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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees to Disney World’s governing board have launched a fresh salvo in the fight to control the resort, seeking to expand their authority after their Disney-controlled predecessors abdicated most powers to the company. Supervisors of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District are floating a resolution saying
Continue ReadingBy Bridger Beal-Cvetko and Carter Williams Click here for updates on this story KAYSVILLE , Utah (KSL) — Twenty homes have been evacuated as a precaution as spring runoff flooded and damaged a road in a Kaysville neighborhood Wednesday morning. Kaysville Fire Chief Paul Erickson said crews responded to the Orchard Ridge neighborhood and began
Continue ReadingBy Gail Paschall-Brown Click here for updates on this story ORANGE COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — It was a packed house inside Tuesday night’s Orange County school board meeting as students, former students, parents and groups spoke out primarily about the cancellation of Drag and Donuts last month at Boone High. The event was canceled after
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We’re looking at hiker safety here in the valley after someone died on a trail in Palm Springs, and authorities responded to three rescue calls Tuesday. Nathan Gunkel with Palm Springs Fire Department said they’re already seeing an increase in hiker rescues. “We’re not even at the peak of our season, and people just already are
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Mena and Nicole Goodkind, CNN The fallout from the recent banking crisis is likely to push the US economy into a mild recession later this year, according to notes from the Federal Reserve’s March policy meeting, released on Wednesday. Since November 2022, staff economists at the Federal Reserve have predicted subdued growth and
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By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An advocacy group for prisoners’ rights has filed a civil rights lawsuit against corrections officers who allegedly ignored requirements that they videotape a prison-cell encounter with an inmate, who says he was sexually abused, beaten without provocation and taunted with words that evoked the 2020
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Turmoil in the banking system after two major banks collapsed led many Federal Reserve officials to envision fewer rate increases this year out of concern that banks will reduce their lending and weaken the economy. The uncertainty stemming from the banking sector also helped Fed officials
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jim Harrick Jr., who played at Pepperdine and worked as an assistant basketball coach at Georgia and several other schools, has died. He was 58. Harrick Jr. died Tuesday at his home in San Marcos after battling a glioblastoma brain tumor for 2 1/2 years, according to UCLA. The school, where
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The US government is planning to change auto emissions standards in a way that means automakers would need to sell a lot more electric vehicles. By 2032, electric vehicles would need to make up about two-thirds of all the new cars sold in America. Without these requirements, electric vehicles would
Continue ReadingCNN By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The US government is planning to change auto emissions standards in a way that means automakers would need to sell a lot more electric vehicles. By 2032, electric vehicles would need to make up about two-thirds of all the new cars sold in America. Without these requirements, electric vehicles
Continue Reading BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Environmental authorities in Colombia say a hippopotamus descended from animals illegally brought to Colombia by the late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar has died in a collision with an SUV near Escobar’s hacienda. The hippos, which spread from the estate into nearby rivers and now number more than 100, have no natural
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Grocery prices finally dipped in March, falling for the first time since September 2020, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of six major grocery food group indexes, three fell from February to March. The meats, poultry, fish and eggs index fell 1.4%, pulled down by another
Continue ReadingBy Alayna Treene, Sara Murray, Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday subpoenaed Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan as part of his panel’s investigation into the agency’s probe of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. The House subcommittee investigating the so-called weaponization of the federal government has made Twitter
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN If you’re cool, you’ll donate blood. That’s the message being sent in the latest American Red Cross partnership with “Peanuts.” Everyone who donates blood by April 23 will receive a T-shirt while supplies last, featuring Snoopy as his alter ego, Joe Cool, in front of the Red Cross logo with the
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities have decided to move the key suspect at the heart of the corruption scandal rocking the European Union’s assembly from jail and place her under house arrest. The federal prosecutor’s office says that former parliament vice president Eva Kaili would remain under electronic surveillance while the investigation into the money-for-political
Continue Reading By MATTHEW DALY and TOM KRISHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing strict new automobile pollution limits that would require up to two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2032. That’s a nearly tenfold increase over current electric vehicle sales. The proposed regulation was announced Wednesday
Continue Reading By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has returned to the New York prison system after spending nearly two years in California, where he was tried and convicted of raping an Italian actor and model. Weinstein, whose December 2022 conviction in Los Angeles followed his February 2020 New
Continue Reading By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has returned to the New York prison system after spending nearly two years in California, where he was tried and convicted of raping an Italian actor and model. Weinstein, whose December 2022 conviction in Los Angeles followed his February 2020 New
Continue ReadingBy Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN The search for New York City’s first-ever “rat czar” has come to an end. Kathleen Corradi has been hired as the city’s director of rodent mitigation, Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday. Corradi will coordinate city agencies such as the Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene, Parks and Recreation, and Sanitation and
Continue ReadingBy Christie Ileto Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — This week, the School District of Philadelphia hit a grim milestone. District officials confirmed 100 students have been shot, with 20 of them killed since the school year began. For a lot of city kids, getting to and from school safely is
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