In Northwest Miami-Dade, a 70-year-old driver struck a T-Mobile store with such power that the automobile wound up in the center of the establishment. At approximately 9:30 a.m. on Friday, the man slammed his Volkswagen Jetta into the storefront near Northwest 176th Street and 57th Avenue, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office. First responders used…
Over 100 employees are being laid off by one of the biggest medical systems in the region. 116 workers at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Virtual Health Services will lose their jobs beginning in July, per a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN). Chad Melton, the interim president of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health’s Puget Sound Market,…
Blue Diamond Growers announced on Friday that it will be closing its historic almond factory in midtown Sacramento and ceasing operations. Blue Diamond estimates that the shutdown will affect about 600 jobs. The difficulties of operating a plant out of a historic building were one of the reasons given for the upcoming closure in a…
Deputies in Upshur County discovered three children living among rotting trash and heaps of feces on Tuesday, leading to the arrest of a couple from West Virginia. According to the Upshur County Sheriff’s Office, three children, ages two, five, and fifteen, were discovered living in filthy conditions in a house on Frazier Road in Rock…
This summer, Baltimore County homeowners should anticipate another increase in their water costs. Beginning in July, residents of Baltimore County will pay a 4.9% rise in water utility rates, as approved by the Baltimore City Board of Estimates (BOE). Similar rate hikes were implemented in 2021 and 2023. “That 5% increase has been going on…
Beginning on July 1, two statewide reforms might raise gas prices throughout California, however it’s unclear how much they might increase. This could lead to a contentious political fight. The first change is that the state will raise the excise tax rate from 59.6 cents to 61.2 cents per gallon. However, there is considerable ambiguity…
A retired police officer who lied to authorities about giving the former senior leader of the extremist group Proud Boys, who was being investigated for burning a Black Lives Matter flag in the nation’s capital, sensitive information was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Friday. When Shane Lamond was a lieutenant with the Metropolitan…
A new state program that launches this month may provide some relief to California homeowners whose homes were devastated in a recent natural disaster, such as the January 2024 floods in San Diego. According to a news release from the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, the CalAssist Mortgage Fund, which is administered by the…
After confessing to repeatedly stabbing a shark in the skull in a Snapchat video that went viral late last month, a Florida man posing as a boat captain was taken into custody on Thursday. After brutally severing a bull shark in a video dubbed “Bud broke my rod” on a wreck site off Key West…
A $5,000 reward is being offered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for information regarding an April Tesla firebombing in Kansas. Around 1:05 a.m. on April 3, 2025, a suspect was seen tossing two lighted Molotov cocktails at the rear of a Tesla collision center in Lenexa, Kansas, according to a news…
