CLAREMONT, Calif. – When a number of formerly incarcerated women last year received what they thought was a distress e-mail from a friend, Gloria Killian, saying she was stranded in Scotland penniless and needed to have money wired to her ASAP so she could fly back to California, at least two of them rushed to their banks to see how much they could pull out.

WASHINGTON (NNPA) —  Economists are breathing a sigh of relief after the Labor Depart­ment reported last week that employers added 163,000 workers to their payrolls last month, doubling the 80,000 jobs added in June.

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City voters are divided along racial lines over the New York Police Department's ``stop-and-frisk'' strategy, according to a poll released Thursday.

(CNN) -- Retiring baby boomers are cashing out on their decades of paying into Social Security. The problem? Social Security is no longer running a surplus, worrying many that the entitlement program is in trouble.

(CNN) -- A now defunct suburban Philadelphia swim club has agreed to a settlement more than three years after being accused of racism and discrimination for denying children from a largely minority day-care center access to their facility, the U.S. Justice Department said.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- A Tulsa County judge on Tuesday ordered two men accused of gunning down three black people and wounding two more in April to stand trial on first-degree murder counts.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Home construction, a key component in any U.S. economic recovery, is picking up.

(CNN) -- A web video featuring former special forces officers accuses President Barack Obama of taking too much credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden and allowing classified information about the raid to become public.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A joint federal and state probe into mortgage-backed securities fraud is close to "significant action," with a possible announcement in coming weeks or months, according to a source familiar with the probe.

(CNN) -- A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday decided not to restrict a controversial voter ID law from going into place.