These cities are offering free child care to parents and business property tax breaks

Last summer, Derrika Richard felt stuck. She didn’t have enough money to afford child care for her three youngest children, ages 1, 2 and 3. Yet the demands of caring for them on a daily basis made it impossible for Richard, a hairstylist, to work. One child care assistance program rejected her because she wasn’t … Read more

TSA expands its PreCheck program

FILE: An Alaska Airlines plane takeoff from SFO in June 2023. Tayfun CoSkun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images In the latest airline news, new construction at San Francisco International could delay flights for months, the airport warns; Alaska Airlines is boosting checked bag fees; regional carrier JSX orders hundreds of hybrid-electric planes to expand service to smaller … Read more

Another popular SFO airline is increasing checked bag fees

FILE: An Alaska Airlines plane takeoff from SFO in June 2023. Tayfun CoSkun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images In the latest airline news, new construction at San Francisco International could delay flights for months, the airport warns; Alaska Airlines is boosting checked bag fees; regional carrier JSX orders hundreds of hybrid-electric planes to expand service to smaller … Read more

Florida State blows up Cal, Stanford in fiery ACC lawsuit

Stanford and Cal last faced off on Nov. 18, 2023, as members of the Pac-12, but at least one member of their new conference doesn’t want them in the ACC. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Florida State University sued the ACC on Friday morning, with the apparent intention of getting a court to give it a cheaper … Read more

Fugitive wanted in money laundering case returns to Connecticut to face new charges, prosecutors say

The Superior Court building on Elm Street in New Haven. Ben Lambert STAMFORD — A man charged with laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars as a part of a marijuana-trafficking operation and who later fled to Texas has been arraigned in federal court on a superseding indictment, according to prosecutors.  Delroy Anderson, 56, formerly of … Read more