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- USReuters
Houston area grapples with heat, power cuts after major storms
The NWS predicted temperatures around 90 degrees (32.2 C) and warned residents in a post on the X social media platform of the threat of heat stroke, saying "Don't overdo yourself" as they continued cleaning up from Thursday night's storms. Storms packing winds of up to 100 mph (161 kph) tore through the region, damaging homes and buildings, felling power lines and leaving more than 800,000 people without electricity, according to local media.
1 min read - USMiami Herald
Weather alert: Heat advisory from the Keys to Fort Lauderdale, but tornado chance, too
Severe thunderstorms are possible over the weekend.
3 min read - USOcala Star Banner
Hundreds turn out Friday at vigil for the 8 farm workers killed Tuesday in Marion County
A memorial service was held for 8 farm workers killed Tuesday in a bus crash in southwest Marion County
5 min read - USWHBF Davenport
Why Illinois professional licenses could be delayed
Illinois has gotten a bad reputation when it comes to processing professional licenses, with some applicants waiting months to get their licenses. Our Quad Cities News Illinois Capitol Bureau correspondent Theodora Koulouvaris reports that the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, the department in charge of fixing the issue, just missed a crucial deadline, […]
- NewsWGN Chicago
Weekend Break: Lottie’s Pub 90th Anniversary
CHICAGO — This Saturday, Lottie’s Pub in the city’s Bucktown neighborhood is celebrating its 90th anniversary! Join WGN’s Christine Flores as she reports live from the historic establishment on Chicago’s Northwest Side, bringing you all of their specials and deals for one of Chicago’s longest open bars and restaurants.
- USPioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.
Man fatally shot at Green Line station in St. Paul
A man was fatally shot Friday night at a Green Line station in St. Paul. Police responded at about 11 p.m. to a report of shots fired at the eastbound Metro Transit Green Line station at Dale Street and University Avenue. Officers found a man on the platform with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to Regions Hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to the Metro Transit Police ...
1 min read - LifestyleJournal-News, Hamilton, Ohio
Changes in store for 2024 Hamilton Pride festival
May 18—Hamilton Ohio Pride will mix things up a bit for its annual Pride event next month. This year's event will be the organization's fourth since 2019, skipping in 2020 due to COVID. It celebrates love and fellowship by promoting unity, inclusion and awareness of sexual and gender diversity, said Hamilton Ohio Pride founder Taylor Stone-Welch, the 2023 Hamilton Citizen of the Year. "What's ...
4 min read - USThe Daily News Journal
200+ mourners attend candle vigil for 11-year-old Yousuf Ayesh
Yousuf Ayesh, a Black Fox fifth grader, died May 14 of brain cancer. He was on the same floor as Asher Sullivan, 10, who was sucked into a storm drain
1 min read - USNY Daily News
Bronx school aide, 23, sends love letter to 10-year-old student; attacked by child’s stepfather: NYPD
A 23-year-old Bronx grammar school teacher’s aide was arrested after he sent a 10-year-old student a love letter — and attacked by the girl’s furious stepfather, police said Saturday. Estevan Hamilton was punched in the the face by the child’s stepfather, who stormed over to P.S. 481, the Steam Bridge School on White Plains Road in Van Nest, after the child brought the aide’s letter home to ...
2 min read - USPioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.
Joe Soucheray: We’ve been burned before. So, some questions about that $100 million, Governor
The office of Gov. Tim Walz announced the other day $100 million in new funding for organizations serving Minnesotans facing homelessness. Ordinarily, this kind of news would be met with charitable reflection or the whispered thanksgiving of gratitude; homelessness is a scourge and a shame. Ordinarily. But this is Minnesota, land of disappeared moola. The announcement came as food fraudsters ...
