AP Business Writer Smucker’s Uncrustables could soon hit $1 billion in annual sales. To keep up with demand for the frozen peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, J.M. Smucker Co. is opening a third Uncrustables plant in the U.S. next year. It almost didn’t happen. CEO Mark Smucker says Uncrustables lost money for more than a
Continue ReadingCUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple introduces the first dose of artificial intelligence into its new product lineup with a free software update.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In the last year, job scams have been on the rise, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit that helps consumers with identity compromises and crime. Job scams are a type of impersonation scam, which involves a person pretending to be a recruiter or a company in
Continue ReadingTEMPLE CITY, Calif. (AP) — Authorities detained a man they called a person of interest after three men were found dead and three others were hospitalized following a house fire near Los Angeles. The blaze was reported around 5 p.m. Sunday in Temple City, about 13 miles (20 kilometers) east of downtown LA, according to
Continue ReadingNICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say two people died when a powered parachute aircraft flipped while landing in Kentucky. The Jessamine County Sheriff’s office says the small aircraft crashed Sunday in Nicholasville. That’s south of Lexington. Sheriff Kevin Grimes says the man and woman aboard were both killed. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.
Continue ReadingDOVER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man has been indicted in a hit-and-run crash that killed the commander of the New Hampshire Air National Guard. Eighty-one-year-old Paul Clement of Rochester was indicted Oct. 17 on charges including negligent homicide. He is free on personal recognizance and faces arraignment Nov. 5. A phone message seeking
Continue ReadingCNN By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump repeated a series of false claims, many of which have long been debunked, about immigration and other subjects in his speech at a Sunday evening rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Here is a fact check of 16 false claims
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is again highlighting what a dysfunctional family the 27 nations of the European Union can be on the global stage. Orban, considered Russia’s closest partner within the EU, just happens to hold the bloc’s rotating presidency, and he has used the position in ways that
Continue ReadingTOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An extraordinarily rare dime whose whereabouts had remained a mystery since the late 1970s has sold for just over $500,000. The coin, which was struck by the U.S. Mint in San Francisco in 1975, depicts President Franklin D. Roosevelt and is one of just two known to exist without its distinctive
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — British far-right political activist Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months after he admitted to being in contempt of court by repeating false accusations about a Syrian refugee, according to court documents. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, admitted on Monday to breaching UK court rules
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Philadelphia’s district attorney asked a state judge on Monday to shut down tech billionaire Elon Musk’s controversial $1 million giveaway to registered voters, calling it an “illegal lottery scheme.” Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a Democrat, filed the civil lawsuit against Musk and his pro-Trump group, America PAC. “America
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to allow the state to remove roughly 1,600 voters from its rolls that it believes are noncitizens. The appeal filed Monday comes after a federal appeals court has unanimously upheld a federal judge’s order restoring the registrations of roughly 1,600 voters
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Virginia Republican officials asked the US Supreme Court on Monday to allow the state to implement a program to remove suspected noncitizens from the voter rolls, in one of the first major voting cases to reach the high court ahead of next week’s presidential election. The appeal has political
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — A knife attack near a school in China’s capital has injured five people, including three children. Police say the attack occurred Monday in northwestern Beijing. None of the injuries was life threatening. Police say a 50-year-old suspect surnamed Tang was detained at the scene and is under investigation. The location of the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese’s long-reigning coalition lost a majority in the parliamentary election, underscoring voters’ outrage over the party’s extensive financial scandals. It’s largely a reflection of voters’ anger at the repeated financial scandals that have hit the Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan nearly without interruption since 1955. Prime Minister Shigeru
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A Wind Advisory will be in effect from 11 a.m. today through tomorrow at 9 a.m. and the First Alert Weather Team has issued a First Alert Weather Alert from this morning until 1 p.m. tomorrow. Winds could reach 45 to 50 m.p.h. In addition to the Wind Advisory, there is a Windblown Dust Advisory
Continue ReadingParties loyal to Uzbekistan’s president have swept parliament seats in an election devoid of any real opposition in the tightly-controlled Central Asian country. All candidates running in Sunday’s vote have been nominated by the country’s five registered parties. There are some differences in focus among the parties, some of which stress issues such as the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on his five-acre farm — and how bad it was for the planet. Earlier this month, Ford installed
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Jeremy Ford hates wasting water. As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on his five-acre farm — and how bad it was for the planet. Earlier this month, Ford installed
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators from multiple federal agencies launched an “interagency operation” on Monday at the troubled New York City jail where Sean “Diddy” Combs is being held. The investigators from the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office and other law enforcement agencies descended on the Metropolitan Detention Center
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