A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announcement at Walmart ordering all black people in the Washington Township, southern New Jersey store to leave, facing an afflicting harassment and bias intimidation, authorities revealed on Saturday.

Official numbers have confirmed that the rate of unemployment across US managed to stay at 9.7% throughout February, and employers axed fewer jobs than initially expected, hinting that there is a definite improvement in the labor market, despite the blizzards in the East Coast forcing temporary closing of some businesses.

Washington DC is set to become the first city in the United States to distribute female condoms for free. As a part of the project, 500,000 of them will be made available in beauty salons, convenience stores and selected high schools, in parts of the city where the HIV rates are high.

A Capitol Hill couple got more than expected from after what they thought was a routine Fed Ex delivery. The box they received is reported to contain $120,000 worth of pot, MyFoxDC.com posted.

Inside the box was another box wrapped with insulation.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. closes Carson River Community Bank in Nevada and Rainer Pacific Bank in Washington, reporting the 21st and 22nd failures of federally insured banks this year.

Prior to the Commerce Department’s durable goods report, due Feb. 25 in Washington, the U.S. economist anticipated the orders for durable goods in January to increase the maximum in four months. It was also said that home sales signaled towards a constant approach resulting in revival of U.S. economy.

The health insurance rate hike spree, which most of the country’s health insurers are apparently on, has not only irked the affected customers, but has also led to a country-wide uproar, promoting federal investigations.

Despite being faced with all-time high levels of red ink in the near future, Washington ended up spending $2.5 Million for census advertisements, by rolling these during the Super Bowl.

A snow-storm hammered the Mid-Atlantic States and the US capital on Saturday resulting in power cuts and leaving emergency crews struggling with heavy, wet snow that stacked almost 2 feet on roadways and collapsed trees.

As President Barack Obama completes his first year in power, a Washington Post-ABC News poll has discovered that the once highly popular President now faces a "polarized nation" and rapidly souring public assessment of his efforts to bring a change to Washington.