ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A fire chief in Florida has been fired for insubordination. Battalion Chief Stephen Davis wouldn’t discipline employees who refused to follow Orange County’s mandate that all employees get vaccinated against COVID-19. Fire Rescue spokeswoman Lisa McDonald says Davis was fired Tuesday for failing to follow a direct order. A union member
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By WDJT Staff Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) bus driver will be recognized by the Wisconsin State Assembly as a “Hometown Hero” at the upcoming Assembly session Wednesday, Oct. 27. While on her bus route, Cecilia Nation, who was nominated by her state
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Solid earnings from health care companies helped power broad gains for stocks on Wall Street Wednesday and pushed the benchmark S&P 500 within range of an all-time high. The S&P 500 was up 0.4%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.6% and the Nasdaq rose slightly. Abbott
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By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Business To alleviate cargo congestion at shipping ports in California, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Wednesday tackling the shortage of truck drivers and container storage needed to move critical cargo out of the ports. “California’s ports are critical to our local, state and national economies and the state is
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By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business If you were shopping online in the late summer, chances are you may have been hit with an unfortunate message: The product you’re looking for is out-of-stock. Products were out of stock online 24% more of the time in August from a year earlier across the 18 product categories tracked
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin Nota del editor: Jay Parini, poeta y novelista, enseña en el Middlebury College. Su libro más reciente es “Borges and me”, una memoria de sus viajes por las tierras altas de Escocia con el escritor argentino Jorge Luis Borges en 1971. Las opiniones expresadas en este comentario pertenecen al autor. (CNN) —
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bitcoin stormed above $66,000 for the first time on Wednesday, riding a wave of excitement about how the financial establishment is increasingly accepting the digital currency’s rise. One bitcoin was valued at $66,096, as of 4:15 p.m. Eastern time, after earlier climbing as high as
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bitcoin stormed above $66,000 for the first time on Wednesday, riding a wave of excitement about how the financial establishment is increasingly accepting the digital currency’s rise. One bitcoin was valued at $66,096, as of 4:15 p.m. Eastern time, after earlier climbing as high as
Continue Reading By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer A judge is pushing for compromise on potential payouts to people who lost loved ones and those whose units were destroyed in the deadly collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium. An initial attempt to mediate a solution over the past two weeks encountered hardened positions between the two
Continue Reading SELMA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama prosecutor says he has no plans to dismiss an indictment in an unusual ransom plot involving a stolen Confederate monument, despite a decision by prosecutors in Louisiana to drop related charges there. District Attorney Michael Jackson says he is moving ahead with the case against Jason Warnick. The man
Continue Reading By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa has started giving COVID-19 vaccinations to adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years, with a goal of inoculating at least 6 million people from this age group. The country is trying to increase its rate of vaccinations which is running behind the target of 300,000
Continue Reading CAIRO (AP) — State-run media says a head-on vehicle collision left at least 19 people dead and one other injured just outside the Egyptian capital of Cairo. The al-Ahram daily reported the crash took place Wednesday when a passenger microbus collided with a truck on a highway that links Cairo’s outskirts on the banks of
Continue Reading By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The race for city attorney in heavily liberal Seattle is offering voters a stark choice: A self-described “abolitionist” who wants to end traditional prosecution of most misdemeanors, or a Republican? The abolitionist is former public defender Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, who spent much of 2020 tweeting about her “rabid
Continue Reading By AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A group of environmental organizations is demanding the Biden administration suspend and cancel oil and gas leases in federal waters off the California coast after a recent crude oil spill. The Center for Biological Diversity and about three dozen organizations sent a petition Wednesday to
Continue Reading By AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A group of environmental organizations is demanding the Biden administration suspend and cancel oil and gas leases in federal waters off the California coast after a recent crude oil spill. The Center for Biological Diversity and about three dozen organizations sent a petition Wednesday to
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company is under criminal investigation by a district attorney in a New York City suburb into whether it misled officials to cut taxes for a golf course there. That’s according to the New York Times, citing “people with knowledge of the matter.” The newspaper didn’t say why
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — Lo que parecen ser restos humanos, junto con artículos personales, como una mochila y un cuaderno, pertenecientes a Brian Laundrie fueron encontrados en la Reserva Carlton en North Port, Florida, según el agente especial a cargo de la División de Tampa del FBI, Michael McPherson. “Estos artículos se encontraron en un
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — La Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) aprobó este miércoles una resolución sobre la “Situación en Nicaragua” en la que reitera el pedido de liberación de opositores detenidos, a poco más de dos semanas de la realización de las elecciones presidenciales en el país. En el documento aprobado por el
Continue Reading By Ariel Mallory Click here for updates on this story BAYOU LA BATRE, Alabama (WALA) — Bayou La Batre Police need the public’s help finding two bandits who robbed a woman at a haunted house. That frightful encounter happened at the South Bay Nightmare Haunted House Saturday night. The victim Lynn Harris says she volunteers
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By Chloe Melas and Josh Campbell, CNN Approximately 65 demonstrators, including Netflix employees and supporters of the transgender community, protested outside of the company’s offices in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Employees began streaming out of the building at 10:30a PT in protest of Dave Chappelle’s “The Closer” comedy special, which has been criticized as transphobic
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