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NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is introducing some of its most radical rules next season, adopting a pitch clock and limiting defensive shifts after concluding modern analytics created a slower, less entertaining sport.
The decisions were made Friday by the sport’s 11-man competition committee over the unanimous... | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/ap-mlb-adopts-pitch-clock-shift-limits-bigger-bases-for-2023/ | 2022-09-21T10:34:18Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/ap-mlb-adopts-pitch-clock-shift-limits-bigger-bases-for-2023/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is ready to voluntarily accept the formation of a minor league union, a key step that will lead to collective bargaining and possibly a strike threat at the start of next season.
The Major League Baseball Players Association launched the unionization drive on Aug. 28 and told MLB o... | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/ap-mlb-prepared-to-voluntarily-recognize-minor-league-union/ | 2022-09-21T10:34:26Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/ap-mlb-prepared-to-voluntarily-recognize-minor-league-union/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The level of online betting activity on Thursday night’s NFL kickoff game surged 77% over the level from last year’s opener, according to a company that most of the legal U.S. sports betting industry uses to verify that its customers are where they say they are.
Data released Friday by GeoCom... | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/ap-online-bets-surge-as-nfl-kicks-off-indicating-a-busy-year/ | 2022-09-21T10:34:40Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/ap-online-bets-surge-as-nfl-kicks-off-indicating-a-busy-year/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):
11:55 p.m.
Carlos Alcaraz has advanced to the U.S. Open final by beating Frances Tiafoe 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-3.
The 19-year-old from Spain will try to join 1990 champion Pete Sampras, who was also 19, as the only teenagers to win ... | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/ap-ram-salisbury-repeat-in-mens-doubles-us-open-updates/ | 2022-09-21T10:34:48Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/ap-ram-salisbury-repeat-in-mens-doubles-us-open-updates/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams’ honeymoon from their Super Bowl championship didn’t even last until the first Sunday of the next regular season.
Their 31-10 thrashing from the Buffalo Bills on Thursday night was a brutal reminder that last season’s title — and even the last half-decade of success under Sean Mc... | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/ap-rams-need-improvement-everywhere-after-blowout-loss-to-bills/ | 2022-09-21T10:34:55Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/ap-rams-need-improvement-everywhere-after-blowout-loss-to-bills/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ukraine’s national basketball team gathered this summer, tasked with lifting the spirits of those back home in a war-torn country.
Turns out, it was the other way around.
A long summer slate of games — exhibitions and World Cup qualifying games leading up to the ongoing European championships — didn’t start well for Uk... | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/ap-ukraine-players-amid-war-drawing-inspiration-from-homeland/ | 2022-09-21T10:35:04Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/ap-ukraine-players-amid-war-drawing-inspiration-from-homeland/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SHREVEPORT, La (KMSS/KTAL) – After a week two full of surprises, we head into week three of Texas and Arkansas games, while the non-district action continues in Louisiana in week two. Wesley Boone has a dominant four game lead in our KTAL Sports pick ’em contest. We also have some new faces in our KTAL Sports Power Ran... | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/local-sports/nbc-6-blitz/nbc6-friday-night-blitz-week-3-preview-predictions/ | 2022-09-21T10:35:26Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/local-sports/nbc-6-blitz/nbc6-friday-night-blitz-week-3-preview-predictions/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FRISCO, TX (Silver Star Nation) – It’s being described by some as an epic rematch, Tom Brady versus Dak Prescott in a repeat of the 2021 season opener.
This time the game is the 2022 season opener and it is being played Sunday night at AT&T Stadium.
Cowboys fans may remember the painful walk off field goal that gave th... | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/nfl/silver-star-nation/mickey-cowboys-dak-ready-to-play/ | 2022-09-21T10:35:34Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/nfl/silver-star-nation/mickey-cowboys-dak-ready-to-play/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The start of fall, also known as the Autumnal Equinox, is less than two weeks away. However, Mother Nature is about to tease us with fall temperatures next week. But for the weekend there is heat and a chance for isolated to widely scattered showers and maybe a few thunderstorms.
Low-pressure southeast of us, which bro... | https://www.ktalnews.com/weather/an-early-taste-of-autumn-is-not-far-away/ | 2022-09-21T10:35:40Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/weather/an-early-taste-of-autumn-is-not-far-away/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ferrari and Lamborghini are among the most recognizable Italian automakers today, but before either existed another firm set standards for Italian engineering excellence. Now part of California’s Nethercutt Collection, this 1928 Isotta Fraschini Type 8A Landaulet is a testament to that bygone automaker. Nethercutt Vice... | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/1928-isotta-fraschini-brings-prewar-italian-luxury-to-jay-lenos-garage/ | 2022-09-21T10:36:45Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/1928-isotta-fraschini-brings-prewar-italian-luxury-to-jay-lenos-garage/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There’s a new king in the pickup universe and it has nothing to do with big towing numbers or horsepower.
On Wednesday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) announced that the 2022 Toyota Tundra crew cab earned a Top Safety Pick+ award.
The Tundra is the only 2022 pickup truck to earn that distinction, and... | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/2022-toyota-tundra-achieves-best-iihs-safety-rating-among-pickups/ | 2022-09-21T10:36:52Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/2022-toyota-tundra-achieves-best-iihs-safety-rating-among-pickups/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Apple just turned its smartwatch and iPhone into automotive safety device.
On Wednesday during an event to debut the iPhone 14, Apple announced automotive crash detection for the Apple Watch Series 8, new Watch SE with WatchOS 9, and iPhone 14 with iOS 16.
