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Maryland firefighters, doctors and engineers on their way to Hawaii to help 08/16/2023 08:30pm • Maryland's premier urban search and rescue team is bound for Hawaii to join the massive recovery effort from the wildfires on Maui. Maryland Task Force 1 has been tapped by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to assist teams that are working to get the community back on its feet after When Your Adult Children Launch: What to Do With the Money You Aren't Spending on Them 08/16/2023 08:00pm • You took care of your children into adulthood, most likely at no minor cost. A 2022 Brookings Institute report found the projected average outlay from birth to age 18 for a child born in 2015 to a middle-class family with two children will be $310,605. Now that your adult children are on their own, This Is What Fraud Costs Consumers 08/16/2023 08:00pm • American consumers lost $8.8 billion to fraud in 2022 -- 30% more than in 2021 -- according to the latest data from the Federal Trade Commission. That breaks down to a per report median of about $650. To help prevent you and your loved ones from becoming victims, learn about the five most frequently Best Places to Retire in Panama 08/16/2023 08:00pm • Panama continues to emerge as an equatorial destination of choice for tens of thousands of expats and retirees looking for a jungle paradise to call home. The 29,000 square-mile island links North and South America in a geographically elongated "s" shape that borders Costa Rica to the west and Colum How to Pay for Medical School 08/16/2023 08:00pm • Medical school is expensive, and for most future doctors, the burden of major debt may seem inevitable. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, 71% of medical students in 2022 graduated with education debt, averaging more than $200,000 per student. High medical school debt forces Yormark: Big 12 had conversations with UConn, Gonzaga but is done expanding 08/16/2023 07:11pm • Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark says his conference is done expanding, shutting down the possibility of adding UConn and Gonzaga after engaging with both basketball powers on potential membership. Less than two weeks after the Big 12 announced Pac-12 schools Arizona, Arizona State Colorado and Uta An appeals court backs some abortion drug limits, pending the Supreme Court's approval 08/16/2023 07:09pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mail-order access to a drug used in the most common form of abortion in the U.S. would end under a federal appeals court ruling issued Wednesday that cannot take effect until the Supreme Court weighs in. The decision by three judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Ne Illinois will provide burial for migrant toddler who died on bus 08/16/2023 05:59pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois will provide for Thursday's funeral and burial for the migrant toddler who died last week on a bus headed to Chicago from Texas, officials said. Jismary Alejandra Barboza González, who would have turned 4 next week, died Aug. 10 while on a chartered bus, part of DC officials offer few answers about emergency response to Monday’s flooding 08/16/2023 03:50pm • Two days after severe flooding prompted multiple rescues of people and led to the deaths of several dogs inside a doggy day care in Northeast D.C., city leaders were ready to offer few answers about what happened during Monday’s storms. Chris Rodriguez, who leads the D.C.'s Department of Homela Death toll rises to 27 as Dominican firefighters find more bodies in this week's explosion 08/16/2023 02:57pm • SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The death toll from this week's powerful explosion in the Dominican Republic rose to 27 on Wednesday as firefighters continued efforts to extinguish the persistent fire set off by the blast, the national emergency director said. Juan Manuel Méndez, directo Militia clashes in Libyan capital have killed 45, in city's most intense bout of violence this year 08/16/2023 01:21pm • CAIRO (AP) — The death toll in this week's clashes between rival militias in Libya's capital rose to 45 on Wednesday as troops fanned out across Tripoli to restore calm after a 24-hour bout of fighting that was the city's most intense violence this year. The clashes erupted late on Monday between Temporary shelter for asylum seekers closes in Maine's largest city 08/16/2023 12:51pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Nearly 200 asylum seekers from African countries have traded one temporary home in Maine's largest city for another Wednesday after a basketball arena that served as a shelter closed. About 10 buses and vans lined up outside the Portland Expo to take 191 occupants and their Michael Cera grapples with isolation and sibling strife in 'The Adults' 08/16/2023 12:50pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — When director Dustin Guy Defa set out to make a movie about isolation, grief and familial strife, he wasn’t quite cognizant of the unmistakable ways in which the effects of the coronavirus pandemic were informing his script. Now, however, he concedes that “The Adults,” whi Bolt was missing on police helicopter that crashed in South Carolina, report says 08/16/2023 11:24am • A police helicopter that crashed at a South Carolina airport was missing a bolt that should have been removed and reinstalled during maintenance about six weeks earlier, federal officials said in a report. A second bolt on the Charleston County Sheriff's Office helicopter also was loose and the pilo A Bulgarian businessman was shot dead in broad daylight in a suburb of Sofia 08/16/2023 10:19am • SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A prominent Bulgarian businessman whose rollercoaster career reflected his country’s transition from communism to democracy was shot dead in broad daylight on Wednesday, police said. Police said that Alexey Petrov died on the spot after being shot by persons unknown aroun