Louisiana State

Tropical Storm Beryl has formed in the Atlantic and is forecasted to strengthen into the first hurricane of the 2024 season. The storm, currently packing maximum sustained winds of 60 mph, is moving west at 21 mph toward the Windward Islands. This development comes amid predictions of an above-normal hurricane season, raising concerns for the regions in its projected path.

Tropical Storm Beryl: Here Are the Potentially Affected Areas

POLITICO

“It’s astonishing to see a forecast for a major (Category 3+) hurricane in June anywhere in the Atlantic, let alone this far east in the deep tropics," one storm expert tweeted.

Beryl strengthens into hurricane in Atlantic, forecast to become major storm

The Mirror US

Beryl grew into a hurricane Saturday as it churned toward the southeastern Caribbean, with forecasters warning it was expected to strengthen into a dangerous major storm before reaching Barbados late Sunday or early Monday.

Record breaking Hurricane Beryl barrels towards the Caribbean with warnings it could become dangerous major storm

Texas State

UPI News

Two tropical storm systems, forming in the southern Gulf of Mexico and in the Atlantic Ocean, could impact much of the southern United States this week to kick off what is forecast to be a "very active" hurricane season.

2 tropical storm systems take aim at Texas, Southeast

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

Nebraska State

Norfolk, NE

Two Nebraska-born ice cream obsessives who grew up on Zesto soft serve are working to broaden a loose network of restaurants that bear the same name but operate mostly independently. Soft-Serve Survivors: How Zesto Endured in Nebraska After Its Ice-Cream Empire Melted. On the hottest day of July 1948 in...

Soft-Serve Survivors: How Zesto Endured in Nebraska After Its Ice-Cream Empire Melted

New Orleans, LA

AccuWeather

Last week, a tropical rainstorm brought heavy rainfall to portions of Florida. This week, AccuWeather hurricane experts are monitoring for tropical development in three separate areas across the Atlantic Basin, all of which have the potential to bring tropical impacts to the United States. The first and most concerning location...

Texas and Louisiana on alert for deluge of tropical rainfall

A tropical storm warning has been issued along part of the coast of Texas and Mexico as a tropical rainstorm gains strength in the Gulf of Mexico. After a tropical rainstorm brought heavy rainfall to portions of Florida last week, AccuWeather hurricane experts warn that yet another tropical rainstorm is expected to impact the southern U.S. in the coming days.

Tropical rainstorm to bring deluge of rain to Texas, Mexico

Lancaster, CA

LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Two people were killed and five others injured during a gang-related shooting in Southern California's high desert, authorities said. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were called to the scene in the city of Lancaster, about 42 miles (68 kilometers) north of downtown Los Angeles, shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday for a reported gunshot victim.

2 Killed, 5 Injured in Gang-Related Shooting in Southern California's High Desert, Authorities Say

Mississippi State

Strong to severe thunderstorms are possible from much of the Mississippi Valley into the Ozark Plateau and southern Plains on Monday, June 3, 2024, while heavy to excessive rainfall may bring flooding to parts of the southern Plains and Ozarks, the National Weather Service (NWS) warns. “Pockets of severe thunderstorms...

Strong to severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall forecasted for Mississippi Valley, Ozark Plateau, and southern Plains

Florida State

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Meteorologist Joe Cioffi

Except for Northern New England and the Southeast to Florida, we have mostly nice weather conditions covering the Eastern US. The big weather stories this week will be a tropical flow of moisture that will be setting up from the Western Caribbean across the state of Florida.

Torrential rains Florida begin tonight, severe weather Plains, Nice Eastern US, Heat late week,

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a major blow to federal regulatory power on Friday by overturning a 1984 precedent that had given deference to government agencies in interpreting laws they administer, handing a defeat to President Joe Biden's administration. The justices ruled 6-3 to set aside lower court...

US Supreme Court Curbs Federal Agency Powers, Overturning 1984 Precedent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Minutes before going on stage for the first presidential debate on Thursday, Donald Trump received a phone call from the mother of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was killed in Houston this month, allegedly by two Venezuelan men in the U.S. illegally. The mother, Alexis Nungaray, was returning a voicemail Trump had left earlier in the day when she was at her daughter's funeral, a friend of the family, Victoria Galvan, who witnessed the call, told Reuters. Nungaray's body was found in a creek near her home on June 17, after her attackers allegedly took her under a bridge, tied her up, took her pants off and strangled her, according to police and prosecutors.

Trump Puts Murdered Women and Girls Center Stage in Anti-Immigration Drive

California State

Alameda Post

California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

Still Need Your Landline?

Fox Weather

Tropical Storm Alberto became the first named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season Wednesday, and as the system churned over the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico, it blasted parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mexico with heavy rainfall, storm surg

Tropical Storm Alberto approaches landfall in Mexico as Texas threatened by flooding, tornadoes

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is enacting several new laws, including one that says sign language courses may replace foreign language courses for students to earn credit toward high school graduation. A look at some of the other new laws taking effect on July 1:. Medicaid during pregnancy. Mississippi...

Mississippi Sets New Laws on Medicaid During Pregnancy, School Funding, Inheritance and Alcohol

ATLANTA (AP) — The winning numbers in Friday evening’s drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:. (twenty-eight, thirty-one, thirty-three, forty-two, sixty-six, Mega Ball: twenty-four, Megaplier: three) Estimated jackpot: $116 million. For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights...

Winning Numbers Drawn in Friday’s Mega Millions

As Hurricane Beryl barrels toward the Caribbean, the FOX Forecast Center is also monitoring two other Atlantic disturbances for potential tropical development in the week ahead.

Tropical Storm Chris could develop as National Hurricane Center tracks invests 94L, 96L in Atlantic

Total Apex Sports & Entertainment

Some zodiac signs love the mystery that darkness brings while others fear it. Yet, it is part of life. Occult is often associated with the dark. Certain individuals become more vibrant at dusk. Still, some ruling planets influence people to possess some mysterious traits.

4 Zodiac Signs Who Are Attracted to Darkness

Maine State

(Reuters) -The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it will investigate a Southwest Airlines flight that departed from a temporarily closed runway in Maine earlier this week. The FAA said on Tuesday an airport vehicle exited the runway before Southwest Flight 4805, a Boeing 737,...

NTSB, FAA to Investigate Southwest Flight That Departed From Closed Runway in Maine

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Beryl Builds Into a 'Major' Hurricane in the Atlantic, NHC Says

(Reuters) -The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Saturday that tropical storm Beryl has intensified into a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean and cautioned that...

Beryl Builds Into a 'Major' Hurricane in the Atlantic, NHC Says

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