3 min read - USKXRM Colorado Springs
CSPD Investigates Fatal Shooting Near Memorial Park
(COLORADO SPRINGS) — According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, officers responded to a shooting in the 100 block of South Union Boulevard near Memorial Park at around 11:30 p.m. on Friday, May 17. When they arrived, they found a victim who had been shot at least once and was dead at the scene. The […]
1 min read - OpinionAZCentral | The Arizona Republic
Conor O'Callaghan is throwing shade at CD1 opponents. Most of it have no merit
Opinion: A good deal of mudslinging is happening in the Congressional District 1 Democratic primary is coming from one candidate.
3 min read - USAlbuquerque Journal, N.M.
Q&A with Bernalillo County's first deputy county manager for behavioral health
May 18—After months of searching, the Bernalillo County Commission approved hiring the county's first deputy county manager for behavioral health in April. The position was created in 2023 to oversee the county's Behavioral Health Division, which includes the CARE Campus, the Behavioral Health Initiative, the Tiny Home Village, and the Resource Reentry Center. The new Deputy County Manager for ...
4 min read - USThe 74
Ohio Bill Would Require Released Time for Religious Instruction
Two Republican lawmakers are trying to strengthen an existing Ohio law by requiring — instead of just allowing — school districts to create a policy letting students to be excused from school to go to released time religious instruction. State Reps. Al Cutrona, R-Canfield, and Gary Click, R-Vickery, recently introduced House Bill 445 and it […]
4 min read - PoliticsThe Guardian
Trump trial judge rebuked for donations to Democrat-aligned groups in 2020
Ex-president’s legal team sure to make hay out of Juan Merchan’s $35 gift to Biden for President and anti-Republican groups
2 min read - PoliticsAZCentral | The Arizona Republic
Ruben Gallego looks to past John McCain, Kyrsten Sinema campaign donors for moeny
U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's departure from the race has created an opening for those who backed her campaigns and are considering who follows her.
4 min read - OpinionThe Desert Sun
Too much downtime, too little learning in special day classes
Failing to provide sufficient instructional harms students receiving special education services.
3 min read - USPolitico
Vermont’s data privacy law sparks state lawmaker alliance against tech lobbyists
State lawmakers from Maine to Oklahoma say the lessons they learned from battling industry over privacy bills can provide a new playbook to fight back.
8 min read - USPeople
Pregnant Woman Went into Labor When She Was Beaten to Death Along with Husband and Son — But Who Killed Them?
In November 1987, Russell Keith Dardeen and Ruby Elaine Dardeen shared a 3-year-old son, Peter, and had another child on the way
2 min read - USStar Tribune (Minneapolis)
Is Minneapolis' bird-safe glass ordinance saving avian lives?
As millions of migratory birds travel northward to their ancestral breeding grounds this spring, volunteers with the Audubon Chapter of Minneapolis are hitting the streets of downtown Minneapolis, looking for victims of window strikes. Their objective: to determine whether a 2016 city ordinance requiring new skyways to have bird-safe glass is working as intended. Jeannine Thiele, vice ...
4 min read - LifestyleWFTV
100% of Orlando Red Lobster restaurant contents sold as auction closes
Red Lobster Seafood Co. restaurant contents from closed restaurants in Orlando and Altamonte Springs have sold. The auction started May 13 at 3 p.m. and ended May 16. Each restaurant's contents were sold in their entirety, and removal of contents was scheduled for May 17.
1 min read - USPalm Beach Daily News
Dangerous heat: A heat advisory is in effect for all of South Florida as heat index hits 109
In the week beginning May 12, five daytime heat records were broken, including May 15's 98 degrees, which broke a 1992 record by four degrees.
2 min read - USThe Norman Transcript, Okla.
OU Law Students raise $11,00 for Sulphur victims
May 18—University of Oklahoma Law students raised $11,000 worth of supplies to give to tornado victims in Sulphur. John Kirchhoefer, an OU Law student, said the project required teamwork from different organizations to make it happen. On April 28, an EF3 tornado ripped through downtown Sulphur with winds around 165 miles per hour, taking down homes, buildings and other infrastructure. The ...
3 min read - USCharlotte Observer
Charlotte I-485 toll lanes completion faces yet another delay, NCDOT says
“The public has been patient for five years, and the Department wants this project finished,” NCDOT official says.
