US waitress gets $446 tip on $6 meal

A waitress in Indiana was in for a surprise when she received 446 dollars tip on a 6-dollar meal by one of her regular customers. According to NBC affiliate WTHR, CeCe Bruce, a part-time student at Martin University in Indianapolis, has been employed by a local Steak 'n Shake restaurant as a waitress for two years. When Bruce first collected Miss Jo's credit card receipt on Wednesday morning, ...

New York college student shot to death

Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday’s evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five with critical injuries, Gov. Dannel Malloy ...

2 fires north of LA persist after long fire week

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) -- A pair of tamed but persistent wildfires still burned in the hills and mountains around Interstate 5 after a wild week of burning brush in the area north ...

Hitchhiker arrested in NJ slaying

ELIZABETH, N.J. – Two cups of coffee ended life on the run for an Internet sensation known as Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker.An employee at a Starbucks in Philadelphia is credited with recognizing 24-year-old Caleb “Kai” McGillvary, whose fledgling celebrity took a turn toward notoriety when authorities announced this week that he was wanted in the beating death of a New Jersey ...

Legislators place IRS in hot seat

WASHINGTON – The firestorm buffeting the Internal Revenue Service intensified Friday as lawmakers began what they promised would be an extensive effort to learn whether there was any political motivation or White House involvement in the agency’s recently acknowledged misdeeds. Fueling those concerns, J. Russell George, the Treasury Department’s top tax watchdog, said Friday he ...