While Rochesterians were caught up in the understandable excitement of clear viewing of the Northern Lights beginning on May 10, it’s just the latest celestial happening of note in 2024. The solar eclipse, while disappointing due to local cloud cover, captured imaginations and whipped up a lot of local interest. And prior to Northern Lights […]
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — If you make less than $50,000 a year and live in one of five Hampton Roads cities, you could soon pay nothing each time you travel through either the Downtown or Midtown tunnels. Monday, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, (R-Va.) signed the state’s $279 billion two-year budget, which includes $101 million for toll […]
Jason Carter, former President Jimmy Carter’s grandson, gave an update on his grandfather’s health on Tuesday, saying that he’s “coming to the end.” “My grandfather is doing okay. He has been in hospice, as you know, for almost a year and a half now,” Jason Carter said at the 28th Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health […]
Jimmy Carter’s grandson said Tuesday that the former president is “coming to the end” in a brief update about the 39th president’s health. “(My grandfather) is doing OK,” Jason Carter said at a mental health forum named in honor of his grandmother, the late former first lady Rosalynn Carter, at the Carter Center. “He has […]
South Florida has been sizzling in the last few days, but the National Weather Service in Miami says it will feel hotter later this week, and warnings may be sent out. The heat index, which is what the temperature feels like to people when humidity is combined with air temperature, is expected to surpass 100 […]
May 13—MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake School District will start the next school year with about 100 fewer teachers, according to an MLSD press release. Non-renewal notices are expected to be issued to about 100 provisional teachers, according to the release. A provisional teacher is one who is either in their first three years […]
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange August 13, 2015.REUTERS/Brendan McDermid The S&P 500 could fall around 500 points in a swift correction, Stifel strategists warned. The investment firm said falling inflation was a “pipe dream,” and Fed rate cuts could be delayed. Markets see just one or two rate cuts […]
Lego is gearing up to deliver a detailed model of the original “rock and rolling ride,” the electric buggy driven by NASA’s last three Apollo crews to explore the moon. The new Lego Technic “NASA Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle – LRV” set will roll into Lego stores on Aug. 1. “Embark on a journey to […]
A Dallas-based developer wants to build apartments in far north Fort Worth. Direct Retail Partners is asking the city to rezone 20.4 acres at 311 E. Bonds Ranch Road to allow for up to 652 apartments, which could sit atop commercial space on the ground floor. These apartments would be in the interior of the […]
A Columbia Sportswear factory outlet store is coming to Pittsford Plaza. A Columbia Sportswear factory outlet store is coming to Pittsford Plaza, 3349 Monroe Ave. It will occupy a 5,562-square-foot space recently vacated by custom framing store The Great Frame Up, which moved to Clover Commons, 2900 Monroe Ave. Columbia Sportswear is shooting to open […]
Right-wing Israeli activists attempted to block the transport of aid via Jordan to the Gaza Strip by holding up trucks at the border between the West Bank and Israel on Monday, Israeli and Palestinian media reported. The Times of Israel reported that four activists of the Tzav 9 group, which opposes sending aid to the […]
The dangers posed by cyberattacks in Germany have continued to increase over the past year, according to a report by Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). “The police database, but also the findings of individual IT security service providers, show a renewed upward trend in cyberattacks in 2023, both in terms of quantity and quality,” […]