of favor.Two separate studies show that coupon use declined significantly in 2012.One study, from coupon industry consulting firm Inmar, found that about 3 billion coupons were redeemed in 2012, a drop of about 14.3 percent from approximately 3.5 billion coupons redeemed in 2011. Another, from N...
Police are reviewing surveillance video showing a Long Beach, Calif., teacher who went missing in New Orleans more than three weeks ago and interviewing joggers with the hope of learning her whereabouts, police said Monday.Surveillance video shows Terrilyn Monette in her car and near a park in New Orleans on the morning of her disappearance on March 2, police said.She was last seen at a bar in a n...
The Supreme Court prepared Tuesday for a historic one-hour oral argument on marriage which could lead to any one of a wide array of possible decisions -- from essentially leaving in place the traditional marriage laws now on the books in most states to proclaiming same-sex marriage a fundamental right under the United States Constitution.Although the justices are deciding a constitutional question...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Rescue workers saved a hiker who was trapped under rocks for as many as eight days without any food and water, according to firefighters.Hiker Ramon Llamas and his German shepherd-mix "Molé" discovered the man about 8:30 a.m. PT (11:30 a.m. ET) Monday on Mount Rubidoux in Riverside, Calif."I said to the guy, 'You need help? Are you OK?' When he reacted, he says, 'Somebody ther...
A student from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island has been missing for more than a week and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is helping in a five-state search, according to the Providence Journal. Sunil Tripathi, 22, of Pennsylvania, was last seen on Friday, March 15 on the campus of the Ivy League university, according to the Journal, and the search has expanded to Connecticut, ...
The percentage of the U.S. population living in counties adjacent to coastline has reached nearly 40 percent in recent years, meaning more of us are exposed to extreme — and extremely costly — coastal storms such as Sandy and Isaac, according to a government report released Monday.These coastal counties account for less than 10 percent of the U.S. land area, excluding Alaska, meaning that this gro...
A 22-year-old man recreating what has recently become a popular stunt was killed after apparently leaving too much slack in the rope he was using to swing through a massive sandstone arch in Utah, police said Monday. Kyle Lee Stocking, of West Jordan, and five friends hiked to the Corona Arch in southeastern Utah on Sunday to attempt the stunt made famous on YouTube.But Stocking miscalculated the ...
Saying it was time to "hit the reset button" on the Camden School District, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Monday announced a planned takeover of the 26 schools that rank among the state's worst performers in graduation and academic proficiency. "Today we are taking the lead because for too long, the public school system in Camden has failed its children," Christie said at press conference...
"My client is absolutely, 1,000-percent not guilty," public defender Kevin Gough, who represents 17-year-old De'Marquise Elkins, told The Associated Press. He made the comments Monday, while preparing for Elkins' first court appearance on the murder charge. Elkins and 15-year-old Dominique Lang are charged in Thursday's shooting of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago who was in his stroller on a wal...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Alabama authorities are investigating what caused an airport sign in a recently renovated space to fall and kill a 10-year old boy and leave his mother in serious condition.Heather Bresette of Overland Park, Kansas, and several of her children were pinned under a flight display sign weighing 300 to 400 pounds that fell inside the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International A...
