The stock market surged after a report showed that inflation in the United States slowed last month, Russia announced that its troops began pulling out of the Ukrainian city of Kherson and Tropical Storm Nicole hit Florida. Tiffany Johnson has today’s News in :90.
VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Tropical Storm Nicole sent multiple homes toppling into the Atlantic Ocean and threatened a row of high rise condominiums in places where Hurricane Ian washed away seawalls and other remaining protections only weeks ago. Authorities in Volusia County ordered evacuations ahead of the storm and closed bridges as they assessed the damage Thursday.
Numbers for the record-breaking Powerball jackpot were drawn Tuesday morning, Tropical Storm Nicole headed toward Florida’s Atlantic coastline, and Election Day comes to the St. Thomas Campus. Brooke Paine has today’s News in :90.
Hurricane Ian devastated countless lives when it made landfall in Florida Sept. 28 as a category four storm. Although the hurricane hit Southwest Florida, its effects are being felt thousands of miles away by loved ones in the St. Thomas community.
Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life without parole for the 2018 murder of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, after the jury said Thursday that it could not unanimously agree that he should be executed. Under Florida law, a death sentence requires a unanimous vote on at least …
Hurricane Ian knocked out power to 2.5 million people as it carved a path of destruction across Florida, Russia intends to annex occupied parts of Ukraine on Friday and North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Thursday. Anya Capistrant-Kinney has today’s News in :90.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Ian carved a path of destruction across Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, cutting off the only bridge to a barrier island, destroying a historic waterfront pier and knocking out power to 2.5 million people as it dumped rain over a huge area on Thursday. Catastrophic flooding was threatened …
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., (AP) — Hurricane Ian’s most damaging winds began hitting Florida’s southwest coast Wednesday, lashing the state with heavy rain and pushing a devastating storm surge after strengthening to just shy of the most dangerous Category 5 status. Fueled by warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Ian grew to a catastrophic …
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Hurricane Ian moved near the Cayman Islands and closer to western Cuba early Monday on a track to hit Florida as a major hurricane this week.
A young man shot a Russian military officer at close range at an enlistment office Monday, in an unusually bold attack reflecting resistance to the Russian leadership’s efforts to mobilize hundreds of thousands of men to wage war on Ukraine. The shooting comes after scattered arson attacks on enlistment offices and protests in Russian cities …
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law on Monday that forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, U.S. regulators authorized another COVID-19 booster for people 50 and older on Tuesday, and police in Champlin are searching for a suspect in a fatal stabbing after a 35-year-old woman was found unresponsive in the front yard of a residence on Monday. Ad/Pr Representative Allexa Whitehouse has today’s News in :90.
The chair of the University of St. Thomas College Republicans, Gisela Castro Medina, 19, has been indicted for allegedly recruiting six minors to engage in commercial sex acts, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced in a statement Monday.
The St. Thomas men’s basketball game was postponed Monday for COVID-19 reasons, St. Thomas Center for well-being reported a decline in COVID-19 cases for the third week in a row from 17 to 13. A hacker gained unauthorized access to the water controlling system in Florida.
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden each have a path to win the White House. The former vice president is competitive in all the battleground states Trump carried in 2016, and has put a handful of traditional Republican states, including Georgia and Arizona, in play. Trump can win by defending a wide swath of territory he won in 2016, but his hopes for reelection are heavily dependent on the swing states of Florida and Pennsylvania.
Hurricane Sally made landfall this morning, the Big Ten conference will return to football the weekend of October 24, the University of St. Thomas canceled January Term study abroad programs and U.S. citizens are barred from all but eight countries. Opinions Editor Maddie Peters has today’s News in :90.
