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No power and nowhere to stay as rural Florida starts recovering from Hurricane Idalia

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:02:33 GMT

HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The worst of Hurricane Idalia left residents of a region of tight-knit communities trying to find places to live as they rebuild, and waiting potentially weeks for electricity to be restored after winds and water took out entire power grids.Idalia came ashore Wednesday in Florida’s sparsely populated Big Bend region, where places to fish and paddle are connected by swamps.The scope of the disaster was coming into sharper focus Friday. A power cooperative warned its 28,000 customers it might take two weeks to restore electricity. Emergency officials promised trailers would arrive over the weekend to provide housing in an area that didn’t have much to begin with.“We’ll build back. We’ll continue to fish and enjoy catching the redfish and trout and eating oysters and catching scallops and eating them,” said real estate agent Jimmy Butler, who lives in Horseshoe Beach, which saw some of the worst damage.Idalia made landfall Wednesday near K...

Hopkinton police warn residents after coyote snatches pet dog from owner while out on walk

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:02:33 GMT

Police in Hopkinton are urging pet owners to take caution after receiving a report of a coyote attacking and snatching up a dog from its owner.In a Facebook post, the Hopkinton Police Department said a woman had been walking her dogs Thursday afternoon when a coyote approached and was able to drag away one of her pets.“An officer assisted with attempting to locate the dog with the owner,” the department stated. “We feel horrible this happened to someone’s fur buddy, they are members of the family and are a tremendous loss when we lose them.”Police are asking that anyone walking with their dogs or kids use extra caution while on local trails, including the Whisper Way trail, Yellow Trail and Red Trail.The department emphasized that the areas are a coyote’s natural habitat, and that while out walking, residents should make sure to keep their dogs on a leash and also carry a walking stick, if possible.Sharing tips on their Facebook page, police sugge...

Germany charges 98-year-old former Nazi camp guard with being accessory to murder

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:02:33 GMT

Berlin (CNN) — A 98-year-old former Nazi concentration guard has been indicted on charges of aiding and abetting the murder of more than 3,300 people during the Holocaust, German authorities said on Friday.The man’s name was not made public by prosecutors, in accordance with German privacy laws.The public prosecutor in the western city of Giessen, near Frankfurt, said in a statement that the man worked at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945.The man, who was a minor at the time of the alleged crimes, is accused of “having assisted in the cruel and insidious killing of thousands of prisoners,” prosecutors said.The man will face a juvenile court because he was under the age of 18 when he served at Sachsenhausen. The statement added that the trial is expected to be in Hanau, close to the man’s home, in accordance with juvenile law.A psychiatric assessment of the suspect in October 2022 found that he is fit to stand trial within certain limits, the statem...

Teen charged after stabbing in Manchester, NH leaves 18-year-old victim with life-threatening injuries

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:02:33 GMT

A teenager is facing charges after an overnight stabbing in Manchester left an 18-year-old victim in serious condition, according to officials.The Manchester Police Department said a 16-year-old male was charged after officers were first called to the area of 300 Elm Street Thursday night for a report of a person stabbed.Responding around 9:20 p.m., arriving officers found an 18-year-old male suffering from life-threatening injuries in an adjacent parking lot.Authorities learned the stabbing happened after the occupants of two vehicles got into an argument on I-293 North and later exited the highway before arriving at the lot. According to police, the argument then turned physical, leading to the victim being stabbed.Officers later identified a 16-year-old male and charged the teenager with First Degree Assault, according to the police department.As of Friday morning, Manchester PD said the 18 year old who was injured was in serious, but stable condition as he continues to recover.N...

Labor Day snapshot: 7 stats about American workers

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:02:33 GMT

By Anna Helhoski and Taryn Phaneuf | NerdWalletWhen Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894 — well before artificial intelligence and remote work — the American workforce faced other significant disruptions.Workers were beginning to leave the farming jobs that, up until the 1880s, had made up over half the workforce, according to a 1966 Wesleyan University study. Many of those farmers, as well as new immigrants, headed to growing cities for industrial work.Then the industrial workforce changed, too. Manufacturing, as a percentage of the nonfarm workforce, peaked in 1953 at 32%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). As of July 2023, that figure stands at 8%.Since 1948, when the BLS began collecting employment figures, the nonfarming workforce has increased fivefold — and continues to evolve.The last few pandemic-scrambled years have seen a huge spike in unemployment followed by an equally dramatic decline, as well as a work-from-home movement for office workers t...