Hardware changes for the Series 8 watch that enable crash detec... | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/apple-iphone-14-and-watch-series-8-get-car-crash-detection/ | 2022-09-21T10:37:00Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/apple-iphone-14-and-watch-series-8-get-car-crash-detection/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Seven years after the Volkswagen diesel scandal began, emissions “defeat devices” are still a problem, but it’s mostly aftermarket companies that are drawing the attention of regulators.
The EPA recently announced the levying of millions of dollars in fines against one company, and potential fines for another, for sell... | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/epa-cracks-down-on-companies-selling-aftermarket-diesel-defeat-devices-with-fines-in-the-millions/ | 2022-09-21T10:37:08Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/epa-cracks-down-on-companies-selling-aftermarket-diesel-defeat-devices-with-fines-in-the-millions/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Contrary to popular belief, Enzo Ferrari didn’t always intend for his race cars to be red.
When he first established the Scuderia Ferrari race team, he originally chose yellow as a signature color. The bright hue, together with blue, appear prominently on the coat of arms of his Modena birthplace, which is also the hom... | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/ferrari-f1-cars-to-adopt-some-yellow-for-the-2022-italian-grand-prix/ | 2022-09-21T10:37:15Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/ferrari-f1-cars-to-adopt-some-yellow-for-the-2022-italian-grand-prix/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KTM, an Austrian firm most widely recognized for its motorcycles, has revealed its first four-wheeled model designed for the road.
The new X-Bow GT-XR, which was shown on Tuesday, traces its roots to KTM’s original X-Bow track car launched in 2008, but is more closely related to the X-Bow GT2 race car launched in 2020.... | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/ktms-first-road-car-is-the-493-hp-x-bow-gt-xr/ | 2022-09-21T10:37:22Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/ktms-first-road-car-is-the-493-hp-x-bow-gt-xr/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It seemed like an oversight from the start. Why offer a sports car without a manual transmission from the get-go if plans call for one later?
When Toyota released A90-generation Supra for 2020 with a sizable assist from BMW, the car came exclusively with a very capable ZF 8-speed automatic. While that transmission has ... | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/review-2023-toyota-gr-supra-manual-unlocks-new-levels-of-sports-car-fun-2/ | 2022-09-21T10:37:30Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/review-2023-toyota-gr-supra-manual-unlocks-new-levels-of-sports-car-fun-2/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It seemed like an oversight from the start. Why offer a sports car without a manual transmission from the get-go if plans call for one later?
When Toyota released A90-generation Supra for 2020 with a sizable assist from BMW, the car came exclusively with a very capable ZF 8-speed automatic. While that transmission has ... | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/review-2023-toyota-gr-supra-manual-unlocks-new-levels-of-sports-car-fun/ | 2022-09-21T10:37:37Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/review-2023-toyota-gr-supra-manual-unlocks-new-levels-of-sports-car-fun/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dutch startup Lightyear on Tuesday announced a roughly $80 million investment the firm said will help spur development of a mass-market solar-assisted electric car.
Lightyear in June revealed that in production form its Lightyear One will be instead called Lightyear 0. That model already incorporates game-changing aero... | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/solar-car-maker-high-volume-lightyear-2-international-expansion-spurred-with-new-investment/ | 2022-09-21T10:37:44Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/solar-car-maker-high-volume-lightyear-2-international-expansion-spurred-with-new-investment/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE), the technology offshoot of the Williams Formula 1 team, used this week’s Low Carbon Vehicle Show in the U.K. to present the EVR, a modular electric-vehicle platform designed specifically for hypercar applications.
The company in 2021 presented a similar platform known as the EVX, wh... | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/williams-engineering-outfit-shows-off-2200-plus-hp-modular-ev-platform-for-hypercars/ | 2022-09-21T10:37:52Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/automotive/internet-brands/williams-engineering-outfit-shows-off-2200-plus-hp-modular-ev-platform-for-hypercars/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bruce Springsteen’s handwritten set lists and a favorite guitar are among the marquee items that will make a cross-country trip for a museum exhibit this fall.
The Grammy Museum announced Wednesday that Bruce Springsteen Live! will open at the Grammy Museum L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles on Oct. 1... | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-bruce-springsteens-artifacts-coming-to-grammy-museum/ | 2022-09-21T10:37:59Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-bruce-springsteens-artifacts-coming-to-grammy-museum/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s media regulator demanded Wednesday that Netflix and other steaming services adhere to this majority Muslim county’s “societal values” — a veiled reference to programs featuring members of the LGBTQ community.
The statement came a day after Gulf Arab countries asked Netflix to remove “offensive cont... | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-egypt-demands-netflix-others-adhere-to-societal-values/ | 2022-09-21T10:38:06Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-egypt-demands-netflix-others-adhere-to-societal-values/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — With Janet Jackson resplendent in a black trouser suit on his front row and humongous hats on many of his models, Christian Siriano opened New York Fashion Week at the former townhouse of Elizabeth Taylor, rolling out sexy, slinky looks Wednesday to go with his trademark ballgowns.
He was inspired by Ta... | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-janet-jackson-front-row-at-sirianos-glam-fashion-week-show/ | 2022-09-21T10:38:14Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-janet-jackson-front-row-at-sirianos-glam-fashion-week-show/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHICAGO (AP) — Singer R. Kelly’s former business manager told jurors Wednesday he believed the singer’s denials of sexual misconduct that emerged against his boss, adding that he came to understand that fending off false claims was a cost of doing business for a superstar.
Derrell McDavid, a co-defendant at Kelly’s chi... | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-judge-music-writer-need-not-testify-at-r-kelly-trial/ | 2022-09-21T10:38:21Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-judge-music-writer-need-not-testify-at-r-kelly-trial/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Louisiana-native Lainey Wilson is having a breakout year as she tops the Country Music Association Awards nominations in her first year as a nominee, earning nods in six categories including album of the year, female vocalist of the year and song of the year.
