TORGIANO, Italy (AP) — The Prada Group is expanding its production footprint in Italy, including dozens of new jobs at its knitwear factory in Umbria, leaning into “Made in Italy” as integral to the brand’s ethos and developing new artisanal talent to ease the luxury group through a generational shift in its workforce. Prada CEO […]
SALINA, Kan. (KSNW) — Salina is getting ready for the first stage of a $25,000,000 investment into housing. Salina city leaders say more people have been moving to town as area companies have grown. There have been expansions for companies in Salina, like Schwan’s and Great Plains Kubota, adding a strain on the housing options for […]
President Biden on Thursday will expand the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by nearly a third in an action that is being widely praised by the Indigenous leaders, politicians, conservationists and community organizers who had long fought for the enlargement of the protected natural area that serves as the backyard of the Los Angeles Basin. […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities have expanded an investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans to include senior church officials suspected of shielding predatory priests for decades and failing to report their crimes to law enforcement. Louisiana State Police carried out a sweeping search warrant last week at the […]
KITTERY, Maine — A 30-kilowatt solar array will be installed on Appledore Island to benefit a cabled acoustic array project conducted by the University of New Hampshire on the Isles of Shoals’ largest island. The Shoals Marine Laboratory, founded in 1966, was approved by the Kittery Planning Board last week to install a 2,500-square-foot extension […]
As of March 31, the most recent data available, the state had received 418 claims, many of them this year, according to the office administering the fund. (Annmarie Timmins | New Hampshire Bulletin) The state is responding on two fronts to the hundreds of claims of sexual and physical abuse from individuals held as children […]
Buc-ee’s looks like it’s opening a fourth Florida location, this one in St. Lucie County. Miami-Dade and Broward don’t have a Buc-ee’s yet, so the Fort Pierce site would be the closest to South Florida, after Daytona Beach, St. Augustine and Ocala. To find out what the big deal about the gas station superstore, we […]
NORMAN — With music from the movie “Top Gun” blaring and its president decked out in aviator sunglasses and an “OU Aviation” T-shirt, nine airplanes bought by the University of Oklahoma for its top-ranked School of Aviation flew into Max Westheimer Airport on Friday morning. The addition of the new Piper single-engine airplanes increases OU’s […]
KOHLER — The Blind Horse Restaurant & Winery, 6018 Superior Ave., is adding another location in Wisconsin as its winery commemorates 10 years. The second spot will be at W63N674 Washington Ave. in Cedarburg, a property the business purchased earlier this year. The building dates to the early 1840s and was recently occupied by a […]
Republicans in the Tennessee General Assembly have protected musicians from artificial intelligence. They’ve replaced the Tennessee State University board of directors. They’ve even prevented people from marrying their cousins and kept emotional support animals out of restaurants. They can’t get on the same page when it comes to creating more public education options for Tennessee […]
By Andrew Gray and Benoit Van Overstraeten BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union will prepare to expand its sanctions on Iran in response to Tehran’s attack on Israel, EU top diplomat Josep Borrell said on Tuesday after an emergency video conference of the bloc’s foreign ministers. Borrell cited U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in declaring that the […]
Apr. 14—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — A Johnstown-area couple’s environmentally conscious coffee bean business is growing locally and nationally. It all started with a trip to Walt Disney World in 2019, and a startling realization about the coffee industry’s impact on the rainforest, Stephen and Kelsey Koval said. Their Richland Township-based Tomorrow’s Coffee was created not only […]