Category Archives: WPTF News

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business WriterDisney will pay Comcast’s NBCUniversal nearly $439 million for its stake in Hulu, taking full control of the streaming service.The move closes out an apprai...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina automobile insurance rates are poised to increase statewide by a 5% average this fall as part of an agreement reached between state regulators and the insurance ind...

By MICHAEL HILL Associated PressA judge on Monday dismissed the lawsuit that actor and director Justin Baldoni filed against his "It Ends With Us" costar Blake Lively after she sued him last year for ...

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball WriterDick Vitale is inextricably intertwined with college basketball, with his iconic voice, exuberant style and enthusiastic catchphrases melding into a soundtrack for n...

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National WriterNEW YORK (AP) - Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and '70s an...

By STAN CHOE AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks drifted through a quiet Monday as the world's two largest economies began talks on trade that could help avoid a recession.The S&am...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Dozens of dogs found living in packed, filthy conditions were removed from a North Carolina home.Animal control officers responding to a complaint in Raleigh discovered 101 dogs c...

CHICAGO (AP) - A bottlenose dolphin at a Chicago zoo gave birth to a calf early Saturday morning with the help of a fellow mom, in a successful birth recorded on video by zoo staff.The dolphin calf wa...

By SPENCER RIPCHIK Associated PressSARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - Sovereignty bested Journalism on Saturday in a Kentucky Derby rematch to win the 157th Belmont Stakes, the second hosted at S...

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) - Inside a Walmart store in New Jersey, a worker puts the finishing touches on a cake with an edible ink Sponge Bob on top. A colle...