Wilson is only the fourth artist in ... | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-lainey-wilson-leads-cma-awards-nominations-in-her-1st-year/ | 2022-09-21T10:38:29Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-lainey-wilson-leads-cma-awards-nominations-in-her-1st-year/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Movie theater operator Cineworld Group LLC has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. as it deals with billions of dollars in debt and lower-than-expected attendance at screenings.
“The pandemic was an incredibly difficult time for our business, with the enforced closure of cinemas and huge disruption t... | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-movie-chain-cineworld-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy/ | 2022-09-21T10:38:36Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-movie-chain-cineworld-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The criminal case against the man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie involves so much potential evidence that prosecutors need more time to review it, the chief prosecutor said Wednesday.
District Attorney Jason Schmidt of Chautauqua County in western New York said his office is reviewing... | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-prosecutors-in-rushdie-attack-want-delay-to-review-evidence/ | 2022-09-21T10:38:43Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-prosecutors-in-rushdie-attack-want-delay-to-review-evidence/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has postponed a meeting of senior governmental advisers known as the Privy Council after doctors advised her to rest, Buckingham Palace said.
The council had been scheduled to meet virtually on Wednesday, a day after the 96-year-old monarch had a full day of activities as she presided o... | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-queen-elizabeth-ii-postpones-meeting-of-privy-council/ | 2022-09-21T10:38:51Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-queen-elizabeth-ii-postpones-meeting-of-privy-council/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rican superstar Ricky Martin filed a lawsuit Wednesday against his nephew that accused him of extortion, malicious persecution, abuse of law and damages — stemming from false allegations of sexual abuse.
Martin’s lawyers said the claim by the nephew, which he has since recanted, has ... | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-ricky-martin-sues-nephew-alleges-million-dollar-losses/ | 2022-09-21T10:38:58Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-ricky-martin-sues-nephew-alleges-million-dollar-losses/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON (AP) — The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s children start the academic year at a new school on Thursday after the family traded the bustle of central London for the slower pace of life outside the capital.
In preparation for the first day of classes, the palace released photos of Prince George, Princess Charlott... | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-royal-children-start-new-academic-year-at-school-in-windsor/ | 2022-09-21T10:39:06Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-royal-children-start-new-academic-year-at-school-in-windsor/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — After three years as the festival director of the New York Film Festival, Eugene Hernandez has been tapped to lead the Sundance Film Festival.
The Sundance Institute announced Wednesday that Hernandez will become the festival’s fourth director in its nearly four-decade history, in addition to heading th... | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-sundance-film-festival-names-eugene-hernandez-director/ | 2022-09-21T10:39:13Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-sundance-film-festival-names-eugene-hernandez-director/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ATLANTA (AP) — Most contractors told them they would tear it down. A two-story five-bedroom Victorian built around 1900, it was abandoned and collapsing, with vines reaching its rafters. Elegant features were scavenged long ago. The house’s place in American history was at risk of disappearing.
An Atlanta couple bought... | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-this-old-house-restoration-honors-black-atlanta-postmaster/ | 2022-09-21T10:39:21Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-this-old-house-restoration-honors-black-atlanta-postmaster/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After two editions much diminished by the pandemic, the 47th Toronto International Film Festival is set to roar back to life beginning Thursday with a lineup crowded with much-anticipated titles, including Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” and Gina Prince-Bythewood’s... | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-toronto-fest-roars-back-to-life-with-spielberg-knives-out/ | 2022-09-21T10:39:28Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-toronto-fest-roars-back-to-life-with-spielberg-knives-out/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A murder-for-hire trial involving former stars of the reality TV show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” got underway in St. Louis, where prosecutors allege that James “Tim” Norman arranged his nephew’s killing because he needed money from a life insurance policy that he took out on the victim.
Norman’s attorn... | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-trial-begins-in-killing-of-miss-sweetie-pies-grandson/ | 2022-09-21T10:39:36Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/entertainment-news/ap-trial-begins-in-killing-of-miss-sweetie-pies-grandson/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For my second Congressional interview this week we stay up north for a visit with Laura Jones, the Democratic candidate un CD08, which is open this year following the retirement announcement of Rep. Kevin Brady. Jones is a small business owner who grew up in Houston before moving with her husband to Cold Spring, on the... | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=107041 | 2022-09-21T10:39:39Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=107041 | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that required coverage of an HIV prevention drug under the Affordable Care Act violates a Texas employer’s religious beliefs and undercut the broader system that determines which preventive drugs are covered in the U.S.
The ruling was handed down by U.S. District Jud... | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/ap-judge-rules-against-required-coverage-of-hiv-prevention-drug/ | 2022-09-21T10:39:43Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/ap-judge-rules-against-required-coverage-of-hiv-prevention-drug/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ask your questions, get some answers.
Harris County voters will decide in November whether to approve a bond package totaling $1.2 billion, with the vast majority aimed at road construction. On Monday, the county [began] a series of 24 community engagement meetings to share information and gather input about where the ... | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=107064 | 2022-09-21T10:39:47Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=107064 | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ATLANTA (AP) — Nick Carusillo died when he was hit by multiple vehicles on a Georgia interstate, just days after he was abruptly discharged from an addiction treatment center. Now his parents hope a substantial jury verdict in their favor will prompt change that helps others suffering from mental illness and substance ... | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/ap-jury-awards-77m-in-suit-against-addiction-treatment-center/ | 2022-09-21T10:39:51Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/ap-jury-awards-77m-in-suit-against-addiction-treatment-center/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
This is a bad ruling, and it needs to be appealed.
