In The News

Sep
21
2021
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By Troy Warren
Authorities search preserve for Gabby Petito’s boyfriend

Authorities search preserve for Gabby Petito’s boyfriend

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By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT  NORTH PORT, Fla. — Authorities were once again searching a swampy preserve area Tuesday near the home of the boyfriend wanted for questioning in the death of 22-year-old Gabby Petito, whose body was discovered at a Wyoming national park months after the pair set out on a cross-country road trip. Police in North Port, Florida, said Tuesday morning that investigators have returned to the Carlton Reserve to look for Brian Laundrie, 23. Investigators searched the 24,000-acre Florida nature preserve over the weekend without success. They focused on the area after Laundrie’s parents told…
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Sep
19
2021
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By Troy Warren
Trailblazing tourist trip to orbit ends with splashdown

Trailblazing tourist trip to orbit ends with splashdown

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By MARCIA DUNN, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks #Technology A trailblazing tourist trip to orbit has ended safely with a splashdown in the Atlantic CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four space tourists safely ended their trailblazing trip to orbit Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean just before sunset, not far from where their chartered flight began three days earlier. The all-amateur crew was the first to circle the world without a professional astronaut. The billionaire who paid undisclosed millions for the trip and his three guests wanted…
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Sep
18
2021
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By Troy Warren
September 18 2021 Everything you need to know about the world today in 80 seconds

September 18 2021 Everything you need to know about the world today in 80 seconds

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NATIONAL & WORLD NEWS |By wire reports Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks   Ex-deputy charged with manslaughter in white teen’s death A former Arkansas sheriff’s deputy was charged Friday with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a white teenager whose death has drawn the attention of national civil rights activists. A special prosecutor announced the felony charge against Michael Davis, a former sergeant with the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office, in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Hunter Brittain. Davis faces between three and 10 years in prison if convicted. Davis shot Brittain during a June 23 traffic stop outside an auto repair…
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Sep
18
2021
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By Troy Warren
UPDATE: United Airlines lifts nationwide ground stop

UPDATE: United Airlines lifts nationwide ground stop

In The News, Travel,
By Rich Barak, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT #Travel Delays expected due to earlier outage, according to Jacksonville airport United Airlines has lifted a nationwide ground stop that was due to a systems outage, according to reporter Janet Shamlian. United was experiencing a systemwide outage that prevented boarding at some airports nationally, including Denver, Shamlian reported. Delays are expected at some airports, including Jacksonville, Florida, due to the earlier systemwide outage. United’s app and website also were down for many people, Shamlian said. Some travelers were unable to check in or board flights, including at Birmingham’s airport. The ground…
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Sep
15
2021
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By Troy Warren
Sky CEO: Companies That Don’t Embrace Diversity “Are Just Going to Fall Away”

Sky CEO: Companies That Don’t Embrace Diversity “Are Just Going to Fall Away”

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BY GEORG SZALAI | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Business At the Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention, Dana Strong also addressed the Comcast company's European expansion plans, content business ambitions and deal mentality. Comcast’s European TV giant Sky is looking to expand across continental Europe in the coming years, boost its content creation business and increase diversity, CEO Dana Strong said on Wednesday. “There is no doubt that we can all do better” on diversity, she said. “We have got to keep making progress. I feel really passionately about it actually. Creating an environment and a culture where multiple, different voices,…
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Sep
09
2021
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By Troy Warren
Florida man wins $1M same day he opens new auto shop

Florida man wins $1M same day he opens new auto shop

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By The Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks #Lifestyle A Florida man won $1 million in a lottery game the same day he and his wife opened an auto repair shop. Brian Woodle, 46, bought the $5 Gold Rush Supreme scratch-off ticket from a Circle K in Callahan. “I love working on vehicles and it has always been my dream to own my own repair shop,” Woodle said in a news release sent by the Florida Lottery. “At the end of our first day, I stopped by Circle K to get a few things and picked up a Lottery ticket;…
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Sep
08
2021
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Kia again halted Georgia vehicle production, blaming chip shortage

Kia again halted Georgia vehicle production, blaming chip shortage

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By Matt Kempner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT #Cars #Business Kia Motors has again temporarily halted work at its sprawling vehicle assembly plant in Georgia, citing a shortage of semiconductor chips. It’s a problem other automakers also have wrestled with, increasing challenges for consumers trying to find and buy new cars, SUVs and pickup trucks. Kia stopped production Tuesday “because of supply chain conditions related to the ongoing worldwide semiconductor chip shortage,” spokesman Rick Douglas wrote in an email to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He said regular production for all three shifts would resume Wednesday. The chip shortages first hit…
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Sep
07
2021
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New mu COVID-19 variant now found in 49 states

New mu COVID-19 variant now found in 49 states

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By Brandon Sapienza, New York Daily News (TNS) Troy Warren for CNT #COVID-19  Since being discovered in Colombia in January, the mu variant of COVID-19 has spread to nearly four dozen countries and has made its presence known in Hawaii and Alaska. It has so far been found in 49 states, with Nebraska being the only state to not have a mu variant case detected. Health officials believe mu is even more transmissible than the delta variant and has the potential to resist vaccines. In the U.S., the mu variant has been detected in 49 states and the District of Columbia,…
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Sep
06
2021
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Los Angeles: Tiffany Haddish, Issa Rae and Other Industry Locals on South L.A.’s Gentrification: “A Blessing and a Curse”

Los Angeles: Tiffany Haddish, Issa Rae and Other Industry Locals on South L.A.’s Gentrification: “A Blessing and a Curse”

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BY KIRSTEN CHUBA | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for LosAngelesNewsAndTalk.Com #RealEstate   The rapidly changing, historically Black area is seeing home prices spiking as development is on the rise: "It's gotten very white." For more than 100 years, South Los Angeles has been home to a largely Black and brown population, rooted in a history of redlining and segregation that kept nonwhite residents below Washington Boulevard. Los Angeles is “terribly bifurcated by race,” says entrepreneur Prophet Walker, a native of South L.A. “And that’s all a remnant of redlining.” These days though, the area looks a little different. As native Tiffany Haddish says, “It’s gotten…
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Sep
05
2021
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Landlord finds 19 tarantulas, 1 python left behind by tenant

Landlord finds 19 tarantulas, 1 python left behind by tenant

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By The Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks AUBURN, Maine — A Maine landlord arranged for the rescue of 15 tarantulas and one python that had been left behind by a tenant. Animal rescuer Drew Desjardins was called to the apartment Wednesday in Auburn, the Sun Journal reported. He found that four of 19 tarantulas had died and that the ball python did not have water. Desjardins said Thursday that he took the surviving animals back to his home and that they were doing fine. All the recovered animals are illegal in Maine and will be relocated. There was no word…
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