By AP HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating an incident involving a plane at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport, which one passenger described as a rough landing that sparked flames. Nikki Valentine, who was on the PAL Airlines flight, said passengers felt a “massive rumble” upon landing Saturday
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By KAREEM CHEHAYEB – Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s de facto leader said Sunday it could take up to four years to hold elections in Syria, and that he plans to dissolve his Islamist group that led the country’s insurgency at an anticipated national dialogue summit for the country. Ahmad al-Sharaa, who leads Hayat
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By AP BERLIN (AP) — Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk caused uproar after backing Germany’s far-right party in a major newspaper ahead of key parliamentary elections in the Western European country, leading to the resignation of the paper’s opinion editor in protest. Germany is to vote in an early election on Feb. 23 after Chancellor Olaf
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By SHEL RICKERT – Lincoln Journal Star, Neb. (TNS) Lincoln police arrested four people Friday night after a short chase following an SUV the four reportedly stole from a man earlier near a liquor store at 22nd and O streets. The man called police around 9:30 p.m. to report his SUV had been stolen by
Continue Reading By NEAL FRANKLIN – Lincoln Journal Star, Neb. (TNS) Ag Expo, 12.12 Jacob Hansen, CEO of ALA Engineering, explains how the company’s automated feed truck works during the Nebraska Ag Expo on Dec. 12 at Sandhills Global Event Center. Driving a feed truck on a farm means steering a 60,000-pound vehicle inches away from a
Continue Reading By Lincoln Journal Star, Neb. (TNS) The Lincoln Emergency Communications Center experienced technical difficulties Saturday morning which prevented it from receiving nonemergency calls for about an hour. While the call center could still receive 911 emergency calls, the nonemergency line was unavailable for over an hour starting around 8 a.m. The issue had to do
Continue Reading By SHEL RICKERT – Lincoln Journal Star, Neb. (TNS) Lincoln Electric System is in the process of implementing a battery storage system in the Haymarket to offer backup power during peak usage times or outages. The first-of-its-kind project, set to be finished in late 2025, involves large containers with 3-megawatt batteries that will be installed
Continue Reading By L. KENT WOLGAMOTT – Lincoln Journal Star, Neb. (TNS) Susan Longhenry, 12.11 Sheldon Museum of Art director Susan Longhenry is aiming to bring the community back to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln museum with new hours, traveling exhibitions and public programming. Shortly after she became director of the Sheldon Museum of Art in August 2023,
Continue Reading By ANDREW WEGLEY – Lincoln Journal Star, Neb. (TNS) She had already convinced a committee stacked with Republican lawmakers to back her attempt to make it easier and cheaper for Nebraskans to access government records, but now, Sen. Danielle Conrad needed to make the case to the rest of Nebraska’s Legislature. Conrad, a lifelong Democrat
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM – Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to implement the “toughest” anti-U.S. policy, state media reported Sunday, less than a month before Donald Trump takes office as U.S. president. Trump’s return to the White House raises prospects for high-profile diplomacy with North Korea. During
Continue Reading By Gretchen Teske – Quad City Times, Davenport, Iowa (TNS) When it comes to storing and moving water, firefighters around the world rely on products made by a company tucked away on 11th Street in Milan. Based at 1275 W. 11th Street in Milan, FOL-DA-TANK has been a Quad-Cities-based business since 1954, Keith Niebur said.