A Texas district judge has dismissed a professional misconduct lawsuit against a top aide of Attorney General Ken Paxton seeking to discipline them for their effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Milam County Judge John W. Youngblood ruled last week that h... | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=107093 | 2022-09-21T10:39:54Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=107093 | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has approved a recommendation to end the mandatory wearing of face masks outdoors across the country more than two years after it was imposed at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, top officials said Wednesday.
The Philippines and Myanmar are the ... | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/ap-philippines-ending-compulsory-mask-wearing-outdoors/ | 2022-09-21T10:39:58Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/ap-philippines-ending-compulsory-mask-wearing-outdoors/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GENEVA (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases fell everywhere in the world last week by about 12%, according to the World Health Organization’s latest weekly review of the pandemic issued Wednesday.
The U.N. health agency reported that there were just under 4.2 million new infections last week and about 13,700 deat... | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/ap-who-covid-cases-drop-everywhere-but-pandemic-not-over/ | 2022-09-21T10:40:13Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/ap-who-covid-cases-drop-everywhere-but-pandemic-not-over/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The CDC has approved new protection against the latest COVID-19 variant — and it’s already on its way to Louisiana.
“You know, we still see a number of patients in our EDs and our emergency rooms coming in,” said Dr. Aldo Russo, medical director at Ochsner.
Doctors across the state say this... | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/coronavirus/bivalent-vaccine-to-be-available-in-louisiana-before-end-of-september/ | 2022-09-21T10:40:20Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/coronavirus/bivalent-vaccine-to-be-available-in-louisiana-before-end-of-september/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DESOTO PARISH, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The DeSoto Parish Police Jury announced Tuesday that the animal shelter is operating on a limited basis due to the spread of COVID among shelter staff.
According to DeSoto Parish Animal Services, three of the five staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. They say the shelter wil... | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/coronavirus/covid-spread-hits-desoto-animal-shelter-staff/ | 2022-09-21T10:40:26Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/coronavirus/covid-spread-hits-desoto-animal-shelter-staff/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — LifeShare Blood Centers are welcoming back donors who have been unable to give blood because of the restrictions imposed by the FDA.
Donors who lived in parts of Europe and the United Kingdom during the 1980s could not donate blood in the U.S. because of the risks associated with Creutzfie... | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/fda-changes-allow-thousands-to-donate-blood-again/ | 2022-09-21T10:40:39Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/fda-changes-allow-thousands-to-donate-blood-again/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Wednesday struck down Michigan’s 1931 anti-abortion law, months after suspending it, the latest development over abortion rights in a state where the issue is being argued in courtrooms and, possibly, at the ballot box.
The law, which was long dormant before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned R... | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/judge-strikes-down-1931-michigan-law-criminalizing-abortion/ | 2022-09-21T10:40:46Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/judge-strikes-down-1931-michigan-law-criminalizing-abortion/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MANSFIELD, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – City officials are advising citizens that a water main suffered a major rupture Wednesday evening.
They say a large number of customers and businesses will experience low or no water pressure while crews work to repair the issue. The city hopes to have the water pressure restored within the... | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/mansfield-water-system-sustains-major-rupture/ | 2022-09-21T10:40:53Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/mansfield-water-system-sustains-major-rupture/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The LSU Health Shreveport strike team will be offering monkeypox vaccines at this weekend’s Pride in the Park event.
The event will take place Saturday, Sept. 10, from 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m.
Those eligible for the vaccine include:
- Gay/bisexual men or transgender people who are sexuall... | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/monkeypox-vaccines-available-in-shreveport-this-weekend/ | 2022-09-21T10:41:01Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/monkeypox-vaccines-available-in-shreveport-this-weekend/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) — Sadly, suicide is the second leading cause of death for youth in the United States. In order to create awareness and strengthen the fight against suicide, the entire month of September is Suicide Prevention Month.
Karen Abrahams never thought her son, Alex was struggling mentally and experienc... | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/mother-speaks-out-after-losing-son-to-suicide-hopes-to-save-more-lives/ | 2022-09-21T10:41:08Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/mother-speaks-out-after-losing-son-to-suicide-hopes-to-save-more-lives/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that required coverage of an HIV prevention drug under the Affordable Care Act violates a Texas employer’s religious beliefs and undercut the broader system that determines which preventive drugs are covered in the U.S.
The ruling was handed down by Fort Worth-ba... | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/texas-judge-rules-hiv-drug-mandate-violates-employer-religious-rights/ | 2022-09-21T10:41:16Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/health/texas-judge-rules-hiv-drug-mandate-violates-employer-religious-rights/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon shot into the spotlight on Monday after granting former President Trump’s request for an independent mediator to examine materials the FBI recovered during a search at his Mar-a-Lago residence last month.
Cannon, who was appointed by Trump in 2020, made the divisive decision after h... | https://www.ktalnews.com/hill-politics/five-things-to-know-about-aileen-m-cannon-the-judge-who-granted-trump-a-special-master/ | 2022-09-21T10:41:23Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/hill-politics/five-things-to-know-about-aileen-m-cannon-the-judge-who-granted-trump-a-special-master/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(Loving Living Local)- Host, Susan Kirton was joined today by Memorial City Hall Performance Center Manager, Glenn Barnhart, to discuss their upcoming season of shows and how you can be involved.
This season’s line-up will include performances by Bill Haley and The Comets, Dale Watson and his Lonestars, Ruthie Foster, ... | https://www.ktalnews.com/lovinglivinglocalnbc6/sponsored-content-new-shows-at-the-memorial-city-hall-performance-center/ | 2022-09-21T10:41:31Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/lovinglivinglocalnbc6/sponsored-content-new-shows-at-the-memorial-city-hall-performance-center/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — As part of a campaign dubbed “Your State Sucks,” popular party game Cards Against Humanity says it is donating 100% of its profits from orders placed in 22 states to the National Network of Abortion Funds.
