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WEST MONROE, La. (KNOE) – Six local business owners have received the 2024 Small Business of the Year Award from the West Monroe-West Ouachita Chamber of Commerce.More than 50 companies were nominated in the Emerging Entrepreneurs, Small Businesses, Women Champions, Community Champions and Silver Plus Award categories.Here is the list of winners:budding entrepreneurChris Lewis, Coney Island Connection West Monroesmall businesswomen’s championDr. Keri Cataldo RogersSharon Pleasantcommunity championKaren Laban.Spice and Tea Exchange West Monroesilver plus awardMulhearn Funeral Home and FloristWMWO Chamber Executive Director Christopher Kelly congratulated the award winners and nominees.“With a group of over 50 outstanding nominations across categories, we are…
Interstate 70 is closed in both directions in the western Denver metropolitan area after a tanker truck crash caused a fire and killed one person. As a result, traffic was backed up for miles in both directions late Thursday morning. Image from CBS News Colorado viewer Kevin K. It shows a tanker on fire and a plume of black smoke from the crash that shut down Interstate 70 west of Denver near Morrison. Kevin K. The accident occurred just before 9:30 a.m. and involved a tanker truck and one other vehicle. The tanker overheated and was parked on the side…
Jill Kuramoto and Nicole Napnoa 47 minutes ago HONOLULU (KOHN) – Miss Hawaii from Maui was officially crowned Miss USA, and a celebratory coronation ceremony was held in Honolulu. The Miss USA organization crowned Savannah Gankiewicz on Wednesday, days after previous titleholder Noelia Voigt returned the crown on May 6. Vogt cited his “mental health” when announcing his vacating the title on his Instagram page. It was the first time a Miss USA title holder would relinquish her crown. Originally named No. 1 in September, Gankiewicz stepped into the role with hopes of bringing a symbol of resilience and aloha…
For the first time since three tornadoes struck Tallahassee on May 10, the Florida State University baseball team will play at home tonight, opening a season-ending trifecta against Georgia Tech.Damage to Dick Hauser Stadium, home of No. 10 FSU (37-13, 15-11 ACC), on Friday included a toppled screen and a bent foul pole in the right field seats. Ta. The Seminoles will be looking to strengthen their NCAA Tournament resume with a regional tournament in two weeks. Georgia Tech (30-19, 14-13) hopes to set him up for a breakthrough in the ACC Tournament next week.Tonight’s projected starting pitchers are the…
Former Army sergeant Daniel Perry, who was convicted of killing a Black Lives Matter protester in downtown Austin in 2020, was sentenced Thursday after Gov. Greg Abbott signed a pardon proclamation. He was released within hours.In a rapid-fire series of events lasting less than two hours, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended that Perry, a convicted murderer, be pardoned. Abbott then granted Perry a full pardon and released him from the Mack Stringfellow unit in Rosharon, about 20 miles south of downtown Houston.Perry may also be able to apply to have his record expunged, according to the Texas…
Raleigh, North Carolina — The North Carolina Senate passed a bill Wednesday along party lines that would ban wearing masks in public for health reasons, after an emotional debate over the wisdom of the proposal.Republican supporters of the ban said it would help police crack down on demonstrators wearing masks. Some lawmakers said there was growing concern that protesters were abusing the pandemic-era norm of wearing masks that conceal their identities.The current page does not support this embedded media. To view this article in fully functional media, please visit this page for the full site.”It’s time to at least slow…
Surrounded by gray-haired party supporters carrying Communist Party of India (Marxist) flags and shouting slogans, the energetic Srijan Bhattacharya weaved through Ward 97 in Kolkata’s Tollygunj, waving to locals. I greeted him. Assilverde Deven (Please bless us.) Mr Bhattacharya, 31, is one of a number of next-generation candidates fielded by the CPI(M) in key constituencies across West Bengal in the run-up to this year’s Sabah elections. He is running against 31-year-old actress Sajoni Ghosh, president of the West Bengal Trinamool Youth Congress, and Anirban Ganguly of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the urban constituency of Jadavpur. Jadavpur is scheduled to…
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will face off in the US presidential election on November 5, and it is expected to be a close race with divided opinions. Several third-party candidates are also running. Donald Trump, who will serve as president from 2017 to 2021, secured enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination and set up the first presidential rematch in nearly 70 years. Biden won the party’s nomination in March but faced no viable challenger. (AFP) {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} The list of candidates is as follows:republican party Unlock exclusive access to the latest news on…
market news Soybeans, corn, and wheat prices continue to trend downwards. Soybean prices fell mainly due to spread trading and profit taking. The contract started higher but was unable to continue due to weak weekly old crop export sales and weak soybean meal price movements. Old crop export sales were down from 9.8 million bushels a week ago, with Egypt and Indonesia topping the list, and both destination unknown and China had net cancellations. Although shipments were slightly higher than needed to meet USDA forecasts for this year, global demand for U.S. soybeans remains constrained by Brazil’s market dominance and…
When Covid-19 restrictions forced the island’s schools into darkness in early 2020, teachers taught online and stranded children contacted each other via mobile phones and social media. Thousands of video screens lit up during the shooting. This technology has become a lifeline for orphaned children in a community. But four years later, personal devices have become ubiquitous both inside and outside of the classroom, and educators say they struggle to capture student attention in educational environments filled with on-screen distractions. ing. The Gazette recently spoke with a group of high school teachers during midday flextime (just over an hour of…