A powerful hurricane rushed toward the Caribbean Islands Monday morning, bringing historically early season warnings of hundred mile per hour winds, dangerous storm surge, surf and heavy rainfall as local governments urged residents to hunker down and brace. As dawn broke, forecasters said Hurricane Beryl would pound St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada through […]
Trouble lies beneath the waterline at Beaufort’s breathtaking Waterfront Park between the Beaufort River and Bay Street, the city’s downtown hub. The park is visited by nearly a half million people a year and a key contributor to the area’s annual $140 million tourism economy. Severe deterioration of several of the hundreds of concrete piles […]
Newsroom employees of The Daily Herald in Everett, Wash. gathered June 18, 2024. Seven of those pictured received layoff notices the next day. (Courtesy photo) At 123 years old, The Daily Herald is tightly woven into the fabric of Snohomish County, its reporters and readers knitted together through generations. There’ve been presidential visits, political scandals, […]
A date for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress remains uncertain after one date initially floated was ruled out because it fell on a Jewish holiday. A US congressional leadership aide initially said Monday that Netanyahu was scheduled to speak on June 13, which falls on Shavuot. It also coincides with President Joe […]
Kayla Bouwens was excited to talk to Walter Fuller just before she and husband Kevin Bouwens left Ormond Beach at the end of a recent weekday. “There’s a lot of baby bunnies running around,” she told Fuller, who has volunteered for almost 30 years at the 2-mile beach in Oxnard that stretches between Port Hueneme […]
Rafael Adriano Peres could hardly move as he lay on a mattress in a refuge center in Porto Alegre, after being hit by a car when historic floods swept southern Brazil this month. The 35-year-old suffered two broken ribs but couldn’t return home from hospital as water had filled the property he shares with his […]
Covid-19 levels are about the lowest they’ve ever been in the United States, but another new crop of virus variants once again threatens to disrupt the downward trend as the country heads into summer. KP.2 — one of the so-called FLiRT variants — has overtaken JN.1 to become the dominant coronavirus variant in the United […]
‘Should I Buy All My Kids A House?’ Widow Uncertain After Husband’s Death, Asks Dave Ramsey About Purchasing Homes For Her 3 Adult Children During a discussion on the Dave Ramsey Show, titled “Should I Buy All My Kids A House?” a widow from Denver, Colorado, named Kay, shared her intentions to buy homes for […]
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson wakes up on Thursday having survived an attempt to push him out, but he still faces an uncertain future as leader of a Republican caucus locked in civil war. Johnson was a little-known member of the House of Representatives until October, when […]
After weeks of negotiations, Skydance’s proposed merger with Paramount Global appears to be on the ropes. Paramount’s special board committee appears to have cooled on the offer, which would have seen the David Ellison-led studio, joined by financial partners RedBird Capital and KKR, acquire controlling shareholder Shari Redstone’s stake in the company and then merge […]
Apr. 18—From nearly anywhere in Spokane, the towering campus of Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center is visible. But the home of a stubborn woman that sits in the heart of the buildings is hidden in their shadows. The property is known as Mary’s Place, named after Mary Gianetsas, who staunchly refused offers from Providence to […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee residents convicted of felonies can apply to vote again without restoring their gun rights under a bipartisan bill that faces some GOP skepticism as it advances late this session. The effort by Democratic Rep. Antonio Parkinson and Republican Sen. Paul Bailey to untangle the two rights has cleared early hurdles […]