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  • 2023's problems and peeves are bid a symbolic farewell at pre-New Year's Times Square event

    December 28, 2023 - 3:52 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — One person wanted to get past anger issues. Others sought to turn the page on medical bills, work stress, insecurities, taxes, regrets, bad habits, bad hair days, COVID-19, worrying about what other people think, and “all negativity of 2023.”

  • Liz Weston: 3 steps to downsize in a hurry

    May 15, 2023 - 6:03 AM

    Ideally, you’d spend months or even years carefully purging excess belongings — but life may have other plans. Maybe you or someone you love has a health crisis and needs to move into assisted living. Or someone has died and their home has to be cleared before next month’s rent is due. Maybe you’re just moving soon and want to significantly lighten your load.

  • Mercedes to build its own electric vehicle charging network

    January 05, 2023 - 11:44 AM

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mercedes-Benz says it will build its own worldwide electric vehicle charging network starting in North America in a bid to compete with EV sales leader Tesla.

  • Happy hygge! Scrabble dictionary adds hundreds of words

    November 16, 2022 - 6:22 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Here's the sitch, Scrabble stans. Your convos around the board are about to get more interesting with about 500 new words and variations added to the game's official dictionary: stan, sitch, convo, zedonk, dox and fauxhawk among them.

  • As natural gas expands in Gulf, residents fear rising damage

    June 02, 2022 - 3:58 AM

    LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana (AP) — The front lawn of Lydia Larce’s home is strewn with debris: Remnants of cabinets and chunks of pink shower marble lie between dumpsters. She lives in a FEMA trailer out back, her home in shambles more than a year after Hurricane Laura tore through Lake Charles.

  • How to plan an eco-friendly remodel without overspending

    May 12, 2021 - 4:34 AM

    When Cliff and Karen Tyllick set out to install solar panels on their Austin, Texas , home in 2012, their goal was to reduce their carbon footprint. The fact that they also saved thousands of dollars upfront and lowered their bills was a nice bonus.

  • Israel's ultra-Orthodox reject criticism, defy virus rules

    February 10, 2021 - 3:58 AM

    JERUSALEM - Mendy Moskowits, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Belz Hassidic sect in Jerusalem, doesn’t understand the uproar toward believers like him.

  • VIRUS DIARY: In Beijing, finally, a tentative spring blooms

    April 07, 2020 - 8:44 AM

    BEIJING - The coronavirus came first in the depths of winter. As with so many places afterward, the change seeped in gradually.

  • Flower-lovers tackle waste, push industry towards sustainable measures

    February 14, 2020 - 8:43 AM

    TORONTO - Julia Zini loves to give and receive flowers for any occasion, but for the first time she's reconsidering whether to buy a traditional bouquet of roses synonymous with Valentine's Day.

  • Moms of the dead from drugs: "Where is the outrage for us?"

    January 28, 2019 - 3:40 PM

    MARLBOROUGH, Mass. - The moms meet in a parking lot overlooking the little white funeral home and watch the mourners drifting toward the chapel doors — a familiar scene, beginning again.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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