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By Ari Hait Click here for updates on this story WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (WPBF) — Cub Scout pack 141 in West Palm Beach spent more than 10 years working hard and raising funds to buy equipment for their camping trips. In one night, it was all stolen. West Palm Beach police are now searching
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By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A state judge says opponents of a $400 million grain terminal planned in a community between New Orleans and Baton Rouge may continue their zoning challenge. But state District Judge J. Sterling Snowdy refused to give the immediate ruling they wanted. Joy Banner is one of
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Mars has its own version of the Grand Canyon, and scientists have learned this dramatic feature is home to “significant amounts of water” after a discovery made by an orbiter circling the red planet, according to the European Space Agency. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, launched in 2016 as a joint
Continue Reading Associated Press Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Intel is expanding its manufacturing operation in Malaysia as chipmakers work to diversify global supply chains that were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. semiconductor company is no stranger to Malaysia, where it built its first offshore assembly plant in Penang in 1972. But
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Associated Press Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Intel is expanding its manufacturing operation in Malaysia as chipmakers work to diversify global supply chains that were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. semiconductor company is no stranger to Malaysia, where it built its first offshore assembly plant in Penang in 1972. But
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By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Amid fast-rising numbers of new COVID-19 infections, South African officials are urging people to get vaccinated before traveling for the holidays and attending festive gatherings. South Africa’s daily new confirmed cases climbed to more than 26,900 on Wednesday and 24,700 on Thursday, the highest yet in the
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LONDON (AP) — The number of postponements in the English Premier League has risen to five in a week after two more matches were called off. A growing number of infections at Leicester led to its game against Tottenham being postponed hours before kickoff on Thursday. An ongoing outbreak within Manchester United’s squad also means
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Democratic Rep. Alan Lowenthal of California announced Thursday that he will not seek reelection in 2022, joining a number of high-profile and long-serving lawmakers who plan to leave Capitol Hill after this term. “It is time to pass the baton,” Lowenthal, who has served nearly 10 years in Congress, said in
Continue Reading TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Over 1,500 applications have been filed for the 26 social equity dispensary licenses that Arizona’s public health agency plans to issue under the state’s voter-approved law legalizing recreational marijuana. The Department of Health Services is reviewing the applications and the department has said a random selection process to award the social
Continue Reading By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Attorneys for the former Oklahoma zookeeper known as “Tiger King” Joe Exotic say he is delaying cancer treatment until after his resentencing on convictions for a murder-for-hire plot and violating federal wildlife laws. Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, said last month he has
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Chronicling COVID for a second straight year, and this year’s vaccine saga, AP photographers found new ways of telling the story. They found striking images — like Amit Sharma’s image of a man running through funeral pyres of COVID-19 victims at a crematorium in India, as if fleeing death itself. Natacha
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El Departamento de Justicia informó a los abogados que representan a las familias migrantes separadas que cesará las negociaciones del acuerdo y está listo para volver a los tribunales, según un abogado que representa a las familias. La noticia llega después de que la Casa Blanca sufriera presiones políticas luego
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Después de un año de discursos torpes por Zoom en las galas de premios y sudaderas con estilo tie-dye, ha sido un alivio ver a las celebridades de vuelta en la alfombra roja. El glamour ha vuelto con fuerza, llenando nuestros feeds de color, brillo y destellos de nostalgia. Con novedades
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story PRINCETON, North Carolina (WRAL) — A 10-year-old boy was killed in a car crash in Princeton Monday. Family members told WRAL News the boy was Nolan Brown. He and his siblings were inside an SUV Monday when it collided with another car on Highway 70
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says that Palestinian militants opened fire near a Jewish settlement in the northern West Bank, killing at least one Israeli, according to the country’s defense minister. Defense Minister Benny Gantz expressed his condolences over the killing on Thursday night and said Israeli security forces “will get their hands on the terrorists.”
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business In early May of 2020, Jim Farley bought $1 million worth of Ford stock, 195,000 shares at a little over $5 a share. It was a surprising move for an executive who normally gets plenty of stock and stock options as part of his compensation to be buying some of
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — La final de Miss Mundo, que se realizaría este jueves en San Juan, Puerto Rico, fue pospuesta para “proteger la salud y la seguridad de las participantes, los trabajadores y el público en general”, anunció el organismo en un comunicado, luego de que se detectaran tres contagios en el
Continue Reading By PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson coach Dabo Swinney is confident he can handle change. He doesn’t have much choice after losing both his offensive and defensive coordinators along with his athletic director this month. Defensive coordinator Brent Venables became Oklahoma’s football coach while offensive leader Tony Elliott left to
Continue Reading SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico regulators have denied a request by the state’s largest electric provider to unload its shares in one of the Southwest’s few remaining coal-fired power plants by transferring them to a Navajo energy company. The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to reject the plan. Commissioners said
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN The US military has vaccinated more than 97% for its active-duty force against Covid-19 as the Army, which had the latest vaccination deadline amongst the services, released its latest numbers. Despite the phenomenal success the military has had in vaccinating the armed forces, approximately 35,000 troops remain unvaccinated. That number includes
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