Dec. 25—ROCHESTER — Entrepreneurs talk about long hours, staffing woes, building problems, supply chain issues and many more daily difficulties. Unfortunately, many businesses find the negatives eventually outweigh the positives and they end up closing. About one in five U.S. businesses fail within their first year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The […]
Shoppers will not be able to finish Christmas shopping Sunday at the Paddock Mall in Ocala. The mall announced it would be closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. This comes after police say 40-year-old David Nathaniel Barron was shot and killed inside the mall Saturday. Police believe he was the target. A woman was […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Homeland Security Department took the temporary measure of closing the Texas-Mexico border crossing to “stop a large movement of migrants coming by rail and to protect the health and safety of its personnel,” the White House said on Wednesday. “We are working closely with the Mexican government in attempt to […]
Dec. 19—A sealed compartment with safety gloves attached caught fire at Los Alamos National Laboratory in November, resulting in officials shutting down a portion of the site’s plutonium facility for 10 days, according to the lab’s and government watchdogs’ reports. Employees were pulverizing 40-year-old legacy materials that were removed from the facility to create more […]
An Amazon semitrailer accident caused delays near I-84 on Monday morning, according to police. A semi rolled over on North Idaho Center Boulevard in Nampa, just north of Interstate 84, the Nampa Police Department said on social media. After its driver attempted to merge too quickly, the truck rolled over shortly before 9 a.m. and […]
The weekend’s weather brought tropical storm-like conditions to Southwest Florida, with high winds, continuous rain and over three feet of storm surge in some areas from Saturday overnight to Sunday. Most of the Bradenton area received at least two inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service of Tampa Bay. Locally, the highest amounts […]
The Cincinnati Fire Department is finishing putting out a truck fire on Interstate 75 northbound near Mitchell Avenue. The three right northbound lanes on I-75 are closed beyond Mitchell Avenue due to the fire, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation. The Ohio Department of Transportation advises drivers to use alternate routes and check the […]
The Interstate 10 remains closed at milepost 69 after a deadly crash early Sunday morning. The accident happened just after 4:30 a.m. on the I-10 eastbound west of Tonopah, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Three people were pronounced dead at the spot of the crash and three others with injuries were airlifted […]
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation says part of the eastbound Parkway is closed because of a crash. PennDOT says the Parkway East is closed between the Squirrel Hill Tunnel and the Edgewood/Swissvale exit (Exit 77). An Allegheny County 911 official said the crash was reported around 12:20 p.m. At this point, the official says no […]
Russia hopes to resume flights from Krasnodar. On 15 December, the local airport, closed on 24 February 2022, received the first civilian flight since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine – so far, a technical one. Source: Russian agency Interfax; Crimea.Reality Quote from Dmitrii Kirichenko, managing director of Krasnodar airport: “Today, the airport […]