May 13—Disaster Survivor Assistance (DSA) teams from FEMA will be available this week to assist in communities affected by the March 14 tornadoes. Teams will help residents navigate the federal assistance process, which includes the DSA that will begin in areas of Logan County and may move to the other impacted counties in the weeks […]
People in southern Brazil, already reeling from deadly floods, are bracing for more disruption as meteorologists warned of 12 straight hours of heavy rain Friday and more throughout the weekend. The death toll in the floods that have ravaged parts of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has inched up to 113, the […]
What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? In 2021, we saw a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that contributed to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze. X While there are some new factors […]
(Getty Images) LINCOLN — Roughly 7,000 Nebraskans today can directly benefit from a newly passed state law that eliminates a two-year waiting period and immediately restores voting rights to felons upon completion of their sentence, advocates of the law said Friday. Members of a coalition that has fought years for the legal change now are […]
BALTIMORE — Returning to Annapolis after lobbying members of Congress for federal funding, Gov. Wes Moore signed legislation Tuesday to aid workers and businesses affected by the partial closure of the Port of Baltimore two weeks after a container ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, killing six people. “We have to understand what […]
Tracy Menhinick, a 52-year-old former auxiliary nurse, was found guilty on April 9 of “wilfully ill-treating” the boy to cause harm PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo Tracy Menhinick at the High Court Glasgow on March 19, 2024 A woman who gave a boy harmful laxatives has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Tracy Menhinick, a […]
Maressa Brown is a Los Angeles-based journalist and astrologer who has written astrology, pop culture and general lifestyle content for nearly two decades. Brown is a member of the International Society for Astrological Research and is the author of Mercury Magic: How to Thrive During Retrogrades and Tap Into the Power of the Messenger Planet […]
A writer’s anxiety about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “very plainly” had an impact on his ex-partner, a family court judge has ruled. The man was a member of an organisation known as the “North Atlantic Fellas Organisation” (“NAFO”), Recorder Simon Rowbotham heard. He worked with “NAFO” to “combat online Russian propaganda”, a private family court […]
BALTIMORE — Nearly a week after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Dundalk business owners began grappling with the hit that the catastrophe may take on their businesses. “When the bridge went down, my business completely stopped,” said Ryan Roberson, 35, owner of Robee Trucking and Robee Logistics. “Nothing is coming in the […]
Teacher vacancies in South Carolina have nearly tripled since 2019, reaching a record 1,613 to begin the 2023-2024 school year, and the negative impacts on students, families and educators are growing. One such impact has been the loss of daily access to quality instruction for many students. Districts facing educator shortages have increasingly been forced […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The theft of sensitive information belonging to millions of AT&T’s current and former customers has been recently discovered online, the telecommunications giant said this weekend. In a Saturday announcement addressing the data breach, AT&T said that a dataset found on the “dark web” contains information including some Social Security numbers and […]
One in five children in Germany was affected by poverty in 2022, according to a report by the German welfare association Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband. At 21.8% of all children and young people, this was a “sad record,” Ulrich Schneider, managing director of the association, explained at the presentation of the poverty report in Berlin on Tuesday. […]