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Independent retailers are gearing up for Small Business Saturday, a day used to promote mom-and-pop retailers, and many towns are doing their best to support the effort. In 2018, an estimated 104 million consumers shopped at independent retailers and restaurants on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. They spent $17.8 billion, the most since the shopping event was created by American Express...

After a summer full of sun, humidity and chlorine, our hair can use some rehab. Amanda Eberle, owner of Acure Eco Salon in West Hartford, Connecticut shares her tips for how to get your hair back to looking and feeling its best.

China upped the ante Monday in the ongoing tit-for-tat trade war between the world’s top economies. Beijing said it will raise tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods on June 1 in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s decision last week to hike duties on Chinese goods. This includes raising tariffs on more than 5,000 U.S. products to as high as...

NBC4’s Health and Fitness Expo is coming to the Washington Convention Center on January 12 and 13. You can watch cooking demonstrations at the Expo’s Cooking 4 You stage. Here is a healthy and delicious Blackened Chicken & Kale Bowl recipe that Matchbox Vintage Pizza Bistro will showcase at the Expo at 3pm Saturday afternoon. This recipe will be cooked…

Taking fish oil or vitamin D? Big studies give long-awaited answers on who does and does not benefit from these popular nutrients. Fish oil taken by healthy people, at a dose found in many supplements, showed no clear ability to lower heart or cancer risks. Same for vitamin D. But higher amounts of a purified, prescription fish oil slashed heart...

The internet is teeming with ideas on how to clean your car, but do they really work? If you travel with your perpetually hungry family (why are there always ketchup packets under the mat?), your continually shedding dog or your conspicuously smelly gym clothes, it’s time to get cleaning, my friend.

Craig Wooster was awakened just before 5:30 a.m. more than six months ago when his cellphone rang with news of the fires that had begun racing through California’s Wine Country, and that would eventually kill more than 40 people, destroy more than 8,500 buildings and leave thousands without power. The general contractor of a small, freestanding grid or microgrid that...

Chef John with Catering by John is sharing some delicious recipes that are sure to be a hit at your Super Bowl party.

Police in Italy and Germany seized 50 million euros ($60 million) in mafia assets Tuesday and arrested more than 160 people, accusing them of running a huge mob-controlled commercial and political empire involving everything from bread and wine sales to funeral services, migrant housing and garbage recycling. Prosecutors in southern Italy said the ‘ndrangheta’s Farao-Marincola clan had its hand in...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station had a pizza party, making and spinning their own personal pizzas

The first-ever pizza party in space is getting sky-high reviews. Astronauts at the International Space Station posted pictures and a video over the weekend of their small, made-from-scratch pizza pies. The fixings flew up last month on a commercial supply ship, and the crew wasted little time pulling out the flatbread, tomato sauce, cheese, pepperoni, olives, olive oil and anchovy...

The Thanksgiving feast may be over, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any food left to go around.

Think your Thanksgiving spread is going to be extravagant? It’s got nothing on one New York City restaurant’s turkey day offering.

Astronauts got a mouth-watering haul with Tuesday’s Earth-to-space delivery -pizza and ice cream.

A Massachusetts dispensary has a new spin on marijuana-infused edibles: a pub-style cheese pizza.

Bob Harper is hitting the equipment again after his heart attack a few weeks ago.

Kern County firefighters came to the rescue of a stray dog Saturday morning, freeing it from a piece of machinery.