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15 counties with the highest unemployment in Texas

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:00 GMT

STACKER — While significantly lower than the alarming pandemic peak of 14.7% experienced in April 2020, unemployment rates remain a subject of concern, though experts' views on a potential recession are mixed. The last economic recession—the Great Recession of 2007-2009—sent rates up to 10% as of October 2009. It was not until the spring of 2019 that unemployment finally went down to the same level it sits at now.As of May 2023, national unemployment is at 3.4%, with little change from April. Seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state demonstrate a rather sizable spectrum, ranging from just 1.9% in South Dakota to 5.4% in Nevada.Stacker compiled a list of counties with the highest unemployment rates in Texas using Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Counties are ranked by their preliminary unemployment rate in May 2023, with initial ties broken by the number of unemployed people within that county, though some ties may remain. County-level unemployment rates are not seasonally adj...

Rockford Beach reopens after drowning and increase in violence

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:00 GMT

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. - Rockford Beach Park on the big river is reopening after being shut down for the past two weekends. The closures came after authorities had to address an increase in violence and even a drowningThe park is opening right now, but officials came up with a plan to deal with issues that started to ramp up at the start of the summer. From this weekend forward, there will now be a sheriff's deputy on site during peak hours.Jefferson County authorities shared that overcrowding was the common thread in the rising fights, stealing, assault, underage drinking, and a drowning. A 41-year-old St. Louis man drowned there July 3, after jumping from the bluff into the river. 3-year-old boy from southern Illinois advances in 2023 USA Mullet Competition Then just three weeks after that, officials had to rescue a man who got stuck on a rock shelf just above an area of Rocky rapids. Overcrowding was making it much harder for authorities to get to visitors quickly in case of em...

Sunny to partly cloudy skies with highs around 90 Sunday, highs in upper 90s during work week

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:00 GMT

ST. LOUIS - We have just a few isolated weak storms out there that will continue to diminish over the next couple of hours. Then we're set to have mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies and seasonable temperatures around 90. Another slight chance of isolated showers and storms is expected by mid to late afternoon and early evening. Anything that bubbles up will diminish by around sunset. St. Louis radar: See a map of current weather here We then turn our attention to heat and increasing humidity for the work week. Monday will be hotter and sunny. Monday night, we are watching the chance of a complex of storms impacting some of the region into early Tuesday. Still some uncertainty on whether this will materialize.The rest of the work week will be in the mid to upper 90s with heat index values in the triple digits. 

2 men injured in St. Louis City shooting, police investigating

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:00 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Police are investigating a shooting in St. Louis City that injured two men over the weekend.The shooting took place at around 12:15 p.m. Saturday, where two men were shot on North Kingshighway Boulevard. Both victims are currently in stable condition. Rockford Beach reopens after drowning and increase in violence St. Louis City Police are investigating. FOX 2 will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

As petition circulators arrived in Colorado last year, their firm already was under the microscope in Florida

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:00 GMT

In February 2022, a group of petition circulators arrived in Colorado to gather signatures for Republican political campaigns.They worked for Grassfire LLC, a Wyoming-based petition and canvassing firm. The circulators’ job: Collect enough signatures for three candidates to make the ballot in their respective races. One targeted an open congressional seat anchored in Jefferson County. The other two concerned a statehouse candidate and a sheriff hopeful, both in Douglas County.Investigators later would charge six of these circulators with forging signatures on two of the campaigns, using dead and out-of-state voters to fill their quotas.That same month, 1,600 miles away, Florida authorities announced a statewide investigation into widespread fraud concerning a constitutional initiative to expand gambling. Election supervisors told the secretary of state they had thousands of invalid signatures streaming into their offices.Now the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is probing...

Improving Investor Behavior: Financial and time independence – what’s your score? 

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:00 GMT

My business coach, Dan Sullivan, often speaks of freedoms. It’s his belief that entrepreneurs create and own businesses primarily for the freedom to conduct business in their own way. They often aren’t seeking freedom “from” something per se, but rather freedom “to” something. They may desire to escape from the doldrums of an office or an overbearing boss, but more often they want the freedom to pursue endeavors that invite excitement and challenge in their lives. They want to choose the people with whom they work, the purposes they wish to develop, and how they spend their resources and time.The single freedom that most resonates with entrepreneurs is typically freedom of time — our most valuable resource. Money is renewable; we can always work to make more of it. But time is limited; there are only so many hours in a day, and so many days in a life. For most in the U.S., time is so valuable that it’s often tied directly to our compensation in the form of an hourly wage. Entreprene...

