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Storms felled trees and created life-threatening conditions in the South, including in Jackson, Miss., where a crew cleared branches at the governor’s mansion near the state Capitol. A powerful storm system that battered the South and Midwest with heavy winds caused at least nine deaths and left thousands without power Saturday. Kentucky had four storm-related deaths as wind gusts of 60-to-80 miles per hour rolled through the state Friday, prompting Gov. Andy Beshear to declare a state of emergency.
Storms felled trees and created life-threatening conditions in the South, including in Jackson, Miss., where a crew cleared branches at the governor’s mansion near the state Capitol. A powerful storm system that battered the South and Midwest with heavy winds caused at least 10 deaths and left thousands without power Saturday. Kentucky had four storm-related deaths as wind gusts of 60-to-80 miles an hour rolled through the state Friday, prompting Gov. Andy Beshear to declare a state of emergency.
Walgreens Won’t Sell Abortion Pill in Some States
  + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Photo: Taylor Glascock for The Wall Street JournalMedication abortions accounted for 54% of abortions in the U.S. in 2020, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. said it won’t dispense the abortion pill in several states, including four where abortion is legal, as the company navigates the complicated landscape created after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The pharmacy chain said it intends to move forward with a federal certification process that will allow it to dispense mifepristone to customers from its bricks-and-mortar locations with a doctor’s prescription.
Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms are among the initiative’s participating apps. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children launched a tool Monday that allows young people to remove explicit images of themselves that appear online, or block such photos from being shared. The platform, known as Take It Down, allows young adults from anywhere in the world to submit an anonymous report about explicit or intimate images of themselves posted on certain online spaces. Young adults who are over 18 but appear in imagery taken when they were underage can also submit a report to have the images removed from certain platforms, according to the center, a nonprofit.
California Battered by Rain, Floods and Blizzards
  + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
California was hit with rain, floods, blizzards and colder-than-average temperatures Saturday as the remnants of a powerful winter storm swept across the state. Heavy snow and winds closed several roads in the California mountains, with some areas in the Sierra Nevada recording storm totals of up 4 to 5 feet of snow, according to the National Weather Service. Blizzard warnings remain in effect for the higher altitudes.
Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip ‘Dilbert,’ said people had misunderstood the context of his remarks. Multiple newspapers around the U.S. dropped Scott Adams’s long-running “Dilbert” comic strip after the cartoonist called Black Americans a “hate group” in a racist rant he posted online. The USA Today Network, which includes hundreds of newspapers, Cleveland’s Plain Dealer, the San Antonio Express-News, the Washington Post and other publications all said they would stop publishing “Dilbert,” which has poked fun at corporate drudgery for decades.
Actor Richard Belzer, best known for his role as the witty and acerbic Detective John Munch in “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” has died. He was 78 years old. Mr. Belzer died early Sunday at the winter home he shared with his family in France, according to his longtime friend Bill Scheft, who said he is acting as the family spokesman.
PepsiCo Recalls Starbucks Vanilla Frappuccino Bottles
  + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The bottled Frappuccino drinks being recalled by PepsiCo aren’t sold at Starbucks retail locations. PepsiCo Inc. has recalled more than 25,000 cases of a Starbucks drink over concerns glass might have gotten into some bottles, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A “foreign object” identified as glass may have been found in some Starbucks vanilla Frappuccino beverages that PepsiCo distributes and sells, the FDA notice said. No injuries have been reported.
The Labor Department said Packers Sanitation Services Inc. illegally employed teenagers. A food sanitation-service provider accused of hiring at least 102 children to work overnight shifts cleaning meatpacking plants in eight states has paid $1.5 million in penalties, the Labor Department said. Packers Sanitation Services Inc. illegally employed minors between the ages of 13 and 17 at 13 meatpacking facilities around the U.S., the federal agency said Friday.
An Italian eatery in New Jersey said its ban on children under age 10 will go into effect March 8. An Italian restaurant in New Jersey has served up a spicy meatball to some parents by banning children under the age of 10 from dining there. Nettie’s House of Spaghetti in Tinton Falls, N.J., shared its decision on social media Thursday, to mixed reviews. Some responses were positive, with comments empathizing over the extra work young customers can bring. Many were less supportive, saying the policy was unfair to well-behaved children and punished parents.
