New safety mandates for elevators inside North Carolina beach and vacation cottages take effect on Saturday along with all or portions of another dozen or so enacted state laws. Other laws approved this year and starting in October address sexual assault kits, magistrates and some sales tax exemptions. The elevator law is named in memory…
The population of endangered southern resident orcas has declined from 74 to 73 in the latest census, according to the Center for Whale Research. The center posted on Facebook this week that it had completed its annual census estimate of the southern resident killer whale population for the National Marine Fisheries Service. As of July…
A longtime emergency services worker who was killed in an unprovoked stabbing in New York City was planning to retire in a few months and spend more time with her family, the head of her union said. Lt. Alison Russo-Elling was about six or seven months away from retirement, Vincent Variale, president of the uniformed…
Amber Heard is facing another courtroom showdown — but this time it is over who has to foot the bill for her astronomical legal expenses, which surpassed $8 million before the start of ex-husband Johnny Depp’s six-week defamation trial against her, according to a report. Heard, 36, has a homeowner’s policy with Travelers Commercial Insurance…
A video on Wednesday captured a McLaren sports car bobbing along in floodwaters in Flordia caused by Hurricane Ian. Nina Illyria posted a TikTok of the bright yellow McLaren P1 submerged in water in front of her Bonita Springs home. “It’s my boyfriend’s. We just bought it two weeks ago,” Illyria told Storyful. Illyria’s boyfriend,…
Many areas on Charleston’s downtown peninsula were underwater midday Friday and officials reported widespread power outages across the historic city as Hurricane Ian approached. Officials said power had been knocked out across the city as high winds and sheets of rain whipped trees and power lines pending Ian’s expected landfall just up the South Carolina…
Thousands of residents of long-term care facilities in Florida remained displaced by Hurricane Ian. Kristen Knapp of the Florida Health Care Association says about 47 nursing homes and 115 assisted living facilities have been evacuated as of Friday, with around 8,000 residents among them. While structural damage and flooding were reported at facilities across the…
As Mississippi’s only burn center plans to close next month, the University of Mississippi Medical Center on Thursday said it’s making moves to help fill the gap. UMMC said it is establishing the resources for the state’s only academic medical center to fill the void caused by the upcoming Oct. 14 closure of the burn…
A former tenant is heading to court Friday to face arson and murder charges in connection with a fire at a Massachusetts apartment building last May that claimed the lives of four people, including a man who had sued right-wing radio host Alex Jones’ Infowars website. Yvonne Ngoiri, 36, faces four counts of second-degree murder…
Test scores for Wisconsin grade school students show declines since the coronavirus pandemic and persistent gaps, though there were signs of progress in the last school year. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Thursday on the math and language arts tests for grades three through eight released by the state Department of Public Instruction. The results…