With DACA’s days likely numbered, Colorado advocates urge young immigrants to seek other avenues to keep working

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:00 GMT

In the sterile office of an immigration attorney, 15-year-old Annie Aviles-Zamora tuned out the lawyer’s words as she felt her world crumble.Aviles-Zamora and her mother met with the attorney in 2017 to begin the teen’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, application process. Aviles-Zamora craved a driver’s license and a job like her friends, but being brought from Mexico to the United States when she was 4 years old precluded her from the same opportunities.When Aviles-Zamora’s mother learned about DACA, she thought it could guarantee her hardworking daughter a normal life. The Obama-era program provided two years of renewable protection from deportation and work permits to people who were brought to this country without documentation as children.The mother-daughter duo entered the office buoyant, preparing for celebration. But they were too late, the attorney informed them.“I was gutted,” said Aviles-Zamora, now a 21-year-old studen...

Azerbaijan President gives insight into prospect of peace with Armenia

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:00 GMT

President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has held a question-and-answer session with some 200 members of the press from around the world, gathered in the city of Shusha. It was recaptured from Armenia in 2020, during the Second Karabakh War. Since that conflict, a peace agreement has proved elusive, writes Political Editor Nick Powell from the Shusha Global Media Forum.President Ilham Aliyev took questions from journalists for nearly three hours at the Shusha Global Media Forum,.He described the forum as “a remarkable event for our country and for Karabakh”. Shusha, he added, is a symbol of Azerbaijan’s victory in the Second Karabakh War but also of peace; after it was liberated the war stopped.Shusha has been officially declared by presidential decree the cultural capital of Azerbaijan. The government is restoring the city’s monuments after the Armenian occupation when Shusha’s traditional 17 mosques and 17 springs were destroyed. Five of the springs again have water.President Ilham...

A’s fans ask SF Giants crowd to join anti-Fisher protest at Bay Bridge Series

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:00 GMT

A’s fans made plenty of noise last month with their “reverse boycott” at the Coliseum, then organized “Sell the team” chants at the All-Star Game in Seattle two weeks ago. Now they are seeking to make their protest tour a trilogy, with eyes on San Francisco.Two A’s fan groups, the Oakland 68s and Last Dive Bar, are joining forces again to stage another set of demonstrations at the first Bay Bridge matchup in 2023. Thousands of Oakland fans are expected to flood Oracle Park Tuesday night and push yet again for John Fisher’s ouster as A’s owner before he can move the team to Las Vegas.More than that, they are hoping their cross-bay rivals join in.Protesting in an opponent’s ballpark could be seen as antagonistic to the host team, especially one as nearby as the Giants. But despite moments of intensity between the two Bay Area ballclubs — including the 1989 World Series — fans of both teams don’t really view this as a rivalry.“I have friends who are Giants fans and I’ve never really ta...

Baseball’s wildest show, Savannah Bananas, descending on San Jose

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:56:00 GMT

Dylan Porter needed to show more than his 95 mph fastball, so in the middle of his pitching windup, he dropped into a squat. His body inches from the ground, one leg extended, he seemed to be performing a yoga pose.Then he burst out of the squat, fired the pitch, and got the job: Pitcher for the Savannah Bananas, the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball, or in their own words “The World Famous Baseball Circus.”“The Bananas are looking for something people haven’t seen on a baseball field,” said Porter, 25, who grew up in Oakland and joined the Bananas last year. “They’re looking for uniqueness but also talent. They want a good mix.”Excite Ballpark, home of the San Jose Giants, will be packed Tuesday night for a carefully-timed two-hour game of Banana Ball, a sport that combines baseball with unusual entertainment and strives to make each night unique, a la a Grateful Dead show. Founded in 2016, the Bananas have rapidly become a sensation, with 500,000 fans on a ticket waitlist and 4 mil...