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| Work Coming soon: World Cup final venue reveal  “It’s a huge, huge deal,” said Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney. “Having the Soccer Hall of Fame here and of course the Hunt family, FC Dallas, so we hope to host a team here and be a major player in it”. |
| Work US pilot safely ejects after F-16 fighter jet suffers ‘in-flight emergency’ in South Korea, Air Force says  The 8th Fighter Wing, which is composed of two F-16 squadrons, previously experienced an F-16 crash in December. It then said the pilot experienced problems during a routine training flight and was safely recovered after ejecting the aircraft before it crashed into sea near the port city of Gunsan. |
| Work Utah becomes latest state to regulate bathroom access for transgender people  No lawmakers or members of the public spoke against the part of the bill that allows the state to enforce some federal Title IX provisions that require equal opportunities for male and female athletes in schools, along with equal facilities and equal access to preferred playing and practice times. |
| Work Taylor Swift's label UMG to pull music from TikTok, accusing the social media app of bullying  \"Despite Universal\'s false narrative and rhetoric, the fact is they have chosen to walk away from the powerful support of a platform with well over a billion users that serves as a free promotional and discovery vehicle for their talent.\" |
| Work Jill Dutton wins race to fill seat vacated by expelled member  In the first round, Hopkins County lawyer Heath Hyde campaigned against school choice vouchers, one of Governor Abbott\'s priorities. He came in third place, following Money in first and Dutton in second. |
| Work 50 years later, still no answers in stabbing death of Arlington woman  Still, buried beneath the latest murder mystery that he’ll soon convert into a multi-episode podcast, Strange said all it takes is one person with one right tip to finally lay Callaway’s mystery to rest. |
| Work $500M Dallas transportation bond proposal devotes less than 2% to ‘Vision Zero' road safety plan  For example, $1.5 million would go to widening sidewalks and removing a traffic lane on Commerce Street downtown. That stretch of road ranks 33rd on the city\'s list of the highest injury locations. |
| Work Give government a refresher course on why tourism is vital  Or maybe it’s because education directed to Miamians on tourism’s value by the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau is less visible. The bureau, aware of the unwarranted stigma of tourism, used to advertise why visitors mean money to all of us. |
| Work Doral industrial realty at top of the Southeast market  “Doral is an exceptional market,” said Mr. Villanueva. “It’s a great place to live, to work and to play. I believe the future’s bright for the City of Doral and the Doral market.” |
| Work FYI Miami: February 1, 2024 ID CARDS DEBATED: A Florida Senate committee has approved a bill that would prevent cities and counties from accepting identification cards issued to undocumented immigrants. The issue focuses on what are known as “community” identification cards that have been issued in some areas to undocumented immigrants and other people. |
| Work Miami eyes charter review to deal with officials’ outside jobs, campaign funds  City Manager Arthur Noriega proffered a middle-ground solution and suggested asking the Florida League of Cities and other municipalities for examples. The commissioners agreed and directed Mr. Noriega to provide a report of best practices in various cities for establishing a charter review committee by the first meeting in March. |
| Work 1,000-square-foot pedestrian bridge to link Morningside buildings  Once built, Morningside Place is to feature two Miami Modern/MiMo-styled, three-story buildings with 24 residential units on the second and third floors as well as a rooftop deck, fitness area and conference room. |
| Work Miami Beach community center a burning issue  “I would like to reopen the senior center that’s there,” she said. “I want the children and the seniors of the neighborhood to have access to the second-floor stage and auditorium, which we don’t have in the area. I also want all of the nonprofits who currently operate there to be able to continue to operate and I would like and I’m hoping… with this new commission, that they will agree with me that it’s worth saving.” |
| Work Closure plan coming for Doral solid waste plant  The county expects to deliver the closure plan to the FDEP by March 15. Its primary goal is to “ensure the site has been rehabilitated and does not pose a threat to humans or the environment,” Mayor Levine Cava said in her report. |
| Work Codina turning former Doral offices into a retail site  “In unveiling our vision to complete Downtown Doral,” Ms. Codina Barlick added, “we reflect on the success of the different components of the community and are fueled to further enrich the lives of our residents and visitors with additions to our unique array of restaurants, shops and interactive art installations.” |