Hong Kong, other parts of south China grind to near standstill as powerful Typhoon Saola passes

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:02:33 GMT

HONG KONG (AP) — Most of Hong Kong and other parts of southern China ground to a near standstill Friday with classes and flights canceled as powerful Typhoon Saola passed along the coast. Many workers stayed at home and students in various cities saw the start of their school year postponed to next week. Trading on Hong Kong’s stock market was suspended and hundreds of people were stranded at the airport after about 460 flights were canceled in the key regional business and travel hub.Rail authorities in mainland China halted all trains entering or leaving Guangdong province from Friday night to Saturday evening, state television CCTV reported.The Hong Kong Observatory issued a No. 10 hurricane signal, the highest warning under the city’s weather system. It was the first No. 10 warning since Super Typhoon Mangkhut hit Hong Kong in 2018.The observatory said Saola — with maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometers (121 miles) per hour — came its closest to the financial hub at aro...

Stock market today: Wall Street is mixed following data that shows the labor market is cooling

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:02:33 GMT

NEW YORK — Stocks turned mixed on Wall Street in afternoon trading Friday as investors weigh the implications of a new government report showing that U.S. job growth increased at a healthy but more moderate pace last month. The major indexes have wavered between small gains and losses after rising as much as 0.8% in the early going. Stocks initially got a boost from the jobs report, which supports investors’ hopes that the Federal Reserve will hold off on raising interest rates again in its bid to lower inflation. The indexes gave back most of their early gains as bond yields began ticking higher.The S&P 500 was up 0.1%. The benchmark index is coming off its first monthly loss since February, but is on pace for its second straight weekly gain.The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 69 points, or 0.2%, to 34,791 as of 1:38 p.m. Eastern. The Nasdaq composite slipped 0.1%.The Labor Department reported Friday that employers added a solid 187,000 jobs in August. The job growth marked...

Police identify suspect in fatal double shooting in Toronto’s west end

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:02:33 GMT

Toronto police have identified a suspect in a fatal double shooting in the city’s west end that claimed the life of a 23-year-old man and left a woman with injuries.Officers responded to reports of a shooting in the Northcliffe Boulevard and St. Clair Avenue West area on Thursday, Aug. 24, at around 7:35 p.m.Police say a man walked into a restaurant in the area asking for help because he had been shot.The man, identified as Nakhari Negus Henry-Robinson, 23, of Toronto, (pictured below) was later pronounced dead at hospital.Emergency crews found a second victim in the area — a 51-year-old woman.She was treated at hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.Photo of homicide victim Nakhari Negus Henry-Robinson. HANDOUT/Toronto Police ServiceOn Friday, police issued an arrest warrant for a suspect.Ridge Kazumba, 26, of Toronto, is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for second-degree murder.He’s described as approximately six feet tall with a medium-heavy build, brown eyes...

Metal factory explosion in Brazil kills 2 people and injures several others

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:02:33 GMT

SAO PAULO (AP) — An explosion Friday at a metal factory in southern Brazil killed two people and seriously injured at least 12 others, state officials said. Dozens of firefighters and rescue teams were sent to the site of the explosion in the countryside city of Cabreuva in Sao Paulo state, Gov. Tarcisio de Freitas said on social media. Cabreuva lies about 90 kilometers (about 60 miles) northwest of the city of Sao Paulo.Footage on Brazilian TV broadcasters showed the factory completely destroyed by the explosion.Local media outlets said the blast was triggered by overheating equipment, and that hospitals in the area had been warned there would be a big influx of injured patients. The Associated Press

Gun and drug charges filed against Myon Burrell, sent to prison for life as teen but freed in 2020

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:02:33 GMT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors filed gun and drug charges Friday against Myon Burrell, who was sent to prison for life as a teenager but was set free in 2020 after 18 years behind bars after his sentence was commuted in a high-profile murder case.Burrell, now 37, was arrested in the Minneapolis suburb of Robbinsdale on Tuesday after police said they found a handgun and drugs in his SUV during a traffic stop. His prosecution and harsh punishment in the murder case raised questions about the integrity of the criminal justice system that put him away for the death 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards, of Minneapolis, who was killed by a stray bullet as she was doing her homework in 2008. The Associated Press and APM Reports in 2020 uncovered new evidence and serious flaws in that police investigation, ultimately leading to the creation of an independent national legal panel to review the case, which led the state pardons board to commute Burrell’s sentence. However, his request for a pardo...