Over 160 tragic victims of child sex trafficking were just rescued last week as part of a nationwide sting operation the FBI reported.
In addition to the 168 kids that were rescued from the sex trade, 281 pimps were arrested during the same period on state and federal charges.
"These are not faraway kids in faraway lands," FBI Director James Comey remarked in announcing the...
The the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce has just announced that 25,000 new jobs are coming to the Charleston area over the next 5 years. The Charleston Chamber has just finished conducting a study to determine what type of skilled workers employers will need to fill all those jobs in the years to come.
“Workforce shortages are happening across the country. You’re growing faster as a...
Lela Babb Burden was born on May 7, 1903 in Southampton County, she recently turned 111 years old. She remembers when people danced in the streets of Norfolk when Jack Johnson was crowned the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion in 1908. She wasn’t afraid to comment on the “white flight” in the 60's from Norfolk and Portsmouth to the region’s suburbs was silly,...
The legendary Star Wars creator, George Lucas has just announced the final winner of the host city to his overly-anticipated museum of art and movie memorabilia (most of which will undoubtedly be Star Wars related), in a huge victory for the nation’s third-largest city, Chicago won as the final selection.
The two other cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles were aggressive...
A new 'green paving' business, founded by Binghamton locals Zeljka Roksandic and Robert Gerard, is now showing incredible signs of growth. The business is headquartered at 123 Court St., where it distributes and sells recycled plastic grids for 'green' surfacing. They recently donated a total of 320 square feet of their product to create an access path at Columbus Park in the downtown Binghamton.
The...
Sean O’Connor from Atlanta was just blown out of his shoes on Saturday by lightning and miraculously lived to tell the story.
O’Connor, who recently turned 30, was casually raking his yard on Saturday morning when he heard a loud sudden crack. “It sounded like a tree falling over, it threw me across the driveway and knocked me out of my shoes.”
Disoriented, O’Connor initially...
Everyone's potential is limitless, especially now that most of the world is connected to the internet, so what's holding you back? We all have excuses for our lack of success, we are constantly saying things like, “Life got in the way,” or “I can’t handle anymore rejection.”
The good news is that we always have a choice to move past the...
The government is now tracking the great white sharks Katherine and Betsy in the Gulf of Mexico.
Researchers say Katherine, weighing 2,300 pounds, is only about 100 miles southwest from the Florida coast, and Betsy, at 1,400 pounds, was last tracked earlier this month 120 miles west of Sanibel Island, Fla., yet what just happened off the coast of Galveston to...
After Emmanuel Niyenzima's parents were both killed, the 24-year-old fled the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2009 he came to Houston to seek refuge and find a fresh start.
"Houston is a really good city. It is a place where your future can be born if you work hard. To get the opportunity to go to school full time is hard...
It has been science fiction for decades, but we are finally about the start launching regular, commercial space flights.
Virgin Galactic’s rocket plane, SpaceShipTwo a brainchild of Virgin's founder Richard Branson, is based on the Ansari X prize-winning SpaceShipOne, a solution to a challenging problem: How do you create a ship that can transport visitors to outer space and return them to...