Steve Nedved
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Jul 23
New York City could become latest to punish cashless businesses
agrobacter/iStock(NEW YORK) — New York could become the latest city to punish businesses that refuse to accept cash. New York’s City council will vote on a bill Tuesday that would prohibit most shops and restaurants from refusing to accept payments in cash amid concerns that cashless policies could discriminate against lower-income patrons or those without …
Jul 23
Boris Johnson chosen to replace Theresa May as UK prime minister
ISABEL INFANTES/AFP/Getty Images(LONDON) — Boris Johnson has been chosen as the new leader of the Conservative Party, and will take over as prime minister from Theresa May when she resigns on Wednesday. Johnson was always the favorite to win the race, and in the end convincingly beat his rival Jeremy Hunt in the ballot of …
Jul 23
Heavy rain drenches Northeast; tropical depression to soak Carolinas
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Severe storms moved through the Northeast late Monday and into Tuesday morning, producing damaging winds of 75 to 80 mph from Virginia to New Jersey. Heavy rain came with these storms, including up to 4 inches in Westchester County, just north of New York City, in only a few hours. Flash …
Jul 23
Mail bomber obsessed with Trump, Fox News, new court filings show
Handout(NEW YORK) — New defense filings in the case of admitted serial bomber Cesar Sayoc paint a grim picture of a man who “lost everything in the Great Recession,” had “cognitive limitations and severe learning disabilities” and was “abandoned by his father and sexually abused by a teacher at his Catholic school.” “In this darkness,” …
Jul 23
Protesters targeted with tear gas as they call for ouster of Puerto Rico governor
iStock(NEW YORK) — After a day of largely peaceful demonstrations, masses of protesters were met with tear gas in San Juan late Monday as they called for the ousting of embattled Gov. Ricardo Rossello. Protesters were seen throwing objects at police keeping the line between the governor’s mansion and those calling for Rossello to resign. …
Jul 23
New blackout takes Venezuelans by surprise
Carolina Cabral/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(CARACAS, Venezuela) — Citizens on the streets of Venezuela’s capital city scrambled to find transportation home as a new blackout surprised the country Tuesday. While different states have suffered from blackouts over the past few months, this is the first one to affect the entire country since March. The streets …
Jul 23
Midland’s Mark Wystrach is “terrified” and “thrilled” to be a dad: “It’s like drinking life in through a fire hydrant”
ABC/Image Group LA On Friday, Midland‘s Mark Wystrach and his wife-to-be Ty Haney announced on Instagram they’re awaiting the birth of their first child. Now, Mark reveals they expect to become parents in the fall. “My beautiful fiancée and I are gonna have a beautiful baby girl in November,” he declares. “It’s all come aligned …
Jul 22
Regulations limiting drone potential for farmers
A remote sensing specialist says adoption of drone technology in agriculture has been slower than expected. In 2013 the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems predicted agriculture would be the industry most impacted by drones. Trevor Witt with Kansas State University Polytechnic says that hasn’t been the case. “Probably largely because of the regulatory restrictions but …
Jul 22
Protesters scream ‘We need him out,’ as Puerto Rico governor brags of leading ‘biggest recovery’
iStock(NEW YORK) — Blowing whistles, waving red, white and blue Puerto Rican flags and demanding the immediate resignation of the governor, tens of thousands of protesters Monday morning showed their outrage by shutting down a major freeway in the U.S. territory’s capital and imploring those who feel the same to join an island-wide strike. Some …
Jul 22
Illinois corn silking way behind
As of Sunday, 36% of Illinois corn was silking , way behind last year when it was almost 100 percent. Corn condition 78-percent fair to good. Soybeans emergence is 96 percent. Soybeans blooming were at 30 percent, well behind last year and the five-year average of 72 percent. Two percent of soybeans were setting pods. …
