May 15—HENDERSON — It’s officially budget season at the city. Finance Director Tony Fuqua presented the proposed budget at the City Council meeting on Monday. Regional water rates are likely to increase in Henderson, Oxford and Warren County in order to pay off the debt the latter owes on the Kerr Lake Regional Water System […]
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s defense chief Friday called for the bolstering of its anti-drone capability after a drone footage posted on Chinese social media showed a Japanese aircraft carrier docked at a restricted navy port west of Tokyo. Defense Minister Minoru Kihara called it a serious security threat. Kihara’s acknowledgement of the vulnerability comes more […]
Apple’s M4 processors have become convincing leaders in the Geekbench single-core leaderboard. Several scores of roughly 3,800 points have appeared in the Geekbench online database over recent hours. This is significant as single-core benchmark scores of this magnitude put clear blue water between the M4 and Intel’s flagship Core i9-14900KS. A little Geekbench database checking […]
Dan Purcell, the founder and CEO of Ceartas, recalls feeling devastated when he realized that a former partner had, unbeknownst to him, uploaded private, intimate videos of them onto a porn site. Over a call, Purcell told me, “I was dating a girl who was in the tech industry, and she asked me if I […]
Gamaly Hollis has been given a reprieve from prosecutors’ request to send her back to jail for posting news articles about the police officer who shot and killed her mentally ill son feet from where she stood in her Kendale Lakes apartment. But the measure of Hollis’ freedom remains to be decided by a Miami-Dade […]
The mother of one of the Nottingham attack victims has written an open letter to members of a police WhatsApp group in which a message was posted describing her son as being “properly butchered”. Emma Webber, the mother of Barnaby Webber (19), who with Grace O’Malley-Kumar (19) and school caretaker Ian Coates (65) was stabbed […]
April is flying by, and there have already been too many amazing viral jokes on Twitter that you’ve probably missed. Here are some of the best tweets from this month so far: And follow the accounts that made you laugh so your Twitter timeline will be even better! 1. be thinking i look mysterious af […]
Work is underway on a new milk products facility in Webster that will be the largest daily plant in the Northeast, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul, who participated in a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday. The Fairlife facility is expected to be operational by the end of 2025 and employ about 250 people, according to a statement […]
On April 11, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock popped 4.3% in a single session, the largest jump in nearly a year. However, the stock gave back some of those gains in the following sessions due to a broader market pullback and reports of lower iPhone shipments. Here’s a breakdown of what’s moving Apple stock, where the […]
A Trump-supporting former star of the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” was cited in court documents in her stepson’s arrest in connection with his alleged participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Sigalit “Siggy” Flicker’s stepson, Tyler Campanella, was arrested on Wednesday and faces five misdemeanor charges, NBC News reported. Flicker herself […]
While Treasurer Curtis Loftis avoids a recommendation to be removed from office, behind the scenes, the embattled statewide elected official had to be stopped from publishing potentially compromising financial information. On April 4, Loftis was planning to publish a 600-page report that included a list of state agency funds, their cash balances, along with account […]
Stormy Daniels just got into a heated online exchange with MAGA fans over her hush money scandal involving former president Donald Trump. The fight between Daniels and MAGA supporters stems from a Truth Social post made by Trump about a letter signed by the former adult film entertainer denying ever having an affair with him. […]