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Month: October 2024

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Dockworkers’ union suspends strike until Jan. 15 to allow time to negotiate new contract
Posted inBreaking News Business News Consumer News

Dockworkers’ union suspends strike until Jan. 15 to allow time to negotiate new contract

MIAMI (AP) — Some 45,000 dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports are returning to work after their union reached a deal to suspend a strike that could have caused shortages…
Posted by John McCarthy October 4, 2024
Hurricane Helene aftermath: More than 223 dead as hope fades in search for survivors
Posted inBreaking News Environmental News National News

Hurricane Helene aftermath: More than 223 dead as hope fades in search for survivors

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The weary and worn residents of Julianne Johnson’s neighborhood in Asheville have been getting by without electricity since Hurricane Helene tore through the Southeast last week and upended…
Posted by John McCarthy October 4, 2024
Twin babies who died alongside their mother in Georgia are youngest-known Hurricane Helene victims
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Twin babies who died alongside their mother in Georgia are youngest-known Hurricane Helene victims

ATLANTA (AP) — Obie Williams could hear babies crying and branches battering the windows when he answered his daughter’s daily phone call last week as Hurricane Helene tore through her rural Georgia…
Posted by John McCarthy October 4, 2024
National Hurricane Center tracking 3 systems in tropics
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Environmental News

National Hurricane Center tracking 3 systems in tropics

MIAMI — The National Hurricane Center is tracking three tropical disturbances, including two that could affect Florida over the weekend or early next week. Hurricane Kirk is a Category 4 hurricane with 140-mph…
Posted by John McCarthy October 4, 2024
Garth Brooks accused of rape in lawsuit from hair-and-makeup artist
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Garth Brooks accused of rape in lawsuit from hair-and-makeup artist

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who says she worked as a hair-and-makeup stylist for Garth Brooks alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday that he raped her in a Los Angeles hotel…
Posted by John McCarthy October 4, 2024
A crash saved a teenager whose car suddenly sped up to 120 mph in the rural Midwest
Posted inBreaking News National News Police News

A crash saved a teenager whose car suddenly sped up to 120 mph in the rural Midwest

MINNEAPOLIS — Sam Dutcher had just finished running errands when the 18-year-old’s Honda Pilot suddenly began to accelerate, even though his foot wasn’t on the gas pedal. The brake wouldn’t…
Posted by John McCarthy October 4, 2024
Florida woman on probation for burglary and child neglect detained at St. Thomas airport
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Florida woman on probation for burglary and child neglect detained at St. Thomas airport

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A woman who was on probation in Florida was arrested at the Cyril E. King Airport on St. Thomas for being a fugitive from justice.  Candy Wiseman…
Posted by John McCarthy October 4, 2024
Peru celebrates 2 decades of a fast-growing breed of guinea pigs eaten as a delicacy
Posted inBreaking News International News Tourism News

Peru celebrates 2 decades of a fast-growing breed of guinea pigs eaten as a delicacy

LIMA (AP) — Peru on Thursday celebrated two decades since the creation of a genetically modified breed of guinea pig, a rodent whose meat has formed a part of the…
Posted by John McCarthy October 4, 2024
Nibi the ‘diva’ beaver to stay at rescue center, Massachusetts governor decides
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Nibi the ‘diva’ beaver to stay at rescue center, Massachusetts governor decides

BOSTON (AP) — The question of whether a 2-year-old beaver named Nibi can stay with the rescuers she has known since she was a baby or must be released into the wild…
Posted by John McCarthy October 4, 2024
Dominican Republic will deport up to 10,000 Haitians a week, citing an ‘excess’ of immigrants
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Dominican Republic will deport up to 10,000 Haitians a week, citing an ‘excess’ of immigrants

SANTO DOMINGO (AP) — The Dominican Republic announced Wednesday that it would start massive deportations of Haitians living illegally in the country, expelling up to 10,000 of them a week.…
Posted by John McCarthy October 4, 2024

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