New Year. New minimum wage hike to $8.44 an hour. How might an extra six cents improve the lives of workers and their children? When can social media be used to foment panic? We'll show you how a fracas in the food court went viral and then went out of control. Newark has seen the most significant drop in violent crime in nearly 50 years. Is wholesale restructuring of the police department enough to turn a town around? Amazon hit the billion mark in items shipped for the holidays -- lead by a Dot that runs all the smart stuff in your house, except your kids. And 240 years after Washington crossed the Delaware, a walk in his footsteps turns the battlefield into an historic field trip.

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