The game designers announced the campaign early last month following the Supreme Court... | https://www.ktalnews.com/money-matters/cards-against-humanity-donating-profits-from-orders-in-22-states-to-abortion-fund/ | 2022-09-21T10:41:39Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/money-matters/cards-against-humanity-donating-profits-from-orders-in-22-states-to-abortion-fund/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has acquired a previously unknown ancient papyrus bearing a Hebrew inscription dated to around 2,700 years ago that had long been in possession of a Montana resident, the country’s antiquities authority said Wednesday.
The scrap of papyrus — scarcely larger than a postage stamp with four lines o... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/ap-israel-acquires-papyrus-with-hebrew-inscription-from-montana/ | 2022-09-21T10:41:46Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/ap-israel-acquires-papyrus-with-hebrew-inscription-from-montana/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — The 31,000-year-old skeleton of a young adult found in a cave in Indonesia that is missing its left foot and part of its left leg reveal the oldest known evidence of an amputation, according to a new study.
Scientists say the amputation was performed when the person was a child — and that the “patient” ... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/ap-one-legged-stone-age-skeleton-may-show-oldest-amputation/ | 2022-09-21T10:41:53Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/ap-one-legged-stone-age-skeleton-may-show-oldest-amputation/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BANGKOK (AP) — An Irrawaddy dolphin calf who was rescued and nursed day and night for weeks by veterinarians and volunteers after his rescue from a tidal pool on Thailand’s shore has died despite all their efforts, officials who were providing emergency care for the animal said Wednesday.
The baby was nicknamed Paradon... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/ap-rescued-irrawaddy-dolphin-calf-dies-despite-weeks-of-care/ | 2022-09-21T10:42:01Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/ap-rescued-irrawaddy-dolphin-calf-dies-despite-weeks-of-care/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TOKYO (AP) — Asian benchmarks mostly rose Thursday, as investor optimism got a perk from a rally on Wall Street that’s on track to break a three-week losing streak.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 surged nearly 2.0% in morning trading to 27,964.16. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.8% to 6,783.80. South Korea’s Kospi edged... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-asian-shares-decline-on-wall-street-losses-rate-worries/ | 2022-09-21T10:42:08Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-asian-shares-decline-on-wall-street-losses-rate-worries/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BEIJING (AP) — China’s trade weakened in August as high energy prices, inflation and anti-virus measures weighed on global and Chinese consumer demand, while imports of Russian oil and gas surged.
Exports rose 7% over a year ago to $314.9 billion, decelerating from July’s 18% expansion, customs data showed Wednesday. I... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-chinas-export-growth-sinks-in-august-imports-shrink/ | 2022-09-21T10:42:23Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-chinas-export-growth-sinks-in-august-imports-shrink/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Give our country $100 billion — or stop lecturing us about making money from fossil fuels.
That was the message East Timor President and Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos-Horta had Wednesday for those raising environmental concerns about his nation’s proposal to build a new gas-processi... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-east-timor-president-pushes-back-on-environmental-criticism/ | 2022-09-21T10:42:31Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-east-timor-president-pushes-back-on-environmental-criticism/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries should set a price cap on Russian natural gas and seek a “solidarity contribution” from European oil and gas companies making extraordinary profits as the war in Ukraine drives up energy costs, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday.
With winter approa... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-eu-wants-price-cap-on-russian-gas-energy-companies-to-pay/ | 2022-09-21T10:42:38Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-eu-wants-price-cap-on-russian-gas-energy-companies-to-pay/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve will need to continue lifting its short-term interest rate to a level that restricts economic growth and keep it there for an extended period, a top Fed official said Wednesday.
In her remarks to a banking industry conference, Fed Vice Chair Lael Brainard echoed similarly tough com... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-feds-brainard-rates-to-rise-higher-stay-elevated-longer/ | 2022-09-21T10:42:46Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-feds-brainard-rates-to-rise-higher-stay-elevated-longer/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev on Wednesday, holding a minute of silence for the former Soviet leader who paved the way for German reunification 32 years ago.
Flags at the parliament’s Reichstag building in Berlin were lowered to half-staff as lawmakers opened the day’s session, on... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-german-parliament-honors-gorbachev-who-enabled-unification/ | 2022-09-21T10:42:54Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-german-parliament-honors-gorbachev-who-enabled-unification/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government on Wednesday announced a carrot-and-stick drive to cut public sector energy use by 10% this year, linking compliance to funding and urging state employees to switch off lights and appliances when leaving the office.
Environment and Energy Minister Costas Skrekas said Greece wan... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-greece-tells-state-workers-to-save-power-seeks-10-cut/ | 2022-09-21T10:43:01Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-greece-tells-state-workers-to-save-power-seeks-10-cut/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ATLANTA (AP) — Six office towers and an underground mall in downtown Atlanta are back in the hands of their lenders after the owner defaulted on a loan, a foreclosure that points to continuing uncertainty in the market for office space since the pandemic prompted much of America’s workforce to work from home.
The Atlan... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-iconic-part-of-atlanta-skyline-foreclosed-in-loan-default/ | 2022-09-21T10:43:09Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-iconic-part-of-atlanta-skyline-foreclosed-in-loan-default/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MODENA, Italy (AP) — As far-right leader Giorgia Meloni ’s push to become Italy’s first female premier gathers momentum, the country’s fractured left is offering voters a contrasting style of feminist politics.
Elly Schlein, a 37-year-old U.S.-Italian national who grew up in Switzerland, cut her political organizing ch... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-italys-fractured-left-taps-young-feminist-to-lift-campaign/ | 2022-09-21T10:43:17Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-italys-fractured-left-taps-young-feminist-to-lift-campaign/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON (AP) — Liz Truss’s new Cabinet is Britain’s most diverse ever, with women serving as prime minister and deputy prime minister and Black and South Asian politicians filling many of the top jobs.
