May 28—Local schools are considering changes they may need to make on cell phone policies after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill that includes language that would require all school districts in the state to have a policy around personal device use. School districts have until July 2025 to be fully in compliant with […]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — “Son of Sam” killer David Berkowitz, who set New York City on edge with late-night shootings in the 1970s, was denied parole after his twelfth board appearance. Berkowitz, 70, was rejected after a Board of Parole prison interview on May 14, according to information listed on a state Department of Corrections […]
Someone at Rivian Forums secured a portion of Rivian’s application to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its 2025 model range. The document covers new features headed to the R1T pickup and R1S SUV, some of which deliver on tech Rivian CEO R. J. Scaringe spoke of a couple of years ago. One such change […]
A clerk at a Mount Clemens convenience store recently brought a Macomb County man to tears. On May 7, a 34-year-old man purchased a Jumbo Jackpot Slots Fast Cash ticket at Cass Market and Liquor located at 278 Cass Ave., according to the Michigan Lottery. When he scanned the ticket’s barcode on the lottery scanner, […]
We’ve been hearing rumors for months about how iOS 18 will be a major upgrade – perhaps one of the biggest in its history – and a new report adds some more details about what we should expect when the software is officially unveiled next month. These details come courtesy of Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, usually […]
Donald Trump has sold off one of his private jets to a Republican megadonor as he owes more than half a billion dollars in legal judgements and fees. Federal Aviation Administration records show that the registration of the plane, a 1997 Cessna jet, was transferred from the Trump Organization’s DT Air Corp to a Texas […]
Donald Trump returns today to a Manhattan courtroom where his attorneys are set to conclude their defense in the ex-president’s election interference trial. Trump did not testify in his own defense. As leading historian Heather Cox Richardson notes in her newsletter: “Trump’s refusal to take the stand encapsulates the MAGA approach to politics. Since the 2020 […]
The mayor of Europe’s swinging capital is being held by police over accusations he spent taxpayers’ money on a “ventriloquist” fortune teller who “bewitched” him into thinking she had contacted his dead father. The French Mediterranean town of Agde is notorious for its wild sex parties, which every year attract tens of thousands of partner-swapping […]
Andrew Halter delivers water 1,200 miles by rail to the Navajo Nation from Mississippi. Navajo Nation residents struggle with water scarcity, with 30% lacking reliable drinking water. Halter hopes water-by-rail can be a solution for other Western communities and in natural disasters. Andrew Halter had been in the railroad business for 25 years, mostly in […]
(Bloomberg) — After an underwhelming start to the year for US electric-vehicle sales, it might seem easy to conclude that the boom times are over. Sales were flat in the first quarter, Ford dramatically scaled back expansion plans and Tesla laid off 10% of its global workforce. But these dismal indicators only tell part of […]
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and France’s President Emmanuel Macron warned in a joint opinion piece for the Financial Times that the European Union had to make dramatic efforts to improve its competitiveness or risk seeing its way of living undermined. Among the reforms needed were further efforts to decarbonize the economy, while […]
A family was removed from a flight over their daughter’s peanut allergy. Cabin crew refused to ask other passengers not to eat nuts, so the family made their own announcement. Airlines refusing to make nut allergy announcements is a common problem that frustrates many. A family was kicked off a flight for orchestrating an announcement […]