Emergency operations centers in our area monitoring track of Tropical Storm Ian
Emergency operations centers in our area monitoring track of Tropical Storm Ian
Emergency operations centers in our area monitoring track of Tropical Storm Ian
Casper the Great Pyrenees was recently nominated the People's Choice Pup as part of the Farm Bureau's Farm Dog of the Year awards. Casper was horrifically injured defending his owner and sheep from a pack of 8 coyotes last year, but thanks to donations has fully recovered.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Pavel Buchnevich scored 38 seconds into overtime and the St. Louis Blues beat the Vegas Golden Knights 2-1 on Monday night. Alexey Toropchenko scored in regulation for the Blues and Jordan Binnington made 33 saves. The Blues improved to 12-0-0 when scoring the first goal of the game, and are 3-0-1 in their last four straight trips to Vegas. “We feel real good when we score first, that’s for sure,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “We haven’t done a great job when we haven’t scored
Comedian Xi Diao says he knows he should avoid talking politics on stage, but sharing a family name with Chinese President Xi Jinping makes it hard to resist. The 33-year-old civil engineer gets nervous laughs whenever he breaks a de facto rule of Chinese comedy: Don’t say anything that makes China look bad. To most comedians, that means no jokes about censorship, no mentioning the president's name, and no discussion of China’s extraordinarily strict COVID lockdowns or social topics like domestic violence.
Asian stocks slipped to three-week lows and Hong Kong's unloved Hang Seng index slumped to a one-year trough on Tuesday while bonds and the dollar steadied as investors tempered expectations for cuts to U.S. interest rates and waited on U.S. jobs data. The Australian dollar fell 0.6% after the central bank left interest rates on hold, as expected, and emphasised that the future direction rates would depend on data. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 1% in late afternoon trade, with Hong Kong doing most of the dragging with a 1.6% fall.
Home Secretary will meet his counterpart to sign the treaty and discuss next steps during his first overseas visit in the job
Sacramento police believe DUI and speeding led to a crash in the Pocket neighborhood that killed a woman and hurt two children. Alethea Lee, 26, is facing charges related to driving under the influence and causing great bodily injury, the police department said. Officers also plan to charge Lee additionally with gross vehicular manslaughter. The crash happened around 6:05 p.m. on Friday along Pocket Road near Greenhaven Drive, police said. A driver had reportedly lost control before they hit three pedestrians, a woman and two children.
A man died Monday evening after a medical emergency during the Sacramento Kings' game with the New Orleans Pelicans, officials said. The Kings told KCRA 3 that a fan had the emergency during the first quarter of the game. Emergency medical services tried CPR on the person, but the man died. "The organization offers its deepest condolences to the guest's family and loved ones," the Kings said.
Spending 15 minutes a day cooking a quick, healthy meal, moving your body or getting to sleep earlier can change your life, says Joe Wicks
We’ve had genies of the playful, wish-granting “Thief of Baghdad” type, and more recently quite a number of evil djinn in horror movies. But it’s hard to recall a prior screen portrait of the same malleable Arabic mythological creatures quite like “HWJN,” which takes the cuddlesome, anthropomorphic “They’re just like us, only magical!” view of …
OVERTHINKING: Just as there are trends in life, there are also trends in death. Research suggests the act of having a funeral is in decline, but Oliver Keens suggests there is both joy and necessary pain in the informal ways we mark death today
INTERVIEW : The celebrity fitness coach and presenter chats to Hannah Twiggs about the inspiration behind his new book, the benefits of his ‘small daily wins’ philosophy and his tips for improving both our mental and physical health
Prosecutors say Jerrid Joseph Powell targeted homeless people in their sleep, carrying out four murders in four days
A man is facing murder charges after Woodland police said he rammed another man with his vehicle and then shot him. David Manuel Sanchez-Gallardo, 33, is the person accused of the crash and shooting, the Woodland Police Department said. This all started, police said, when a 36-year-old man went outside a business in the 100 block of West Main Street near Cottonwood Street and started making threats. Sometime later, another man, later identified as Sanchez-Gallardo, drove his vehicle into the business and hit the 36-year-old.
The case against the department is expected to conclude on Thursday with a decision at a later date
His attorneys are making another attempt to block a judge’s order against his attacks
The S&P Global Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for Russian services fell to 52.2 in November from 53.6 in October, but stayed above the 50 mark that separates expansion from contraction for the 10th consecutive month. "The rate of growth eased notably amid a slower uptick in new business," S&P Global said in a statement. Russia is grappling with a shortage of labour, in large part due to conscription and emigration linked to Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Countries at the United Nations' COP28 climate conference are considering calling for a phase-out of fossil fuels as part of the summit's final deal, according to a draft negotiating text seen on Tuesday. Research published on Tuesday showed global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are set to hit a record high this year, exacerbating climate change and fuelling more destructive extreme weather. A draft of what could be the final agreement from COP28, published by the U.N. climate body, kicks off negotiations around what is considered the summit's defining issue: whether countries will agree to eventually end the use of fossil fuels.
A fearless investigation hears from a new breed of criminals who go to extreme measures. Plus Louis Theroux talks to Chelsea Manning. Here’s what to watch this evening
Carillon Tower Advisers, an investment management company, released its “Carillon Eagle Mid Cap Growth Fund” third quarter 2023 investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. After a robust first half of the year, the S&P 500 Index declined 3.3% in the third quarter, leaving the market up 13.1% through the first nine […]
Small plane crash-lands into garden and hits apartment building wall after suffering engine failure