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If you’re rushing to the polls today, here is what you need to know before voting. In Jackson County, the much-discussed Royals and Chiefs stadium tax question will be on the ballot. Area residents will also decide on school board and city council members, depending on their municipality. Read on for last-minute voting information: When […]

Jackson County’s assessment, collections and recorder of deeds offices were closed Tuesday morning due to computer malfunctions, which the county said was possibly attributable to some form of cyber attack. Other county systems were unaffected. Nor did the glitch have any affect on either the Jackson County or Kansas City election boards on this Election […]

MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. (FOX 2) – Police shut down M-53 last month as they tried to stop an intoxicated driver who was going the wrong way. Shelby Township police were called at 11:56 p.m. March 18 about a driver going north on the southbound side of M-53 near 23 Mile Road. When officers arrived, they […]

British Steel has secured a deal to supply rail track for a new, fully-electrified route in north Africa, the company has announced. The contract will see about 9,500 tonnes of track produced in Scunthorpe for Egypt’s Green Line railway, between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. British Steel said it was “a multimillion-pound” contract. It […]

Apr. 2—State Rep. Brooks Landgraf and Waco economist Ray Perryman say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules for the imposition of electric vehicles on the American public simply won’t work. Aimed at increasing EV sales, which were only 5.8 percent of new vehicle sales in 2022 and 7.6 percent last year, the EPA said […]

Seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) have been killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, the charity’s founder said on Tuesday. The victims were British, Polish, Australian, Palestinian and also included a dual US-Canadian citizen, WCK said. A journalist working for the BBC in Gaza has seen the bodies of three […]

Newly released video shows the moment an unarmed teenage girl was fatally shot by police in Hesperia, California, after she had allegedly been kidnapped by her dad. Savannah Graziano, 15, watched her father, Anthony, shoot and kill her mother—his estranged wife—outside a school on Sept. 26, 2022, after which the 45-year-old reportedly abducted the girl […]

A dream cruise vacation has turned into a nightmare for eight passengers left stranded on the African island of São Tomé and Príncipe after their ship left without them because they were late to return from a private tour. The tourists — six from the U.S. and two from Australia — were aboard the Norwegian […]

The first day of legal marijuana consumption in Germany on Easter Monday saw no major reported problems, with police officials across the country telling dpa that things remained calm and uneventful. “It was an absolutely calm start,” a police spokeswoman in the eastern state of Thuringia told dpa. Police in the capital of Berlin, meanwhile, […]

The Woodland Police Department is looking Tuesday for two suspects accused in the shooting death of a man in the backyard of a home. Officers were told just before 1:10 a.m. of gunshots being fired at a house in the 800 block of Ashley Avenue, a neighborhood bordering Ferns Park. Investigators found the man, about […]

Malaysia-headquartered budget airline AirAsia is revamping a subscription plan that gives customers “unlimited” flights and cut-price hotels across South-east Asia. An expansion of the AirAsia+ offering available since December 2022, the Unlimited – Asean International Pass includes “a variety of exclusive discount offerings” for travellers in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) region. The […]