Biddeford Mayor Marty Groman is promoting a community event to support the family of Sergeant Jacob Walter Beck, who was killed in a car crash in December. The event, called Mayor’s Night Out, will take place on Wednesday night, with 18 local restaurants participating by donating a portion of their proceeds or offering donation links. The mayor and other local dignitaries will attend, and celebrities might be present. Additionally, donations can be made online through the Trooper Black Foundation. The family of Sergeant Beck is deeply grateful for the support.
Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed Monday as powerful storms swept across the eastern half of the country and a partial government shutdown affecting airport security screeners dragged into a second month.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
