The plan is expected to save MU more than $93.7 million in repair and maintenance costs and about $2.5 million in annual operating costs, according to a news release.
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Chris Harrison is speaking out in his first TV interview since temporarily stepping aside as the host of ABC’s “The Bachelor” following controversial remarks he made last month. Harrison spoke with “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan in a pre-taped interview in which Harrison was pressed to explain why he defended contestant Rachael Kirkconnell’s antebellum
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Click here for updates on this story PITTSTON, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — The silk-screening presses are busy at the Embroidery Factory on Market Street in Pittston, where workers are making sweatshirts and t-shirts for a fundraiser for the Pittston Police Department. “Yeah, it is really nice,” said Embroidery Factory co-owner Elise Nemetz. “We’re really happy with
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“Fast & Furious” fans will have to wait a bit longer to see the next installment in the blockbuster series. Universal is once again delaying “F9,” the ninth movie in the action franchise, pushing the film from a Memorial Day weekend release on May 28 to June 25. The film, which stars Vin Diesel as
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Last year, people were stockpiling food and essentials at stores and ordering a lot more groceries online. That was great news for America’s biggest grocery chains. Now companies say the pandemic-time boom is over. Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in this country, said Thursday that it expects comparable sales, or sales at stores open for
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — Businesses in the hospitality industry in Luzerne County will be able to get some much-needed cash. Luzerne County, CAN DO, and the Greater Wyoming Valley Chamber announced the COVID-19 Hospitality Industry Recovery Program (CHIRP) on Thursday. The program will distribute a total of $3.5
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LANCASTER COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WPMT ) — A Lancaster County restaurant is temporarily closed after a car crashed into it Thursday morning, according to East Hempfield Township Police. The Bob Evans restaurant on Hempland Road was struck by a vehicle around 8:54 a.m., police say. A preliminary investigation determined
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — The city council on Wednesday voted to remove the prohibition on marijuana dispensary drive-thrus in Las Vegas. It was a 6-0 vote on the bill sponsored by Councilwoman Michele Fiore of Ward 6. The move is similar to that made by the Clark County
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A Jefferson City woman was sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty to a January 2020 arson.
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Michael B. Jordan is coming for the Russians. The trailer for Amazon’s “Without Remorse” has dropped and it features Jordan as a top-secret agent bent on revenge after a Russian assassination squad kills his family. The “Black Panther” star plays Sr. Chief John Kelly in the Amazon Prime film based on the Tom Clancy novel
Continue Reading There’s something unusual about Amazon‘s first physical store outside the United States: No waiting to pay. The e-commerce giant opened a convenience grocery store in London on Thursday that offers “just walk out” shopping — meaning customers don’t scan items or pay for them in store. Instead, customers scan a QR code using the Amazon
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Missouri will begin next week to give part of its weekly coronavirus vaccine allocation to pharmacies to boost the number of doses reaching underserved areas.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SCOTT COUNTY, Iowa (Quad-City Times ) — A Scott County supervisor has hired the same election attorney defending Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in the contested election outcome in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District to keep his dual roles on the Scott County Board and North Scott school
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Oh, the places Dr. Seuss books will go after they ignite controversy. This week, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that six books penned by the children’s author will no longer be published because of the “hurtful and wrong” ways characters of color are portrayed. Now, Dr. Seuss books have soared to the top of Amazon’s bestseller
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ROCK ISLAND, Illinois (Quad-City Times ) — Agents with the Quad-City Metropolitan Enforcement Group (QCMEG) arrested three people from a Rock Island home on methamphetamine and marijuana trafficking charges. Brian R. White, 50, of 1206 14th St., is charged with two counts of delivery of more than 5
Continue Reading The UN’s high commissioner for human rights has called for an independent investigation into human rights violations that may amount to war crimes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, days after CNN published an exclusive report about a massacre in a village there. On Thursday, Michelle Bachelet said there was a need for an “independent, objective assessment”
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The Catholic bishop in Jefferson City and the city’s Catholic hospital are encouraging residents to get any coronavirus shot that is available.
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Two pieces of 16th-century armor have been returned to the Louvre museum in Paris almost 40 years after they were stolen. The Renaissance-era helmet and body armor were made in Milan and encrusted in gold and silver, according to a statement from the Louvre on Thursday. Baroness Salomon de Rothschild gave the armor to the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Just days after new safety efforts were launched in San Francisco’s Chinatown, video is surfacing of a shocking attack targeting an older man in a laundromat on the Nob Hill/Chinatown border. Surveillance video shows the terrifying moments a 67-year-old customer is attacked by three
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (WFSB) — New Haven police are investigating after a bullet struck a school window this morning. It happened just after 8 a.m. on Thursday at the Achievement First Amistad High School on Dixwell Avenue. The school went into lockdown mode, but it has since been
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