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Denver High School Shooting Suspect Dead, Coroner Confirms

DENVER—A body found in the Colorado woods near an abandoned car was that of a 17-year-old student accused of wounding two administrators in a shooting at his Denver high school, a coroner’s office said. Park County Sheriff Tom McGraw said the body was discovered Wednesday not far from the student’s car in a remote mountain…


Officials: Deadly Chicago High-Rise Fire Was Accidental

CHICAGO—Chicago authorities said Thursday that a deadly fire in a high-rise apartment building was caused by someone smoking in a bedroom. In a brief statement, the Chicago Fire Department called the fire accidental and said investigators traced the cause to “careless use of smoking materials.” Investigators also found that a smoke detector in the unit…


2 in Custody, 2 Sought in Fatal Shooting Outside High School

PHILADELPHIA—Police have named two more juvenile suspects in last month’s ambush shooting outside a Philadelphia high school that killed a 14-year-old and wounded four other teenagers after a football scrimmage. Police said they took a 17-year-old was into custody and are seeking a 15-year-old in the Sept. 27 shooting outside of Roxborough High School. Authorities…


Wall Street Ends Higher Following 7 Straight Weeks of Losses

NEW YORK—Stocks closed broadly higher Monday, an upbeat start to the week on Wall Street after seven weeks of declines that nearly ended the bull market that began in March 2020. The S&P 500 rose 1.9 percent, with technology and financial sector stocks doing much of the heavy lifting for the benchmark index. The Dow…


Costco Soars Into Blue Skies: Here’s How to Trade in All-Time Highs

Costco Wholesale Corporation gapped up into blue skies on Thursday and rose about 2 percent of the open to reach a new all-time high of $603.78. All-time highs generate excitement and interest that can translate into increased buying pressure and above-average volume. When a stock reaches an all-time high there is no oversupply, meaning every…


Virgin Galactic Rockets Higher After Latest Space Travel Announcement

Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. shares are trading higher Tuesday after the space travel company announce it will open ticket sales to the general public for the purchase of one of Virgin Galactic’s initial spaceflight reservations. During spaceflight, astronauts will experience a 90-minute journey including a signature air launch and Mach-3 boost to space. Virgin Galactic shares…


Honda Exec: High Auto Prices May Drop, but Not Dramatically

DETROIT—Honda expects its factories to make more vehicles this year despite a computer chip shortage and supply chain troubles. But because it’s starting the year with so few vehicles at dealers, the company expects U.S. sales to fall below last year’s numbers. The company expects U.S. new vehicle prices to ease a bit from the…


Strong Demand Pushes Rolls-Royce Sales to a Record High in 2021

LONDON—Luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce, a unit of Germany’s BMW, said on Monday its sales soared 49 percent to a record high in 2021 despite the global coronavirus pandemic, as demand worldwide for luxury vehicles surged. In an online presentation, Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös said the carmaker sold 5,586 vehicles to customers in more than 50 countries,…


Tech Company STMicro Reports Higher Than Expected Q4 Sales, Lifting Its Shares

PARIS—Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicroelectronics said its preliminary fourth-quarter revenues were slightly above the guidance given at the end of October, in the context of a global microchip supply crunch, which gave a lift to its shares. Sales for the last three months of 2021 increased by 11.2 percent sequentially, coming in at $3.56 billion which was…


Experts Count Coffee Trees in Brazil as Prices Hit 10-year Highs

NEW YORK/SAO PAULO—Coffee experts working for commodity trading houses are taking to the narrow, winding roads in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state as they tour the coffee belt checking 2022 crop prospects just as prices approach the highest levels in 10 years. This has been a difficult year for coffee farming in Brazil, the world’s largest…