Fall gets its official start this weekend in the Northern Hemisphere. This year's autumnal equinox arrives on Saturday. But what does that mean? The Earth's axis is tilted at an angle as it travels …
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By MADDIE BURAKOFF
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9/22/23
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Across New York City, civil society groups and large philanthropies meet on the sidelines of the United Nations while world leaders gather at the annual General Assembly. Nonprofit organizations send …
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By THALIA BEATY
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9/22/23
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A United Methodist Church court has acquitted a California bishop of all charges in the first trial of one of the church’s bishops in nearly a century. Bishop Minerva Carcaño faced four charges of …
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By PETER SMITH
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9/22/23
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King Charles III has traveled to the southwestern French city of Bordeaux to focus on climate and the environment. The U.K. monarch and Queen Camilla will meet emergency workers and communities …
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By ALEX TURNBULL
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9/22/23
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Amazon’s Prime Video will begin showing adds during shows and movies early next year, joining other streaming services that have added different tiers of subscriptions. The company said Friday that …
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN
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9/22/23
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Like everywhere in the U.S., our area deals with aging infrastructure, including asphalt streets and their inevitable potholes. Recently, several city streets were approved by the Harrison City Council to receive a fresh layer of asphalt.
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By DONNA BRAYMER
dbraymer@harrisonar.gov
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9/22/23
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Boone County Sheriff Roy Martin regrets to announce that an inmate that was currently in custody for felony related offenses was found deceased in the jail around 11 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 20.
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9/22/23
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Newton County's Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) met Monday, morning, Sept. 11, at the Methodist Church Fellowship Hall in Jasper, and, again, the topic of the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse came up in discussions. A question was raised about the danger of fire at a time when an excessive number of visitors could conceivably block roads and otherwise hinder emergency services response times.
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By JEFF DEZORT
jeffd@newtoncountytimes.com
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9/22/23
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The Newton County Quorum Court passed a resolution at it Monday, Sept. 11, meeting authorizing the county judge to apply for a grant on behalf of the county circuit clerk.
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By JEFF DEZORT
jeffd@newtoncountytimes.com
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9/22/23
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MILAN (AP) — Rain forced more than one fashion house to scramble for indoor locations in Milan and fashionistas to find a way to move about the gridlocked Italian city on Friday without the threat …
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By COLLEEN BARRY
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9/22/23
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European Union antitrust enforcers have slapped Intel with a fresh $400 million fine in a long-running legal fight that the chipmaker appeared to have won last year. The European Commission imposed …
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Massachusetts has about 184,000 people on a waitlist for the state’s public housing. Yet a WBUR and ProPublica investigation found that nobody is living in nearly 2,300 state-funded apartments, …
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By TODD WALLACK AND CHRISTINE WILLMSEN, WBUR
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9/22/23
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Many baseball fans, especially older ones, originally fell in love with America’s pastime by listening to ballgames on AM radio. In fact, next month will mark the 100th anniversary of the first …
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By MIKE FITZPATRICK
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9/22/23
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British competition regulators has signaled that Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard is likely to receive antitrust approval. The Competition and …
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By KELVIN CHAN
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9/22/23
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Asian shares are mixed after another slump on Wall Street driven by expectations for U.S. interest rates to stay high well into next year. Hong Kong and Shanghai advanced while Tokyo, Seoul and …
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH
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9/22/23
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Denver Smith, of Jasper, will celebrate his 90th birthday Saturday, Sept. 23. A celebration will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Carroll Electric building in Jasper on his special day. Everyone is welcome to drop by and wish him a happy birthday!
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9/22/23
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A top official of upcoming international climate negotiations hopes to prove critics wrong and surprise them with a “course correction” for an ever-warming world. But don’t expect that big a …
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By SETH BORENSTEIN
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9/22/23
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A longshot Republican candidate for Missouri governor and his supporters describe his use of a flamethrower at a recent “Freedom Fest” event outside St. Louis as no big deal. They say that after …
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By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JOHN HANNA
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9/22/23
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