Jan. 9—HIGH POINT — For Otis Battles, the reality of owning a restaurant in High Point’s new food hall didn’t live up to the hype. After eight months as one of the vendors at Stock and Grain Assembly, Battles said he closed Miss Johnnie Mae’s Kitchen in December because the volume of daily foot traffic […]
ST. LOUIS – Last week, St. Louis officials released data they say shows a significant drop in several crimes in the city. That includes a huge drop in homicides in 2023 compared to 2022. Appearing at Monday’s public safety town hall, St. Louis Police Chief Robert Tracy spent part of the evening answering questions from […]
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis was once thought to be the person who could take the GOP nomination from Donald Trump, but as of late the Florida governor is struggling to keep hold of second place. DeSantis has been eclipsed in some surveys by former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who has turned the heads […]
With just 11 days to go before the Iowa caucuses, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday during a CNN town hall event kept his attacks — and his case for why he should be the party’s nominee — focused on frontrunner Donald Trump. He almost entirely ignored former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who took part in […]
Former President Donald Trump will participate in a Fox News town hall next week, the network announced Tuesday, skipping CNN’s GOP primary debate scheduled for the same time. The town hall will also take place at 9 p.m. on Jan. 10 in Des Moines, Iowa, and will be moderated by Fox anchors Bret Baier and […]
Jan. 1—St. Joseph’s City Hall is set to receive a $2.2 million upgrade. About 138 new windows and frames throughout the building will be replaced in 2024. Funding for the project comes from the 2019 Capital Improvement Program sales tax. “This will be the first time that we’ve changed the window frames,” said Abe Forney, […]
Hall County deputies are looking for suspects accused of stealing more than $7,000 in designer items from a hotel earlier this month. Deputies said it happened at the Holiday Inn Expres on Bristol Industrial Way in Buford early in the morning of Dec. 10. A hotel guest reported a number of items were stolen from […]
Dec. 30—Following on the heels of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into City Hall’s attempts to close The Well, the Rev. Leonard Small filed a federal lawsuit against the city. Small’s lawsuit alleges city officials are violating his religious freedom by forcing him to stop sheltering the homeless at a church in the Urbana […]
This week’s episode of Hard Knocks: In Season with the Miami Dolphins was filled with plenty of gift-giving and holiday cheer, but there was one moment in particular involving Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino and a famous product he once endorsed as a player that had the show trending on social media. The sixth […]
The Battle Creek City Clerk’s Office and Code/Inspections will be temporarily relocated for the foreseeable future as first-floor renovations begin inside City Hall Jan. 8. Through March, visitors will will find these services in the following, temporary locations: Clerk’s Office: City Hall second floor, Room 216. From the elevator or stairs in the center of […]
Every year between Christmas and New Year’s, Figma gives all employees two weeks’ vacation to enjoy the holidays. This year’s companywide PTO was looking even more wonderful as many of the software company’s employees hoped regulators would approve its $20 billion acquisition by creative giant Adobe. But on Monday, its U.S. employees awoke to Slack […]
Daryl Hall is a maneater. John Oates’s kiss is not on Daryl’s list. Hall & Oates are out of touch and out of time. And now they’ll be facing off, one on one, in court. Say it isn’t so! Because we can’t go for that (no can do). Yes, the Hall & Oates puns pretty […]