Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON – Americans have a message for the penny: Good riddance. Around the country, people of all ages are expressing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Phrases such as penny for your thoughts or stop being a penny-pincher may have to change — pun intended. President Trump said ...

An attendee throws a penny into the casket at the "funeral for the penny," months after President Trump's administration ordered the Treasury Department to halt production of the coins, at the Lincoln ...

(CNN) — The US Treasury is phasing out production of the penny and will soon stop putting new one-cent coins into circulation, the department said in a statement Thursday. The news of the decision was ...

OLYPHANT — As the U.S. Mint prepares to produce the final pennies put into circulation early next year, the future of the copper-colored coin has sparked conversation among collectors and shop owners.

OK, pennies don’t fall from heaven. They are manufactured for 3.69 cents a piece. Who cares? At 3.69 cents to produce, a penny is cheap. The average penny in circulation lasts about 30 years. At 1/8 ...

WASHINGTON – Americans have a message for the penny: Good riddance. Around the country, people of all ages are expressing giddiness, relief ‒ as well as a bit of wistfulness ‒ over President Donald ...

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 ...