While they come from different backgrounds, the new ministers share Truss’ small-state, free-market economic views and ... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-new-uk-cabinet-is-diverse-in-makeup-and-solidly-on-the-right/ | 2022-09-21T10:43:24Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-new-uk-cabinet-is-diverse-in-makeup-and-solidly-on-the-right/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s new prime minister has pledged to rebuild the economy and “ride out the storm” gathering over the country, but Liz Truss faces a daunting job.
She inherits an ailing economy on the brink of a potentially long recession, with record inflation that’s forecast to worsen in coming months and million... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-new-uk-prime-minister-liz-truss-inherits-an-economic-storm/ | 2022-09-21T10:43:32Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-new-uk-prime-minister-liz-truss-inherits-an-economic-storm/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday threatened to completely cut energy supplies to the West if it tries to cap prices of Russian exports. He also vowed to press on with Moscow’s military action in Ukraine until it achieves its goals.
Speaking at an annual economic forum in the far-eastern port ... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-putin-mocks-west-says-russia-will-press-on-in-ukraine/ | 2022-09-21T10:43:39Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-putin-mocks-west-says-russia-will-press-on-in-ukraine/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to meet next week in Uzbekistan for talks that could signal warming relations between two powers that are increasingly facing off against the West.
The meeting at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization — a political, economic and security for... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-putin-xi-to-meet-at-in-uzbekistan-next-week-official-says/ | 2022-09-21T10:43:47Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-putin-xi-to-meet-at-in-uzbekistan-next-week-official-says/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BERLIN (AP) — Germany is well-placed to get through this winter with enough energy thanks to efforts to shore up supplies in the face of Russian gas delivery cuts, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday, dismissing criticism from the opposition.
Center-right opposition leader Friedrich Merz charged in parliament that Sc... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-scholz-germany-well-placed-on-energy-to-get-through-winter/ | 2022-09-21T10:43:54Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-scholz-germany-well-placed-on-energy-to-get-through-winter/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pulling Distance Learning Tools Into In-Person Classes
Anita Cheng describes some specific ways college instructors can use online methods developed during the pandemic to enhance classroom teaching and learning.
My calendar has a note on March 19, 2020, that says, “CUNY online model.” On that day, the City University ... | https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2022/09/21/using-online-methods-developed-during-covid-improve-person-classes-opinion | 2022-09-21T10:44:02Z | insidehighered.com | control | https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2022/09/21/using-online-methods-developed-during-covid-improve-person-classes-opinion | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Shelling resumed near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, with the warring sides trading blame again on Wednesday, a day after the U.N. atomic watchdog agency pressed for a safe zone there to prevent a catastrophe.
Russian forces fired rockets and heavy artillery on the city of Nikopol, on ... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-shelling-goes-on-near-ukraine-nuclear-plant-despite-risks/ | 2022-09-21T10:44:02Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-shelling-goes-on-near-ukraine-nuclear-plant-despite-risks/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Starbucks said Wednesday it will reinstate seven employees who were fired in February after leading an effort to unionize their Memphis store.
The seven will get their jobs back after the Seattle-based coffee giant lost an appeal of a lower court’s order to reinstate them.
Starbucks said the employees violated company ... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-starbucks-loses-appeal-will-rehire-7-fired-memphis-workers/ | 2022-09-21T10:44:09Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-starbucks-loses-appeal-will-rehire-7-fired-memphis-workers/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
This month’s episode of the Pulse podcast features Kimberly Timpf, director of impact at Vector Solutions. In a conversation with Rodney B. Murray, host of The Pulse, Timpf discusses Vector’s AlcoholEdu program, which provides training aimed at preventing risky drinking and other drug use. Find out more at Rod’s Pulse ... | https://www.insidehighered.com/audio/2022/09/21/kimberly-timpf-vector-solutions | 2022-09-21T10:44:12Z | insidehighered.com | control | https://www.insidehighered.com/audio/2022/09/21/kimberly-timpf-vector-solutions | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — Target is dropping the mandatory retirement age for its CEO, allowing Chief Executive Brian Cornell to stay on for three more years.
Cornell, 63, would have passed the age of 65 in that span.
Cornell took the helm at Target in 2014 when the discounter was grappling with a major data breach that hurt its... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-target-drops-mandatory-ceo-retirement-age-cornell-to-stay/ | 2022-09-21T10:44:16Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-target-drops-mandatory-ceo-retirement-age-cornell-to-stay/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Virtual reality can be a tough sell for businesses outside the tech bubble. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Münster’s Sebastian Hohenberg explains why that might change. Hohenberg is a full professor in the school of business and economics at Münster, in Germany. A transcript of this podcast can be found ... | https://www.insidehighered.com/audio/2022/09/21/virtual-reality-can-boost-firms%E2%80%99-new-product-development | 2022-09-21T10:44:22Z | insidehighered.com | control | https://www.insidehighered.com/audio/2022/09/21/virtual-reality-can-boost-firms%E2%80%99-new-product-development | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LONDON (AP) — Newly installed U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss told Parliament on Wednesday that she would tackle Britain’s “very serious” energy crisis while still slashing taxes, ruling out imposing a windfall levy on oil companies to pay for her plans to offset the soaring cost of heating and electricity.
Truss rebuffe... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-uk-leader-truss-holds-1st-cabinet-meeting-amid-energy-crisis/ | 2022-09-21T10:44:24Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-uk-leader-truss-holds-1st-cabinet-meeting-amid-energy-crisis/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.