Continue Reading By TOM LOEWY and SARAH WATSON – Quad City Times, Davenport, Iowa (TNS) It’s been 19 months, or 581 days, since the west wall of the six-story apartment building at 324 Main St. in Davenport crumbled to the ground. The day was May 28, 2023. Roughly 13,944 hours have passed since the day a disaster
Continue Reading By Gretchen Teske – Quad City Times, Davenport, Iowa (TNS) Editor’s note: This story is part of a series that ran in Insight magazine looking at how several Iowa and Illinois companies use influencer marketing. John Deere has half-a-million new fans, and they’ve come from an unlikely source. The Moline-based agriculture giant is one of
Continue Reading By Kylie Cameron – The Wichita Eagle (TNS) Dec. 29—More than 80 miles of bikeways could be added to streets and shared-use paths in Wichita over the next 10 years, according to a draft of the city’s bike plan. Many of the paths will connect to existing bike lanes in the city. The bike paths
Continue Reading By Thomas Geyer – Quad City Times, Davenport, Iowa (TNS) A second member of a theft ring out of Ohio that allegedly came to Iowa to steal high-end purses from department stores in 2023 was booked Friday into the Scott County Jail. Lamaya Rahnae Winslow, 29, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was extradited from Kentucky where she
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By JOSH FUNK and JULIE WALKER – Associated Press Three firefighters and a dozen passengers were injured in Florida on Saturday when a fire truck with its lights flashing drove around rail crossing arms and into the path of a high-speed passenger train after waiting for another train to pass, according to video of the
Continue Reading By Amy Renee Leiker – The Wichita Eagle (TNS) Dec. 29—Looking for a place to dine out, shop for food or stay in the Wichita-area? You might consider visiting businesses that passed recent health inspections. Places that serve and sell food or offer lodging to the public are regularly inspected by the Kansas Department of
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By Jenna Wilson Missouri Western State University’s Law Enforcement Academy is seeing equipment upgrades and covering tuition fees for incoming cadets. MWSU intends to utilize $150,000 of leftover American Rescue Plan Act funds to provide tuition assistance to cadets who are currently or will be enrolling in its Law Enforcement Academy located at 4525 Downs
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By The Associated Press At least one Mega Millions player has plenty of dough to ring in the New Year after drawing the winning number. After three months without anyone winning the top prize in the lottery, a ticket worth an estimated $1.22 billion was sold in California for the drawing Friday night, according to
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By TOM NOUVIAN – Associated Press PARIS (AP) — At least three migrants died early Sunday while attempting to cross the English Channel to Britain from northern France, authorities said. The deaths were confirmed after an early morning rescue operation involving French emergency services and the navy’s “Dauphin” helicopter. Around 50 people were stranded in
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By AP HOUSTON (AP) — A strong storm system threatened to whip up tornadoes in parts of the U.S. Southeast on Sunday, a day after severe weather claimed at least two lives as twisters touched down in Texas and Mississippi. Strong storms moving across the Southeast are expected to continue producing “gusty, damaging winds,” hail
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By Cameron Montemayor Trail builders are making strides in development of a new and improved bike track for St. Joseph’s River Bluff Trails Park at Huston-Wyeth Park. Construction is now full speed ahead on the park’s new pump track and jump courses, a circuit of rolling hills and banked turns acting as a training course,
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By JOHN HANNA – Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republicans made claims about illegal voting by noncitizens a centerpiece of their 2024 campaign messaging and plan to push legislation in the new Congress requiring voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship. Yet there’s one place with a GOP supermajority where linking voting to citizenship
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG – Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A passenger jet burst into flames while landing at an airport in South Korea on Sunday, killing 179 people in one of the deadliest air disasters in that nation’s history. There were only two survivors, officials said. Video showed the plane
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By The Associated Press A Russian man arrested for allegedly running a travel agency for gay customers was found dead in custody in Moscow, rights group OVD-Info reported Sunday, amid a crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in Russia. According to OVD-Info, which tracks political arrests, Andrei Kotov — director of the “Men Travel” agency — faced
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By Charles Christian Most of us know the song, but relatively few realize the significance of the song, “12 Days of Christmas.” Originating from the 18th Century, the song lists different presents given by a “true love” during each day of Christmas. While the gifts do not seem very practical, except for maybe the five
Continue Reading By AP ISTANBUL (AP) — Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has said that he is willing to contribute to peace between Turks and Kurds, in a statement issued by the pro-Kurdish DEM party Sunday. “I possess the necessary competence and determination to contribute positively to the new
Continue Reading By Jared Strong – The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (TNS) Dec. 29—The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Drinking water in Cedar Rapids had one of its worst prolonged spikes of nitrate contamination this year amid a very wet spring and early summer that followed years of drought.
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By The Associated Press Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 people, was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally. Aliyev told Azerbaijani state television that the aircraft was hit by fire from the ground over Russia and rendered uncontrollable by electronic warfare. He
Continue Reading By JARED BARTON – Columbus Telegram, Neb. (TNS) Across Nebraska, renewable energy production such as wind turbines and solar farms has gained a lot of traction, and a recent grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will create even more energy. On Dec. 19, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture — and former Iowa governor — Tom
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