The Progress 82 cargo craft arrived at the space station in October last year. A Russian supply ship docked at the International Space Station has a coolant leak, but the incident poses no danger to the station’s crew, NASA officials said Saturday. Engineers at the Russian Mission Control Center outside Moscow recorded a depressurization in the coolant loop of the unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 82, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said.
Flint, Mich., Residents Are Under Boil-Water Advisory
  + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The cause of the water main break hasn’t yet been identified, officials said. Roughly 80,000 residents of Flint, Mich., are under a boil-water advisory this weekend as crews try to repair a damaged line in the city’s water system. The advisory was issued just before 11 a.m. Friday when Flint officials warned of low water pressure and said residents should filter and boil water.
A view of the American Airlines aircraft following the collision with a passenger shuttle bus at Los Angeles International Airport. Four people were hospitalized when a shuttle bus at Los Angeles International Airport collided with a plane owned by American Airlines Group Inc. Friday night, officials said. The American Airlines plane was being pulled by a tug vehicle to the overnight parking area when the collision occurred around 10 p.m. local time, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Federal authorities said two people planned to shoot up five substations that serve the Baltimore area. Federal authorities have charged a neo-Nazi leader in a plot to attack the Maryland power grid with a woman he met while in prison. Brandon Russell , 27 years old, and Sarah Clendaniel , 34, both face one charge of conspiring to destroy an energy facility, prosecutors said Monday. If convicted, they could spend up to 20 years in prison.
Tom Brady , the future Hall of Fame quarterback, announced his retirement for good this past week in an emotional video filmed on a sandy beach. Now, jars of beach sand said to be from the exact spot he filmed his retirement video are being auctioned online, with bidding for one nearly reaching six figures.
Extreme Cold Hits Northeast U.S.
  + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
An arctic mix of cold air and whipping winds created teeth-chattering conditions across the Northeast on Saturday, with wind chills pushing temperatures into the double-digits below zero and causing “frost quakes” in some places. Northern New England experienced the worst of the wind chills and severe cold, but the frigid temperatures extended to New York and other parts of the region as well. Temperatures were expected to warm up on Sunday.
Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog in the U.S., saw his shadow on Thursday, forecasting that it’s going to be a long, cold winter. The tradition dates back to the days of the ancient Romans, when people used hibernating animals, like hedgehogs, to predict when the weather would get warmer.
Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog in the U.S., will forecast on Thursday when winter will end. The tradition dates back to the days of the ancient Romans, when people used hibernating animals, like hedgehogs, to predict when the weather would get warmer.
Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog in the U.S., will forecast on Thursday when winter will end. The tradition dates back to the days of the ancient Romans, when people used hibernating animals, like hedgehogs, to predict when the weather would get warmer.
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Actress Lisa Loring , best known for portraying Wednesday Addams in the 1960s show “The Addams Family,” died Saturday. She was 64 years old. A representative for the family said she died surrounded by her family.
Amazon said the new charges are meant to help keep prices low and maintain consistent and fast deliveries. Amazon Prime members who order groceries online through Amazon Fresh will soon pay a lot more to get free delivery. Starting Feb. 28, online Amazon Fresh grocery orders of less than $150 will incur delivery fees, Amazon.com Inc. said in an email to Prime members.
Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, in May in New York. ABC News hosts Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes , who developed a romantic relationship while anchoring “GMA3,” will part ways with the network, the company said. “After several productive conversations with Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, about different options, we all agreed it’s best for everyone that they move on from ABC News,” said a company statement released Friday evening.
The Memphis Police Department on Saturday said it was shutting down the specialized Scorpion street-crime unit whose members included former officers charged in the death of Tyre Nichols . The move to disband the unit came a day after the city of Memphis, Tenn., released video footage of the Jan. 7 traffic stop that led to the death of Mr. Nichols. Authorities had warned the video would be brutal.
The sheriff of Shelby County, Tenn., relieved two deputies of duty Friday night after viewing footage of the traffic stop that led to the death of Tyre Nichols . The deputies arrived after Memphis police had subdued Mr. Nichols, Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr. said in a statement. But he launched an internal investigation amid concerns over their conduct, he said.
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