2 min read - USWREG articles
Man in critical condition after overnight shooting in Whitehaven
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man is in critical condition after an overnight shooting in Whitehaven, police say. At 3:55 a.m., officers responded to the 800 block of Twinkletown Cove regarding a shooting. When they arrived, they located a man who was suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. He was taken to Regional One in critical […]
- LifestyleThe Norman Transcript, Okla.
THANK A FARMER: Local family brings farm-fresh meat to Norman
May 18—Farming is a family affair for the Mappes Family, who have raised hogs and cattle for four generations. Darryl Mappes, the patriarch of the family, learned how to care for animals from his father, Henry "Doc" Mappes. Doc was the first veterinarian in Moore, and he had participated in 4-H from an early age. Doc initially started a farm near what is now Sooner Road in rural Cleveland ...
4 min read - USWFTV
New college campus brings vocational education back to Eatonville
Eatonville just got its first college campus with the debut of the newest Orange Technical College location.
1 min read - PoliticsAnchorage Daily News, Alaska
DNC chair kicks off the Alaska Democratic Convention in Juneau
May 18—JUNEAU — The chair of the Democratic National Committee was in Juneau on Friday to help launch the Alaska Democratic Convention. Democrats are campaigning this year to reelect U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat who was first elected to Congress in 2022 to replace the late-Rep. Don Young, a Republican who served for decades. Democrats are also campaigning to form bipartisan coalitions in ...
2 min read - USTimes West Virginian, Fairmont
Fairmont State drone competition provides launchpad to space exploration for students
May 18—FAIRMONT — Saturn's largest moon is Titan, the second largest in the solar system, after Jupiter's Ganymede. Titan is also large enough to hold onto an atmosphere, one of the few moons in the Solar System that can. However, no carbon-based life form from Earth could easily live there as the atmosphere is composed out of a choking mix of nitrogen, methane and ethane. NASA wants to go to ...
4 min read - USWSB Cox articles
GBI identifies suspect killed in Mableton officer involved shooting at gas station
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has identified the man shot and killed by police at a Mableton gas station.
2 min read - USThe Tennessean
Wilson County man found guilty of 'reckless' shooting death of Green Hill High graduate
Austin Gordon shot celebrating his 19th birthday according to prosecutors
1 min read - USNY Daily News
Rudy Giuliani served Arizona indictment papers for election fraud scheme at 80th birthday party
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was served a patriotic-themed birthday cake during his 80th birthday party in Palm Springs Friday night — then served with a notice of indictment related to an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona. Giuliani was indicted last month alongside 18 other allies of former President Donald Trump in connection with their unsuccessful ...
1 min read - USThe Enquirer
18-year-old killed in Hyde Park shooting, police say
Officers reported that they were in the area of the 2200 block of Dana Avenue near Withrow High School around 3:30 a.m. when they heard gunshots.
1 min read - USHerald-Tribune
Graduation Photos: North Port High School 2024
North Port High School graduated its senior class during a ceremony at the school's football field on Thursday evening.
1 min read - PoliticsStar Tribune (Minneapolis)
What's the Minnesota delegation working on in Washington?
In this election year, much of our team's reporting will be focused on the politics leading up to November. But there are a number of bills that members of Minnesota's congressional delegation are behind that highlight their priorities. As the Star Tribune's new Washington correspondent, I'll be keeping a close watch on them. Here's a short list:Sen. Amy KlobucharThe state's senior senator has ...
4 min read - USWHBF Davenport
Augustana students to present Longview Park master plan
Augustana College students will present the Longview Park master plan to the City of Rock Island Parks and Recreation Board on Tuesday, May 21, according to a news release. The plan will help guide leaders in making decisions for future upgrades and projects for the more than a century-old park, located at 18th Avenue and 17th Street. […]
1 min read - USKentucky Lantern
Biden celebrates ‘the power of an education’ on Brown v. Board 70th anniversary
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday echoed his commitment to advancing racial and educational equity while celebrating the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Biden has spent this past week commemorating the anniversary of the landmark ruling in which the nation’s highest court ruled racial segregation […] The post Biden celebrates ‘the power of an education’ on Brown v. Board 70th anniversary appeared first on Kentucky Lantern.