| Work East-West rapid transit pivots to two new routes  Ms. Higgins told board members they “need two paths” to an east-west route. She said the Florida Department of Transportation, the federal government and the county’s transportation team all agree that a plan for bus rapid transit along 836 is not going to be one of those paths, based on both cost and feasibility. “We’re not moving forward with this project, the one that’s in the middle of 836.” |
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| Work No more 'choo-choo': Train horns will go silent again as downtown San Diego ‘quiet zone’ is reinstated  San Diego’s $21 million quiet-zone safety system downtown, designed to reduce the decibel level of train horns at grade-level intersections, was approved by the City Council in 2010. Because of the sophisticated warning systems, trains were no longer required to sound their horns for 15-20 seconds upon approach. |
| Work San Diego just OK'd a sweeping new labor pact to govern all big city projects. Here's what it will do.  The Republican National Committee is meeting behind closed doors in Las Vegas this week, but top party officials will no longer consider a resolution proposed to declare former President Donald Trump the presumptive Republican nominee |
| Work Newsom again asks Congress for funding for sewage crisis  “This storm brought the highest peak flow in the Tijuana River since 1993 and the (fourth) highest peak flow since the IBWC began operating the river gage in 1962,” said Morgan Rogers, are operations manager for the IBWC. |
| Work Hundreds of homeless people live by the San Diego River. Do they know about the coming storm?  Pumps are still at Point Loma’s Rosecrans Shelter after flooding, according to President and CEO Bob McElroy. He said dozens of staffers also had to leave waterlogged offices in Normal Heights, though he primarily attributed that to a problem with a contractor. |
| Work Region braces for second storm as county approves targeted 60-day eviction ban  A South Korean opposition leader who was stabbed in an attack earlier this month and underwent surgery has accused the country’s conservative president of promoting divisive politics and worsening an already toxic discourse in the nation |
| Work East LA mother accused of killing 4-year-old daughter appears in court  Details of the investigation are unclear, but last Thursday the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was called to Civic Center Way in East Los Angeles. Mia was found unresponsive, and her mother was arrested. |
| Work More than 500 people arrested in operation against human trafficking  These are accounts that may not be easy to track and these people approach people who they already see can be easily manipulated and offer them either a job or offer them material things to be able to attract them, Meza said. |
| Work Going electric: USPS fleet features pod-like vans to improve ‘delivery networks'  “The work USPS is doing to electrify those vehicles is making EVs commonplace on every road and street in our country,” said John Podesta, Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation. “While [also] reducing air pollution and increasing comfort and safety for the dedicated public servants who deliver our mail.” |
| Work Boxer ‘Canelo' Alvarez named Grand Marshal for NASCAR's Busch Light Clash  This race marks a third annual trip to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where 23 drivers will compete in a 150-lap exhibition atop a 0.25-mile short asphalt oval. The Clash is scheduled to start around 1 p.m. |
| Work AI-powered robotic mowers are now in Southern California to mow your lawn  \"We\'re excited to unveil our newest robotic mower and showcase the future of outdoor maintenance,\" said Nag Murty, co-founder and CEO of Electric Sheep. \"Our technology represents a significant leap forward in the industry, combining AI and robotics to deliver unparalleled efficiency and performance.\" |
| Work 1 dead, 1 injured in shooting in Glassell Park  Officers responded to the 2200 block of North San Fernando Road, near Sotomayor Arts and Sciences Magnet, around 5:55 p.m. to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon suspect and shots being fired, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. |
| Work L.A. man's violent, antisemitic texts made woman fear for her life, prosecutor says  Karen Garcia is a reporter on the Fast Break Desk, the team that has a pulse on breaking news at the Los Angeles Times. She was previously a reporter on the Utility Journalism Team, which focused on service journalism. Her previous stints include reporting for the San Luis Obispo New Times and KCBX Central Coast Public Radio. |
| Work Ocean images may be first of newborn great white shark in the wild  Grace Toohey is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times covering breaking news for the Fast Break Desk. Before joining the newsroom in 2022, she covered criminal justice issues at the Orlando Sentinel and the Advocate in Baton Rouge. Toohey is a Maryland native and proud Terp. |
| Work Granada Hills man, 79, and the family members police say he killed are identified  Keri Blakinger covers the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2023, she spent nearly seven years in Texas, first covering criminal justice for the Houston Chronicle and then covering prisons for the Marshall Project. Her work has appeared everywhere from the BBC to the New York Daily News, from Vice to the Washington Post Magazine, where her 2019 reporting on women in jail helped earn a National Magazine Award. She is the author of “Corrections in Ink,” a 2022 memoir about her time in prison. |
