October 2024

From staff reports The Prague Lady Red Devils, behind three top-10 efforts, won the Class 3A 2-mile cross country regional team championship last Saturday at North Rock Creek High School. Prague recorded a team score of 82, followed by Bethel High School in second place with a 93. Sophomore Hailey Johnson of Prague set the…

The depreciation of the Hungarian forint is accelerating relative to its Eastern European peers, especially after a negative GDP reading in the third quarter. Against the euro, the forint has surpassed the level of 405 and seems to be heading towards the 410 mark. Commerzbank’s EUR/HUF forecast is 415.0 by the end of 2025. But…

A study led by the international community Global climate attribution (WWA) concludes that climate change intensified the 10 deadliest extreme weather events recorded worldwide in the last two decades, which claimed at least 576,042 lives. Scientists from this group have analyzed three tropical cyclones, four heat waves, one drought and two floods recorded between 2004…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Washington state man who pleaded guilty to killing at least 118 eagles as part of a wildlife trafficking network who operated on a Native American reservation in Montana faces sentencing Thursday before a federal judge. The trafficking network sold eagle feathers and parts in a black market that exploits high…

Charli XCX and Emma Corrin were left terrified after being haunted by two ghosts on the set of their latest film. The actor, 28, and the singer, 32, were filming their queer fantasy 100 Nights of Hero when they began to notice some strange happenings. The cast and crew freaked out after noticing equipment malfunctions…

TEL AVIV, Israel. Rocket fire from Lebanon killed five people in northern Israel on Thursday, including four foreign workers, in the deadliest such attack since Israel’s invasion earlier this month. The militant group Hezbollah has been firing rockets, drones and missiles at Israel, and provoking retaliatory strikes, since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack from…

Three teenagers have been charged in connection with the murder of an Oakland County sheriff’s deputy. In June 2024, Oakland County Deputy Bradley Reckling was working undercover trying to dismantle a serious auto theft ring when he spotted and followed a stolen car in Detroit. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said 18-year-old Raymone Debose fired…

Election forecaster sticks to Kamala Harris’ winning prediction Allan Lichtman, renowned election forecaster, has successfully predicted nine of the last ten presidential elections. Thursday is Hallowe’enmarking the end of the spooky season before we head into the final days before the choice. As children across the country prepare to trick-or-treat, former president donald trump it…

National Crime Agency Drugs worth £700,000 found in Hertfordshire flat A man caught with 13kg (28lb) of cocaine and a gun has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Albanian Irakli Rustemi, 33, was an illegal immigrant and had absconded from the Immigration Service, police discovered. In a chalet in the garden of a house…

Jason and Travis Kelce made their debut as brothers singing Christmas songs in 2023 when they personalized the Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York” by hurling insults at each other. in the form of sibling rivalry in “Fairytale of Philadelphia.” Now, the brothers are back with a new duet from the Eagles’ third Christmas album, A…