Last year, people were stockpiling food and essentials at stores and ordering a lot more groceries online. That was great news for America’s biggest grocery chains. Now companies say the pandemic-time boom is over. Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in this country, said Thursday that it expects comparable sales, or sales at stores open for
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — Businesses in the hospitality industry in Luzerne County will be able to get some much-needed cash. Luzerne County, CAN DO, and the Greater Wyoming Valley Chamber announced the COVID-19 Hospitality Industry Recovery Program (CHIRP) on Thursday. The program will distribute a total of $3.5
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LANCASTER COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WPMT ) — A Lancaster County restaurant is temporarily closed after a car crashed into it Thursday morning, according to East Hempfield Township Police. The Bob Evans restaurant on Hempland Road was struck by a vehicle around 8:54 a.m., police say. A preliminary investigation determined
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — The city council on Wednesday voted to remove the prohibition on marijuana dispensary drive-thrus in Las Vegas. It was a 6-0 vote on the bill sponsored by Councilwoman Michele Fiore of Ward 6. The move is similar to that made by the Clark County
Continue ReadingMichael B. Jordan is coming for the Russians. The trailer for Amazon’s “Without Remorse” has dropped and it features Jordan as a top-secret agent bent on revenge after a Russian assassination squad kills his family. The “Black Panther” star plays Sr. Chief John Kelly in the Amazon Prime film based on the Tom Clancy novel
Continue ReadingThere’s something unusual about Amazon‘s first physical store outside the United States: No waiting to pay. The e-commerce giant opened a convenience grocery store in London on Thursday that offers “just walk out” shopping — meaning customers don’t scan items or pay for them in store. Instead, customers scan a QR code using the Amazon
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SCOTT COUNTY, Iowa (Quad-City Times ) — A Scott County supervisor has hired the same election attorney defending Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in the contested election outcome in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District to keep his dual roles on the Scott County Board and North Scott school
Continue ReadingOh, the places Dr. Seuss books will go after they ignite controversy. This week, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that six books penned by the children’s author will no longer be published because of the “hurtful and wrong” ways characters of color are portrayed. Now, Dr. Seuss books have soared to the top of Amazon’s bestseller
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ROCK ISLAND, Illinois (Quad-City Times ) — Agents with the Quad-City Metropolitan Enforcement Group (QCMEG) arrested three people from a Rock Island home on methamphetamine and marijuana trafficking charges. Brian R. White, 50, of 1206 14th St., is charged with two counts of delivery of more than 5
Continue ReadingThe UN’s high commissioner for human rights has called for an independent investigation into human rights violations that may amount to war crimes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, days after CNN published an exclusive report about a massacre in a village there. On Thursday, Michelle Bachelet said there was a need for an “independent, objective assessment”
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Just days after new safety efforts were launched in San Francisco’s Chinatown, video is surfacing of a shocking attack targeting an older man in a laundromat on the Nob Hill/Chinatown border. Surveillance video shows the terrifying moments a 67-year-old customer is attacked by three
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (WFSB) — New Haven police are investigating after a bullet struck a school window this morning. It happened just after 8 a.m. on Thursday at the Achievement First Amistad High School on Dixwell Avenue. The school went into lockdown mode, but it has since been
Continue ReadingThe Supreme Court ruled against an undocumented immigrant on Thursday who has been living in the United States for more than 25 years but faces deportation because of a misdemeanor conviction in state court. In a 5-3 opinion, penned by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court held that Clemente Pereida, who was born and raised in
Continue ReadingThe ills of excessive screen time have been well-documented, but a recent study just identified another possible risk. Children between the ages of 9 and 11 in the US who have more screen time are more likely to develop binge eating disorder (BED) one year later, the study found — and social media is a
Continue ReadingThe Democratic-led House on Wednesday approved HR 1, a sweeping government, ethics and election bill that, among other things, would counter state-level Republican efforts to restrict voting access. Democrats describe the package as anti-corruption legislation that would expand voting access and improve accountability and transparency in Washington. Republicans, however, argue that the legislation limits political
Continue ReadingArriving late to the streaming wars is apparently better than never getting involved in them at all. That’s what investors seem to think, at least. Just look at the huge stock gains for ViacomCBS and Discovery so far in 2021. The Paramount+ streaming network finally launched Thursday after a lot of fanfare, including investors sending
Continue ReadingThis year’s SAG Awards will be very different from past shows. Speaking to Variety, Todd Milliner, Sean Hayes and Kathy Connell, the show’s executive producers, said that the upcoming awards show will be pretaped and only an hour long. “We’re looking at trying to do a unique award ceremony in an hour and leave people
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About 150 medical technologists and therapists walked off the job and went on strike Thursday morning after more than a year of on-and-off negotiations failed to achieve an initial contract for the newly unionized workers.
Continue ReadingThe Senate is negotiating how much to adjust the Democrats’ massive coronavirus relief package that passed the House last week. While the final Senate bill has not been released yet, lawmakers are expected to make two major changes — narrowing eligibility for the stimulus checks and nixing an increase in the federal minimum wage to
Continue ReadingFederal law enforcement is on high alert Thursday in the wake of an intelligence bulletin issued earlier this week about a group of violent militia extremists having discussed plans to take control of the US Capitol and remove Democratic lawmakers on or around March 4 — a date when some conspiracy theorists believe former President
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