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Innovative Fundraising
Looking for Great Ideas
On Tuesday I had the chance to speak to a graduate ... | https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/innovative-fundraising | 2022-09-21T10:44:32Z | insidehighered.com | control | https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/innovative-fundraising | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — UPS plans to hire more than 100,000 workers to help handle the holiday rush this season, in line with hiring the previous two years.
Holiday season volumes usually start rising in October and remain high into January. While online shopping has slowed from the height of the pandemic, it’s still well abov... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-ups-to-hire-more-than-100000-workers-for-the-holidays/ | 2022-09-21T10:44:31Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-ups-to-hire-more-than-100000-workers-for-the-holidays/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHNT) — Nearly 500 pounds of beef jerky products made by a Knoxville, Tennessee, company are being recalled over concerns of listeria contamination.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the recall announced on Sept. 6 affects products made... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/consumer-alerts/500-lbs-of-beef-jerky-recalled-over-listeria-concerns/ | 2022-09-21T10:44:39Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/consumer-alerts/500-lbs-of-beef-jerky-recalled-over-listeria-concerns/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Just Explain It to Me!
Breaking down notoriously confusing, perplexing and annoying systems and practices in higher education
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Why Can’t We Spend the Endowment?
All these tantalizing millions sit in those accounts, but we still might have to cut the budget? Huh?
As we eagerly await autumn’s cooler temperatures, ... | https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-explain-it-me/why-can%E2%80%99t-we-spend-endowment | 2022-09-21T10:44:42Z | insidehighered.com | control | https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-explain-it-me/why-can%E2%80%99t-we-spend-endowment | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CADDO PARISH, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Caddo Parish Sheriff’s deputies have arrested four teens they say burglarized at least seven cars.
The string of burglaries started just after 3 a.m. Tuesday in the 4300 block of Roy Road in Blanchard. A neighbor reported that masked teens were stealing change and prescription drugs from... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/4-teens-charged-with-multiple-felonies-caddo-parish-shreveport-louisianaafter-early-morning-burglaries/ | 2022-09-21T10:44:46Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/4-teens-charged-with-multiple-felonies-caddo-parish-shreveport-louisianaafter-early-morning-burglaries/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Black Enrollment Declines, Gaps Increase
A new report details disparities in academic outcomes for Black community college students.
While Black students disproportionately attend community colleges, their enrollment at these institutions has significantly dropped and gaps in their academic outcomes have more than doub... | https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/21/black-community-college-students-face-stark-disparities | 2022-09-21T10:44:52Z | insidehighered.com | control | https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/21/black-community-college-students-face-stark-disparities | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Disclaimer: All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A Shreveport man is wanted in connection with a fatal shooting that happened on Labor Day.
According to police 42-year-old Lee Buckner is wanted for one count of second-degree murder related to the shooting that happened Mo... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/arklatex-most-wanted/suspect-in-connection-with-shreveport-market-street-shooting/ | 2022-09-21T10:44:54Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/arklatex-most-wanted/suspect-in-connection-with-shreveport-market-street-shooting/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Shreveport woman accused of throwing her two young children into Cross Lake late last year has been found competent to stand trial, but the court is still waiting for a report on whether she is mentally ill.
That was the upshot of a brief hearing Tuesday in Caddo District Court in the ... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/court-still-awaiting-sanity-report-on-mother-accused-of-throwing-kids-into-cross-lake/ | 2022-09-21T10:45:00Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/court-still-awaiting-sanity-report-on-mother-accused-of-throwing-kids-into-cross-lake/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Presidents or Provosts: Fayetteville Technical CC, Our Lady of the Lake U, Smith College, U of Alabama–Huntsville, U of North Texas Health Science Center
September 21, 2022
- Abel Antonio Chávez, vice president for enrollment and student success at Western Colorado University, has been selected as president of Our ... | https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/21/new-presidents-or-provosts-fayetteville-huntsville-ollu-smith-unthsc | 2022-09-21T10:45:02Z | insidehighered.com | control | https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/21/new-presidents-or-provosts-fayetteville-huntsville-ollu-smith-unthsc | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — The Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office says they worked all night with other agencies to capture a wanted Shreveport man with a lengthy criminal history.
Now, 35-year-old Frankie Tillman is in custody at the Caddo Correctional Center on a $1 million bond.
“This criminal has been charged numerou... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/cpso-1m-bond-set-for-wanted-man-captured-in-shreveport/ | 2022-09-21T10:45:07Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/cpso-1m-bond-set-for-wanted-man-captured-in-shreveport/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After the China Initiative: Seeking Accountability
Their lives upended, two scholars targeted by the DOJ’s controversial anti-espionage program fight back in their own ways.
The Department of Justice discontinued its controversial China Initiative in February, amid accusations that the program was criminalizing China-l... | https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/21/scholars-targeted-china-initiative-seek-accountability | 2022-09-21T10:45:12Z | insidehighered.com | control | https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/21/scholars-targeted-china-initiative-seek-accountability | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Georgia deputy police chief landed behind bars after authorities said he was busted in a prostitution sting in Polk County, Florida, last Thursday.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said 49-year-old Jason DiPrima of Kingston, Georgia, was arrested Thursday for soliciting a prostitute, a first-degr... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/deputy-police-chief-showed-up-at-florida-prostitution-sting-with-180-pack-of-white-claw-sheriff-says/ | 2022-09-21T10:45:15Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/deputy-police-chief-showed-up-at-florida-prostitution-sting-with-180-pack-of-white-claw-sheriff-says/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Service-Oriented Culture at Colleges With One-Stop Shops
Colleges whose leaders make the effort to combine service-oriented departments into one center tend to provide stronger service interactions across campus, as this infographic shows.
