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Some East Palestine derailment settlement payments should go out even during appeal of the deal 10/08/2024 02:23pm • People who lived near the disastrous East Palestine derailment last year should still be able to receive personal injury payments even while the bulk of their $600 million class action settlement with Norfolk Southern railroad remains on hold during an appeal. A spokesperson for the attorneys who re Researchers say poverty and unemployment are up in Lahaina after last year's wildfires 10/08/2024 02:00pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Unemployment and poverty are up and incomes are down among Maui wildfire survivors more than a year after a deadly blaze leveled historic Lahaina, a report published Tuesday found. The poverty rate among survey respondents more than doubled since the August 2023 fires, the Univers Utah hopes to follow in the steps of other NHL teams that moved and found success 10/08/2024 01:55pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Hockey Club management insists it's an expansion team and, as far as the NHL is concerned and the way records will be kept, that's true. But in a more practical sense, Utah is a relocated franchise. It's mostly the same team that took the ice last season as the Arizona C China puts provisional tariffs on European brandy after EU OKs duties on Chinese EVs 10/08/2024 01:40pm • BEIJING (AP) — Chinese drinkers may pay more for Remy Martin and other European brandies after the government announced on Tuesday provisional tariffs of 30.6% to 39% on those liquors, four days after a majority of European Union countries approved duties on electric vehicles made in China. The ti SEC, Big Ten leaders mulling future of fast-changing college sports 10/08/2024 01:34pm • The Big Ten and SEC already have the upper hand in college football. At meetings this week, their leaders are setting the stage to exact even more control over the sport's future. Among the talking points when an advisory group made of members from the conferences meets in Nashville, Tennessee, are Mexico's president lays out a plan to combat cartel violence. But it looks like more of the same 10/08/2024 01:34pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s new president laid out a plan Tuesday to combat drug cartel violence, but analysts say it appears to be largely a continuation of previous policy. President Claudia Sheinbaum said that she plans to increase intelligence and investigative work, but her main focus will Authorities in Belarus open new criminal probes against scores of opposition activists 10/08/2024 01:24pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian authorities said Tuesday that they have launched new criminal investigations against dozens of opposition activists, part of a sweeping crackdown on dissent ahead of next year's presidential vote, in which the country's authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenk Biggest Kashmir party opposed to India's stripping of region's autonomy wins most seats in election 10/08/2024 01:13pm • SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Kashmir’s biggest political party opposed to India's stripping of the region's semi-autonomy won the most seats in a local election, according to official data on Tuesday, following a vote seen as a referendum against the move by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government As Milton takes aim at Florida, why is Tampa Bay so vulnerable to hurricanes? 10/08/2024 12:43pm • The last time the eye of a major storm like Hurricane Milton struck Tampa Bay, in 1921, the city was a sleepy backwater of a few hundred thousand people. A century later, it's among the fastest-growing metropolises in the United States, with more than 3 million people, and highly vulnerable to flood A driver's test for autonomous vehicles? A leading expert says US should have one 10/08/2024 12:27pm • ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — At a time of growing concern about the safety of self-driving vehicles, a leading expert is calling on the federal government to develop a national driver's test that such vehicles would have to pass before they could travel on public roads. Such a regulation would set mini A series of deaths and the 'Big Fight': Uncovering police force in one Midwestern city 10/08/2024 11:49am • EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — It was the day of the “Big Fight” at the police academy, and rookie sheriff’s deputy Asson Hacker groaned as the hulking instructor pressed down on his chest. Playing the role of a combative suspect, the trainer challenged Hacker to battle like his life was on the lin An unusual hurricane season goes from ultra quiet to record busy and spawns Helene and Milton 10/08/2024 11:21am • Explosively intensifying Hurricane Milton is the latest freaky system to come out of what veteran hurricane scientists call the weirdest storm season of their lives. Before this Atlantic hurricane season started, forecasters said everything lined up to be a monster busy year, and it began that way w Buzz in the Beehive State as Black Desert Resort welcomes PGA Tour back to Utah: Analysis 10/08/2024 10:50am • The late Tom Weiskopf was never one to mince words inside the ropes and in the broadcast booth, or even when he was surveying land for a new golf course. This was no ordinary land in the southwest corner of Utah — a 600-acre field of black lava amid red rock mountains about 30 miles from Zion Nati German leader Scholz's party moves fast to replace an official in a key campaign post 10/08/2024 09:47am • BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party moved quickly to replace a top official who stepped down less than a year ahead of a challenging national election, presenting a well-connected left-wing lawmaker on Tuesday as his replacement in a post that is important for the campaign. Kevin K Golijov's Flamenco-tinged opera about slain Spanish playwright Lorca comes to the Met 10/08/2024 09:28am • NEW YORK (AP) — Osvaldo Golijov was running out of time. The Argentine-born composer had been commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center for a chamber opera to be performed in the summer of 2003. And with the deadline just months away, his original idea wasn’t panning out. “It didn’t go any