By Brendan Kirby Click here for updates on this story THEODORE, Alabama (WALA) — Mobile County largely escaped damage from storms that blew through on Wednesday, but that doesn’t mean everyone emerged unscathed. Just ask David Jacobs, whose car got stuck off of Old Pascagoula Road near Pecan Terrace. “You know, weather ain’t been too
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By Andrea Olson Click here for updates on this story ROSE, Idaho (eastidahonews.com) — An 85-year-old woman who shot and killed a man after he broke into her home in the middle of the night was threatened, hit, handcuffed to a chair and shot multiple times, according to newly released information. The home invasion happened
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Parrots are smart, with some species found to have the problem-solving skills of a young child. So if small kids can use technology in some capacity, why can’t parrots? Researchers aiming to answer why parrots should use technology for cognitive enrichment set out to answer just how tablets could be improved
Continue ReadingBy Meredith Bruckner Click here for updates on this story DEXTER, Michigan (WWJ) — A rare corpse flower is now in bloom in Dexter. The plant gets its name from its pungent smell of rotting flesh, but to its owners, it’s known as “Corpsy.” It has set the record for the tallest blooming corpse flower
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. producer prices rose in March from a year earlier at the fastest pace in nearly a year, offering more evidence that progress against inflation may have stalled this year and raising doubts about whether and when the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates. The
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and RAFAL NIEDZIELSKI Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Many kids in Poland are rejoicing over strict limits imposed by the government on the amount of homework. Teachers and parents aren’t so sure. The decree says teachers can’t give required homework to kids in the first to third grades. For grades four
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week as the labor market continues to thrive despite the Federal Reserve’s efforts to cool it. The Labor Department reported Thursday that filings for unemployment claims for the week ending April 6 fell by 11,000 to 211,000 from the
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story MIRAMAR, Florida (WSVN) — The husband of a 26-year-old woman who was left in a coma after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in Miramar is speaking out. According to Miramar Police, Onyxia Delinois was out for a run Saturday morning, heading eastbound along Miramar
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Lyft and Uber have reversed plans to leave Minneapolis on May 1 after a new minimum wage for rideshare drivers, originally set to go into effect that day, was delayed two months after the city council passed a measure Thursday to extend the deadline. The issue stems
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Archaeologists excavating new sites in Pompeii have uncovered a sumptuous banquet hall decorated with intricately frescoed mythological characters inspired by the Trojan War. The banquet hall was used for refined entertaining and features black walls, a technique that prevented the smoke from oil lamps to be seen. The hall was uncovered as
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WSVN) — A Pinecrest Police officer has been airlifted to the hospital after accidentally being shot in the arm during a training accident in South Miami-Dade, officials tell 7News. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and Miami-Dade Police Department responded to the Homestead Training Center near
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An academic probe says that Norway’s Health Minister Ingvild Kjerkol plagiarized parts of her masters’ degree thesis three years ago. It’s the second such case this year in the Norwegian government and the latest allegation of unethical behavior to rock the center-left government. The investigation by Nord University in Bodoe, northern
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — A key US inflation gauge increased last month at its fastest pace since April 2023, showing that underlying price pressures remain persistent. The Producer Price Index, a closely watched measure of inflation at the wholesale level, rose 2.1% for the 12 months ended in March, up from a 1.6%
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker, Isabel Rosales and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Derrick Dearman says he wants to live. The 35-year-old inmate on Alabama’s death row has spent almost six years fighting his sentence after being convicted of killing five people, including a woman who was pregnant. But now, he says he’s asked the state to
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — A worker on a dairy farm in Texas tested positive for the avian flu, only the second case of a person in the United States who has contracted the H5N1 influenza strain. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that the person was diagnosed with the H5N1 virus
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown and Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — The Transportation Security Administration reports that its officers intercepted 1,503 firearms in carry-on bags at security checkpoints in US airports during the first quarter of 2024. That number runs very close with TSA interceptions in the first quarter of 2023, in which 1,508 firearms were intercepted,
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Powerful storms are rumbling over parts of the southeastern U.S. as more severe weather takes aim at parts of the Ohio Valley. The storm system has already been blamed for at least one death in Mississippi and flooded streets in the New Orleans area. Damage has been reported from Texas to the
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press The cement industry is one of the largest emitters of carbon dioxide and is responsible for some 8% of global emissions each year. But demand for cement, an ingredient for concrete, keeps growing as the world constructs more buildings. Many in the industry are working on different ways to make
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — German police have offered a reward and asked possible witnesses to come forward with information regarding an arson attack on a synagogue in the northern city of Oldenburg last week. An unknown person threw an explosive device at the synagogue, causing minor damage. No events were taking place there at the time,
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Happy Thursday Central Oregon! Today is the last day of this dry pattern as the ridge of high pressure shifts to the east. Enjoy the sunny and mild conditions because precipitation is coming our way tomorrow. It will be chilly as you head out the door this morning. The roads are dry so travel conditions
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