3 min read - USTallahassee Democrat
TPD investigating fatal Friday night shooting – city's 14th gun violence death in 2024
Police arrived just before 11 p.m. to the Circle K on North Monroe Street where they found a man dead on scene, according to police.
2 min read - USAmarillo Globe-News
Amarillo mayor talks about next steps after abortion ordinance petition validated
Mayor Cole Stanley discussed the next steps for the abortion ordinance and hinted that voters would likely decide it in November.
7 min read - USChicago Tribune
Northbrook man charged in crash that killed Glenview teen, police say
A Northbrook man was charged in the horrific crash that killed a 17-year-old Glenbrook South High School senior and injured himself and two others in Glenview Sunday, police said. Taeyoung Kim, 21, was charged with two counts of aggravated driving under the influence causing death, reckless homicide, aggravated driving under the influence causing great bodily harm, driving under the influence ...
2 min read - USOrlando Sentinel
Heat and storms forecast for Central Florida on Saturday
Heat indices are forecast to be reach the 100s in Central Florida on Saturday, the National Weather Service said. Afternoon and evening storms are also expected in the area, NWS said. They are forecast to be strong to severe. The high today will be 94 degrees and the low will be 73 degrees. ©2024 Orlando Sentinel. Visit orlandosentinel.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. ...
- USWHNT Huntsville
Athens man convicted of murdering mother in 2018
A Limestone County jury found an Athens man guilty of murdering his mother in 2018 on Friday.
1 min read - USStar Beacon, Ashtabula, Ohio
Trial delayed in Schwartz case
May 18—Rueben Schwartz will not face a jury of his peers later this month, after the judge in his case granted a request to delay his May 28 trial on a variety of financial crimes. On Thursday, Judge Donald Nugent approved an unopposed motion from Schwartz's attorneys to delay the trial until July 29. The motion to delay the trial states prosecutors and the defense have made "substantial ...
2 min read - USHerald-Tribune
Graduation Photos: Suncoast Polytechnical High School 2024
Suncoast Polytechnical High School graduated its senior class during a ceremony at the Sarasota Opera House on Friday evening.
1 min read - Worlddpa international
Slovakian politicians report rise in threats after Fico attack
Following the the assassination attempt on Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, there has been an increase in threats against other politicians in the country, Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok told the daily newspaper Pravda on Saturday. He said he personally had received death threats. The minister belongs to the second-largest governing party, Voice-Social Democracy (Hlas-SD). A member of parliament from Smer, the largest governing party led by Fico, had also been threatened. A perpetrator
2 min read - USWHIO
Officers, medics respond to crash in Germantown
Officers and medics are responding to a crash in Germantown Saturday morning.
- USHerald-Tribune
Graduation Photos: Sarasota High School 2024
The commencement ceremony for the Sarasota High School Class of 2024 was held outdoors at Charlie Cleland Stadium at Ihrig Field on Friday.
1 min read - OpinionThe Courier Journal
Don't judge LMPD for arresting Scottie Scheffler yet. We don't have all the facts.
Opinion: I imagine Scottie Scheffler got released because he was sober, cooperative, had the means to post bond. And, he had a tee time!
1 min read - BusinessAZCentral | The Arizona Republic
Most metro Phoenix neighborhoods saw home prices climb during first quarter
“Some signs are starting to look slightly positive,” said Mike Orr of The Cromford Report. “Pricing is the brightest spot for sellers.”
3 min read - USHerald-Tribune
Conservationist and philanthropist Elizabeth Moore receives honorary degree in Rhode Island
ALSO: Coast Guard Auxiliary free boating activities; Manatee River Rotary scholarships; MOAS awards; Sarasota softball; Sarasota Guitar Show; camps.
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