GRAND CHUTE, Wis. (WFRV) – It’s the Fox Valley event matching community members with their perfect volunteer opportunity. Volunteer Fox Cities hosted their first-ever spring VolunteerFEST at the D.J. Bordini Center in Grand Chute on Tuesday afternoon. Around 50 Fox Cities organizations in need of volunteers were in attendance. One of those organizations was the […]
(Reuters) – Alphabet announced its first-ever dividend of 20 cents per share on Thursday, returning capital when the Google parent is spending billions of dollars on data centers to catch up with rivals on generative artificial intelligence. Shares of the rose nearly 13% in trading after the bell. Alphabet also said it had authorized the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Of the 1.4 million adults who live in Manhattan, a dozen are soon to become the first Americans to sit in judgment of a former president charged with a crime. Jury selection is set to start Monday in ex-President Donald Trump‘s hush-money case — the first trial among four criminal prosecutions […]
Growing up with a deaf cousin, Utah high schooler Alex Antonio Hernandez Juarez saw the difficulties she had accomplishing everyday tasks in school and other places that weren’t always willing to accommodate her needs. Moved by his cousin’s plight, Juarez designed a tool to help the deaf community — a device that uses a camera […]
The Biden administration on Wednesday finalized strict limits on certain so-called “forever chemicals” in drinking water that will require utilities to reduce them to the lowest level they can be reliably measured. Officials say this will reduce exposure for 100 million people and help prevent thousands of illnesses, including cancers. The rule is the first […]
Mar. 30—With improvements to parks, roads ready for patching, and a new way to recognize those who do good, there are a lot of big things happening in the small town of Baileyton. For the first time, town leaders are kicking off what’s hoped to become an annual tradition, sounding a communitywide call for nominations […]
Fire-retardant kimonos, open-flame sandwich cookers, and titanium saké bottles — Snow Peak has built a reputation in the outdoors for making a mix of high-end, refined, and (at times) oddball gear. So it was doubly surprising to see the debut this week of the brand’s first capsule GORE-TEX collection. On one hand, you’d be hard-pressed […]
Europe is facing growing climate risks and is unprepared for them, the European Environment Agency said in its first-ever risk assessment for the bloc Monday. The agency said Europe is prone to more frequent and more punishing weather extremes — including increasing wildfires, drought, more unusual rainfall patterns and flooding — and it needs to […]
Mar. 9—In her years of training Navajo Nation educators, Jennifer Denetdale noticed a persistent problem. A Diné professor and chair of the University of New Mexico’s American Studies Department, Denetdale found there was “no such thing” as a textbook designed for Navajo Government courses. Though the course is widely taken by Diné students — it’s […]
Officers experience trauma on the job constantly. Now, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is creating its first-ever mental health seminar to help address this problem. >> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The lines were long and the weather was cold but that didn’t stop super fans from coming out to the first-ever NEPA Comic Con. They went, they saw, and they dressed up. Northeastern Pennsylvania got to nerd out at the inaugural lNEPA Comic Convention Saturday at the days in by […]
Feb. 15 (UPI) — A Michigan man won a $500,000 prize from the first lottery ticket he ever purchased. The Livingston County man told Michigan Lottery officials he was a complete lottery novice when he bought his Wild Side scratch-off ticket from the Fast Lane Convenience store on State Street in Saginaw. “I had never […]