New York increases security
Sixty-five 20-ton garbage trucks filled with sand will surround intersections around Times Square on New Year’s Eve in hopes of stopping truck attacks like those in Germany and France.
Where workers will get raises
Massachusetts and Washington state will have the highest new minimum wage in the U.S., at $11 per hour, in the new year. Seventeen other states, including Ohio, will also see raises.
Native American tribes worried
A newly designated national monument gives five tribes the chance to weigh in on how their ancestral land will be managed, but bureaucrats working under Trump’s cabinet appointees have the final say.
Clean power has backers
Some 20 officials in 16 states and the District of Columbia send a letter to Trump, calling on him to continue an Obama administration plan that seeks to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants.
Police chase ends with shooting
A suspected robber drives a small U-Haul truck through heavy Phoenix traffic and a posh neighborhood and passes at least one red light while leading police on an hour-long pursuit that ends when the man is shot.
Soap opera actress dead at 74
Barbara Tarbuck, a stage and screen actress who played Jane Jacks on soap opera General Hospital and Mother Superior Claudia on American Horror Story: Asylum, has died. She was 74.
Las Vegas hotel goes dark
The Rio casino in Las Vegas scrambles to find alternate lodging for guests after a power outage leads to the evacuation of 900 rooms.