At the American Film Institute's AFI Awards, held Friday, Jan. 9, Carol Burnett surprised a crowd that included George ...

People gathered in the nation’s capital on Saturday to pay their respects to the penny. A mock funeral, hosted by financial management platform Ramp, was held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, ...

Well, friends, the time has finally come: No longer will pennies roll out of the US Mint in giddy profusion. Last week, mourners marked (mocked?) the occasion at a funeral held, appropriately, outside ...

Hundreds of mock mourners headed to the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday to attend a “funeral” for the penny. Along with musicians playing taps, there were a couple of Abraham Lincoln look-alikes, actors ...

Robert Hoff was amazed the first time he saw a coin press machine in action in the 1970s. Hoff was in his twenties when a person passed him while carrying the machine and watched as they pressed ...

The penny received a “funeral” on Saturday, attended by mourners and Abraham Lincoln impersonators outside the Lincoln Memorial, after the U.S. Mint discontinued the coin last month. Hundreds attended ...

Penny mourners are gathering for a funeral in Washington, DC, for the discontinued cent at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, Dec. 20, just over a month after the United States stopped producing the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A penny for your thoughts? Well, not anymore. The cost of thoughts has risen. On November 12, the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia ensured that when it struck the last penny it’ll ever mint ...

Former NBA star Penny Hardaway now devotes most of his time to the film room, practice and the sideline while guiding the Memphis men’s basketball team. Hardaway, in his eighth year coaching the ...

The mourners had taken their seats. Many were dressed in black. Others wore veils and large hoop skirts, reminiscent of Victorian-era fashion. When the clock struck 1:01 p.m. (a time, organizers said, ...

How do you get somebody's attention? Well, one way to get a college basketball player's attention is by taking away their NIL money, like Memphis Tigers head coach Penny Hardaway did with junior ...

More fast-food, convenience, and travel stop chains are rounding cash totals to the nearest nickel when pennies aren’t available Big retailers and grocers are doing it too, often rounding in the ...