By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co.’s top quality executive is retiring as the company continues to struggle with high warranty claims and reliability issues. Stuart Rowley, chief transformation and quality officer, is leaving after 33 years with the company. The company said Wednesday that he’ll be replaced by Jim
Continue ReadingGOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… The current system is not quite done with us, so plan on staying cold with a good chance of more snow today. Highs will only reach the mid 30’s to low 40’s and SW breezes will stay pretty gentle at 5-10 mph. There will be a diminishing chance of snow through
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Agriculture Department has announced more than $223 million in grants and loans to help small- and mid-sized meat processing plants expand. It’s part of a larger $1 billion effort to boost competition in the highly concentrated industry. The effort is expected to increase cattle
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN Georgia’s top election official on Wednesday dismissed Stacey Abrams’ concerns over election accessibility there, blasting the state’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate’s criticism of new voting rules as “silly.” “Her argument — it’s silly. It doesn’t make sense. It’s not logical. You’re having record turnout,” Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told CNN’s
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SCHUMAN Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The results from the 2022 election will be rolling in next Tuesday night, but as we look forward to casting our ballots, WCCO is looking back more than 100 years to when Minnesota made history after the 19th Amendment gave women the
Continue ReadingGEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Officials in Guyana say a New York City police officer vacationing in the South American nation drowned in fast-flowing waters in a jungle and mountain region near the border with Brazil. Police say 43-year-old Gladstone Hayne and the mother of his children were swimming at the Orinduik Falls in the heavily
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Warning that democracy itself is in peril, President Joe Biden called on Americans Wednesday night to use their ballots in next week’s midterm elections to stand up against lies, violence and dangerous “ultra MAGA” election disruptors who are trying to “succeed where they failed”
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s foreign minister has urged world leaders and negotiators to deliver on previously made pledges to battle climate change ahead of this month’s U.N. summit. Sameh Shoukry is president of the COP27 climate change conference to be held in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh on
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologist As the climate crisis accelerates, Europe is warming faster than any other region, according to a new State of the Climate in Europe report from the World Meteorological Organization. The WMO report comes ahead of the UN’s international climate summit in Egypt, and is one in a series of reports
Continue ReadingBy Kylie Atwood and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN The US is accusing North Korea of secretly supplying Russia with artillery shells for the Ukraine war by concealing where they are being transported to, according to newly declassified intelligence. US officials believe that the surreptitious North Korean shipments — along with drones and other weaponry that
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has accused North Korea of covertly shipping a “significant number” of artillery shells to Russia in support of its invasion of Ukraine. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday the U.S. believes North Korea is “trying to make it appear
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The German government says that it plans to make plastic manufacturers contribute to the cost of cleaning up litter in streets and parks. The Cabinet on Wednesday agreed on a bill that makers of products containing single-use plastic will need to pay into a central fund managed by the government starting in
Continue ReadingBy KERRI CORRADO Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — Sister Linda grew up in South Philadelphia within walking distance of the sports complex. Her passion for the game and humor are one of a kind. Prayers for the Phillies from Neumann University. “I do believe the baseball gods are in our
Continue ReadingBy Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Iranian police said they would investigate an incident caught on camera showing security forces attacking and shooting a man, as a leading rights group condemned what it called the “crisis of impunity” in the country. The video shows a number of security officers beating a man who lay on the ground
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Anna Chernova, CNN Video has emerged purporting to show a man preparing and planting explosives on a Russian military helicopter at an airbase deep inside Russia. Subsequent satellite imagery shows several damaged helicopters at the base in Pskov region in northern Russia. The base is about 35 kilometers from
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — A man was arrested after he’s accused of intentionally ramming his SUV into a home, endangering the seven people inside. The Orange Co. Sheriff’s Office said Nisan Ortega, 47, showed up at his ex-wife’s home in Apopka on Monday around 2
Continue ReadingCNN By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman, Rachel Clarke and Ray Sanchez, CNN On the day of the Uvalde massacre, fourth graders Khloie Torres and Miah Cerrillo, surrounded by the bodies of classmates and their teacher at Robb Elementary School, whispered but managed to speak clearly and politely to a 911 operator. “Please hurry,” Khloie,
Continue ReadingCNN By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN David DePape, the man accused of violently attacking Paul Pelosi last week, was in the United States illegally and may face deportation, the Department of Homeland Security said late Wednesday. “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an immigration detainer on Canadian national David DePape with San Francisco County Jail,
Continue ReadingNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Democratic state senator from Tennessee who is running to represent the Nashville area in Congress says her husband has stage 4 cancer. Heidi Campbell tweeted Wednesday that her husband, Andrew, received the diagnosis “out of nowhere” last week. Heidi Campbell said her husband was set to undergo surgery on Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy Donie O’Sullivan and Geneva Sands, CNN When armed, masked men and people with long telescopic camera lenses showed up at ballot drop boxes last month in Arizona to stalk voters, many public officials were appalled. Voter intimidation complaints were filed and sent to the Department of Justice. But on the pro-Trump internet, plans for
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