A Southern slider brand is making a move into North Carolina, aiming to bring big flavors in small burgers. The Atlanta-based Smalls Sliders announced this week that it will bring nine locations to North Carolina, singling out Raleigh as one of the first markets. Smalls was founded in Louisiana and is now owned by Atlanta […]
Preparing for thunderstorms, tornadoes and other severe weather is critical as climate changes lead to more severe weather, experts say. (Getty Images) Severe storms sweeping across the U.S. have brought large hail, high-speed winds, flooding and deadly tornadoes this spring. Weather — from heat to cold to tornadoes and rip currents — was also responsible […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 24 worshippers, including four children, were injured in northern Nigeria’s Kano state after a man attacked the mosque where they were praying early Wednesday morning, resulting in an explosion, the police said. The suspect, a 38-year-old resident of the area, confessed that he attacked the mosque in Kano’s remote […]
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a decree appointing a new government, including replacement of the defense minister with a former deputy prime minister who is an economics expert with no military background. When Putin was inaugurated for a new six-year term on May 7, the government submitted its resignation in […]
Many Red Lobster locations throughout the country are now closed, including a handful in Texas. National media reports nearly 50 restaurants were shuttered on Monday. What does this mean for the popular restaurant chain and its Texas locations? Here’s what we know. Is Red Lobster going out of business? Red Lobster, the once popular seafood […]
An Albany police car was headed to a burglary call when Georgia State Patrol troopers say it slammed into a school bus, which then hit a person standing on the side of the road. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] The crash happened Friday around 11:10 a.m. Troopers said the school […]
A new Goodwill Keystone Area partnership will provide free electronic waste recycling for residents in 22 central and southeastern counties, including Lebanon. The organization is teaming up with Reworld, based in Morristown, New Jersey, to allow residents to donate their old technology at 42 Goodwill Stores across various counties. This will include Goodwill locations in Lebanon […]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Ten cities in Mexico registered record-high temperatures in 10 cities, including the capital, authorities said on Friday, amid a searing heat wave that has prompted blackouts nationwide and pushed the power grid to the brink. In the normally temperate high-altitude capital of Mexico City, North America’s largest metropolis, thermometers on Thursday […]
After a rocky month of April, investor sentiment has improved somewhat. At least in part, this can be attributed to a better-than-expected earnings season. So far, about 80% of the S&P 500-listed companies have reported their Q1 results, and 77% of those have shown a quarterly EPS above the forecasts. Overall, the earnings reported are […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Israel-Hamas war demonstrations at the University of Mississippi turned ugly this week when one counter-protester appeared to make monkey noises and gestures at a Black student in a raucous gathering that was endorsed by a far-right congressman from Georgia. “Ole Miss taking care of business,” Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins wrote […]
Five people have been arrested for sex crimes against children, including a Duval County Public Schools employee after an undercover operation from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Kevin Pearce, Norman Kimmerly, Thomas Gainey, Michael Hill, and Glenroy Hazel are all facing child solicitation charges and charges of “traveling to meet after using a computer to seduce/solicit/lure […]
The Biden administration is erasing $6.1 billion in federal student debt for 317,000 former attendees of The Art Institutes, a defunct for-profit chain of art colleges, officials announced Wednesday. Many Art Institute schools have shuttered nationwide, including two in North Carolina that closed at the end of 2018: The Art Institute of Charlotte, and The […]