| Work A massacre that killed 6 reveals the dangerous world of illegal pot in SoCal deserts  Karen Garcia is a reporter on the Fast Break Desk, the team that has a pulse on breaking news at the Los Angeles Times. She was previously a reporter on the Utility Journalism Team, which focused on service journalism. Her previous stints include reporting for the San Luis Obispo New Times and KCBX Central Coast Public Radio. |
| Work N.J. Transit Wants a Big Fare Increase. Riders Want Better Service.  Improvements in reliability, safety and on-time performance, the governor said last week, justify the proposal to raise fares for the first time since he took office six years ago. Just days before, he had told a group of bond analysts that the state had “in many respects fixed N.J. Transit through the customers’ lens.” |
| Work Do Housing Developers Need a (Tax) Break?  New York’s problems were different 40 and 50 years ago — the city desperately needed revitalization. In recent years, the city has faced a different problem. More people want to live here than can be reasonably accommodated by the number of available apartments, driving up rents and home prices. |
| Work Tax Break Scandal Leads to $5 Million Fine for N.J. Energy Company  A spokesman for Mr. Norcross had no comment about the $5 million fine, but he noted that Mr. Norcross had never held an ownership stake in the company and that the state had lost legal challenges after it sought to withhold certain Holtec tax breaks. |
| Work Mayor Adams Loses Showdown Over 2 Criminal Justice Bills  The Police Department will have to begin providing online quarterly reports about police stops to the public starting in October. Leaders in the Council have said the bill will help curb abuses of stop-and-frisk policing. |
| Work Brooklyn Jewish Newspaper’s Ex-Top Editor Pleads Guilty to Jan. 6 Charge  Citing court records, Justice Department officials said on Tuesday that Mr. Resnick had not been acting as a journalist that day. Shlomo Greenwald, who replaced Mr. Resnick as the paper’s top editor in May 2021, did not respond to email and phone inquiries on Tuesday. |
| Work Adams vs. Adams: New York’s Top Democrats Clash on City’s Path  She has questioned Mr. Adams’s management of the budget and criticized his approach to handling the influx of migrants as inhumane. She prompted the Council to pass the bills banning solitary confinement and improving police accountability, despite the mayor’s objections, and carried enough support to override his vetoes. |
| Work WNBA free agency and trade tracker: Latest deals and news  Canada was part of the Seattle Storm\'s 2018 and 2020 championship squads, and is a two-time All-Defensive first-team selection. She spent the past two seasons playing in Los Angeles, her hometown team and near her college of UCLA. |
| Work Nick Dunlap's pro debut and JT's aim to bounce back at rainy Pebble Beach  The other PAC members are Sam Burns, Nick Hardy, Brian Harman, Max Homa, Mackenzie Hughes, Keith Mitchell, Séamus Power, Scheffler, Adam Schenk, Kevin Streelman, Nick Taylor, Josh Teater, Thomas and Camilo Villegas. |
| Work Your friendly reminder: Upsets don't matter in Bracketology as much as you might think  In this projection, the committee selects and seeds the 16 best available teams. There are no automatic qualifiers, although all non-competing conference champions receive the designated revenue unit. |
| Work Sources: USMNT star Reyna set for Forest loan  Along with agent Jorge Mendes and father Claudio, Reyna was trying to find the best move possible, either on loan or on a permanent basis. Dortmund wanted around €15 million ($16.3m) to transfer him, sources told ESPN. |
| Work MSU's Izzo claims 700th win, on birthday, vs. U-M  Hall\'s layup tied the score at 39 and Walker followed with a layup to put the Spartans on top for the first time since they led 5-3. Akins\' 3-pointer capped a 7-0 run and Michigan State took its first two-possession lead with 16:32 left to play. Carson Cooper\'s three-point play pushed the margin to 52-42 at the 14:10 mark and the Spartans cruised from there. |
| Work Embiid set for MRI after exiting with knee injury  \"I can\'t speak to that, but we are going to continue to do all of the things that are necessary, that they\'ve been doing the whole time he\'s been playing here,\" Nurse said. \"He has these checks, he gets to these points, medicals are good, they check him again, he says he\'s good, he even said he felt good in the game tonight. We keep relaying to that.\" |
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| Work Walmart Sets 3-for-1 Stock Split; Shares Rise  Walmart recently said that the average store manager’s salary will increase to $128,000 from $117,000 and that it is redesigning its bonus program so that store profits play a bigger role in deciding awards. |
| Work Investors want big rate cuts in 2024 - but markets crashed the last time the Fed moved aggressively before a recession hit  The period in question was the 1985-1986 cutting cycle. The strategists pointed out that this policy easing cycle helped fuel stocks to massive rallies in both years, with the S&P 500 gaining 31% and 18%, respectively. |