It’s not an easy lift: putting entire departments that students need to visit th... | https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/21/students-get-better-service-colleges-one-stops-infographic | 2022-09-21T10:45:22Z | insidehighered.com | control | https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/21/students-get-better-service-colleges-one-stops-infographic | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man who authorities said had a “disturbing fascination with mass school shootings” was arrested after he allegedly left several dead animals on a memorial in Parkland.
According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, 29-year-old Robert Mondragon left several dead and disfigured animals at the M... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/florida-man-obsessed-with-school-shootings-put-dead-animals-on-parkland-memorial-deputies-say/ | 2022-09-21T10:45:22Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/florida-man-obsessed-with-school-shootings-put-dead-animals-on-parkland-memorial-deputies-say/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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LIVINGSTON, La. (WGNO) — The Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested two individuals near the Albany area. According to the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office, Steven McCarthy and Bridgette Hull were accused of making drug transition on Tuesday.
Acc... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/la-state-board-member-arrested-accused-of-drug-and-gun-charges/ | 2022-09-21T10:45:30Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/la-state-board-member-arrested-accused-of-drug-and-gun-charges/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Why Emporia State Axed 33 Employees
Emporia State cut tenured faculty as part of a controversial workforce-management policy. Officials promise a reinvestment of resources, but critics distrust leadership and fear the worst.
At approximately 1:00 p.m. last Thursday, Dan Colson’s phone rang. The tenured professor of Eng... | https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/21/why-emporia-state-axed-33-employees | 2022-09-21T10:45:32Z | insidehighered.com | control | https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/21/why-emporia-state-axed-33-employees | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The city of Shreveport went 60 days without a homicide, the longest streak in decades, and Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith says its a credit to all the men and women in uniform.
Until the fatal shooting of Kenneth Dotie on Labor Day, there were no homicides in Shreveport since July 6.
... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/labor-day-shooting-ends-60-days-without-homicide-in-shreveport/ | 2022-09-21T10:45:38Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/labor-day-shooting-ends-60-days-without-homicide-in-shreveport/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Allegheny President Suddenly Quits
September 21, 2022
Allegheny College president Hilary Link resigned from her position Tuesday. Link, president since 2019, made her resignation effective immediately. A news release from the college attributed her decision to “personal and professional... | https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/09/21/allegheny-president-suddenly-quits | 2022-09-21T10:45:42Z | insidehighered.com | control | https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/09/21/allegheny-president-suddenly-quits | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG)– A man is in custody after multiple active shootings across Memphis Wednesday night.
The suspect was identified as 19-year-old Ezekiel Kelly. It’s not yet known how many people were killed or injured, but at least one shooting at an AutoZone store was streamed by Kelly on Facebook Live.
Another vi... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/man-wanted-for-shooting-rampage-across-memphis-in-custody/ | 2022-09-21T10:45:45Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/man-wanted-for-shooting-rampage-across-memphis-in-custody/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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The Evolving Faculty Affairs Landscape: A Compilation
September 21, 2022
Inside Higher Ed is pleased to publish today a free compilation of articles and essays exploring “The Evolving Faculty Affairs Landscape.”
A copy of this booklet is available for download here.
On Wednesday, Oct. 1... | https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/09/21/evolving-faculty-affairs-landscape-compilation | 2022-09-21T10:45:52Z | insidehighered.com | control | https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/09/21/evolving-faculty-affairs-landscape-compilation | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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WEST MONROE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — A Monroe man was arrested Monday and charged with multiple counts of sleeping with their girlfriend’s teenage child in 2020.
On September 5, 2022, Shexnieavia Letavious Pope was arrested and transported to the Ouachita Cor... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/monroe-man-arrested-accused-of-sex-with-girlfriends-child/ | 2022-09-21T10:45:53Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/monroe-man-arrested-accused-of-sex-with-girlfriends-child/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (KLAS) – A speeding woman is accused of driving under the influence of cocaine and alcohol when she crashed into another car, killing its driver who was under the influence of methamphetamine, police said.
Summer Butler, 37, faces charges of DUI resulting in death, reckless driving and being in po... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/speeding-woman-on-cocaine-kills-drunk-driver-high-on-meth-in-north-las-vegas-police-say/ | 2022-09-21T10:46:00Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/speeding-woman-on-cocaine-kills-drunk-driver-high-on-meth-in-north-las-vegas-police-say/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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How Virtual Reality Can Help Develop Products: Academic Minute
September 21, 2022
Today on the Academic Minute: Sebastian Hohenberg, full professor in the school of business and economics at the University of Münster, explains how virtual reality might help businesses outside the tech b... | https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/09/21/how-virtual-reality-can-help-develop-products-academic-minute | 2022-09-21T10:46:02Z | insidehighered.com | control | https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/09/21/how-virtual-reality-can-help-develop-products-academic-minute | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A DNA expert and a chemist testified for most of Wednesday morning in the trial of the Shreveport man accused in the November 2018 shooting deaths of a local couple who offered him a ride home.
DeWayne Watkins is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the Nov. 8, 2018, shooting ... | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/watkins-double-murder-trial-testimony-covers-dna-gasoline-traces-borrowed-bike/ | 2022-09-21T10:46:08Z | ktalnews.com | control | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/watkins-double-murder-trial-testimony-covers-dna-gasoline-traces-borrowed-bike/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Kimberly Timpf of Vector Solutions: Pulse Podcast
September 21, 2022
This month’s episode of the Pulse podcast features Kimberly Timpf, director of impact at Vector Solutions. In the conversation with Rodney B. Murray, host of The Pulse, Timpf discusses Vector’s AlcoholEdu program, whic... | https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/09/21/kimberly-timpf-vector-solutions-pulse-podcast | 2022-09-21T10:46:13Z | insidehighered.com | control | https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/09/21/kimberly-timpf-vector-solutions-pulse-podcast | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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