A recall for overheating laptop batteries made by Panasonic was expanded this week. Other recalled consumer products include Laz-Z-Boy chairs. Here’s a more detailed look: LAPTOP BATTERIES DETAILS: This expanded recall involves Panasonic lithium-ion battery packs installed in 18 models of Sony’s VAIO Series laptop computers. Sony has expanded the… Read More

A Fort Bliss soldier has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for trying to smuggle two immigrants through a South Texas border checkpoint. Joseph Edmond Cleveland of El Paso was sentenced Thursday in Corpus Christi. Cleveland pleaded guilty to conspiracy-related human smuggling counts. Officials say Cleveland tried to… Read More

Authorities in South Carolina believe an 80-year-old woman had no idea until she went through airport security that the walking cane she was attempting to take on an airplane contained a hidden sword. News outlets report that Transportation Security Administration regional spokesman Mark Howell recounted the incident Thursday at Myrtle… Read More

With her move to Washington, Ivanka Trump isn’t just taking on a new city; she’s navigating a different world. A few weeks into her father’s administration, the first daughter is settling into a life that might look familiar to a certain type of urban mom. She’s been visiting her kids’… Read More

The Northeast is digging out from a winter storm that dumped a foot or more of snow along the New York-to-Boston corridor, forced the cancellation of schools in cities big and small and grounded thousands of flights. The storm Thursday came a day after temperatures soared into the 50s and… Read More

Adele Dunlap, the oldest person in America, has died at age 114. Dunlap died Sunday at a hospital near Flemington, according to the Martin Funeral Home. She became the country’s oldest person in July 2016 following the death of 113-year-old Goldie Michelson, of Worcester, Massachusetts. Weird “brown bottle” invention could… Read More

A report shows nearly one in five immigrants in the U.S. illegally live in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas. The report released Thursday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center estimates more than 2 million immigrants in the country illegally lived in the two areas in 2014. Pew… Read More

At 74, the Queen of Soul has decided to take it a little easier. Aretha Franklin is planning to retire this year, she told Detroit TV station WDIV Local 4, the city’s NBC affiliate. The singer says she will make one more album, with several tracks produced by Stevie Wonder,… Read More