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A state appeals court intervened Thursday in an ongoing legal battle involving Lyft and Uber, granting an emergency order to prevent a planned shutdown of ride services in California. Lyft announced in a blog post earlier Thursday that the company will suspend its operations Thursday night across California. Operations were expected to halt beginning at 11:59 p.m. Thursday, the company…

A 36-year-old man in Florida is charged with battery and child abuse after he tore down a plastic safety partition and attacked a Lyft driver. According to a sheriff’s press release, the man was charged with child abuse because a 7-year-old boy was riding in the car and the attack put him in danger.

The driver said after canceling the ride, the irate passenger threw her beverage across the backseat, and later came back to curse and spit in his face

The rideshare industry is making drastic changes to the way you ride.

Police say an Allston woman who thought she was getting into a ride-sharing service car reported that she was kidnapped near Boston’s busy Faneuil Hall and taken on a half-hour drive before managing to escape near the New Hampshire border. The woman in her 20s said she ordered a Lyft around 12:50 a.m. Sunday after spending the night out...

The actor was in Miami promoting his new movie, “Bad Boys for Life,” over the weekend. He picked up four riders in a 2020 Porsche Taycan, occasionally getting into the attitude of his movie character detective Mike Lowry and encouraging passengers to do their best Bad Boys imitation as his partner in crime.

Uber reports more than 3,000 U.S. sexual assaults on 2018 rides in long-awaited safety report.

New York will be the first state to make tuition at public colleges and universities free for middle-class students under a state budget approved by lawmakers Sunday.

If you woke up to a weird text that seemed totally out of place, you aren’t alone. A mysterious wave of missives swept America’s phones overnight, delivering confusing messages from friends, family and the occasional ex. Friends who hadn’t talked to each other in months were jolted into chatting. Others briefly panicked. A telecom vendor called Syniverse said a server...

Ride-hailing company Lyft is offering free transportation in Hartford to former prison inmates through a new partnership with the city and a nonprofit criminal justice reform group.

The Democrats who rule California took on homegrown tech giants Uber and Lyft over their workforces, convinced some of the world’s biggest automakers to buck the president on fuel emissions and passed a law that could change college sports nationwide.

The California Senate has passed a bill that would give new wage and benefit protections to workers at so-called gig economy companies like Uber and Lyft.

Ride-sharing company Lyft is facing a major lawsuit and face accusations of not doing enough in response to sexual assaults.

A missing toddler reported kidnapped near Pittsburgh over the weekend was found dead Tuesday in a park in a neighboring county.

The open floor plan has become a minefield of distractions for office workers — the incessant ringing of phones, the chatter of co-workers, typing on keyboards — all of which threaten to undermine a productive workday. Enter the office pod. These sleek, self-contained booths are increasingly being sought by employers and have been embraced by workers. They provide a quiet...

The body of Mackenzie Lueck has been recovered in Utah, weeks after the Southern California college student went missing after returning to school.

A suspect was arrested Friday morning in the death of a University of Utah student who vanished after returning to Salt Lake City on a flight from her native Southern California, police said.

A man whose home was searched as police investigate the disappearance of a Utah college student was named a “person of interest” in the case Thursday, and police were trying to find a mattress that had been inside his home. The announcement came shortly after authorities spent about 19 hours searching the man’s home in a middle class Salt Lake...

Slack’s newly public shares aren’t slacking off. The work messaging service’s market value grew 60% after it started trading Thursday under the ticker “WORK.”

Wall Street capped a broad rally for stocks Thursday by driving the S&P 500 index to an all-time high. The milestone, which eclipsed the benchmark index’s last record close on April 30, underscores a swift rebound for the market in June that has erased the losses from a 6.6% dive in May. The major U.S. stock indexes are up more...