Month: May 2023

NEW YORK (WABC) — A local New York news legend has died: former Fox 5 anchor John Roland. For nearly 30 years, Roland delivered the news to New Yorkers at 10 every night. He first joined the station in 1969 when Channel 5 was still part of Metromedia. He took over as main presenter in 1979. Roland had a bold style that became familiar to everyone in New York. Roland retired in 2004, but his style influenced many journalists still working today. Roland was 81 years old. READ ALSO | Subway choking: Jordan Neely’s friend speaks out EMBED More videos…

A new ad from former President Trump paints the former president as a political outsider against the litany of legal troubles he faces, as well as his impeachments by Congress. “Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who do not have the same courage,” Trump’s voiceover says in the video on clips of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.). “Take the opportunity to be an outsider. Embrace that label,” Trump says in the video, paid for by Make America Great Again,…

HOUSTON – After months of calling for more gun control measures, a Democrat who represents Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children died in a mass shooting, the Republican leader of the state Senate told him to stop bringing up the legislation about weapons or was forbidden to speak. Absolutely not. In the state House, Republican members talked and joked with each other as another Democrat, Representative Jarvis Johnson of Houston, rose to speak about gun control. “This is not a joke, this is real,” he said he shouted from the lectern Friday to his colleagues. “Children die every day.” Just a…

In Spring of 2020, Tucker Carlson went to war with one of the most powerful figures on Fox News. Carlson had become so enraged with Fox’s head of communications and public relations, Irena Briganti, that he tried to fire her, people familiar with the matter told Rolling Stone. Briganti, formerly a key lieutenant to the late and disgraced Fox News mastermind Roger Ailes, had been an influential figure in the cable news industry for years, as the infamously aggressive enforcer of the public relations apparatus of Fox. But after years of mutual dislike between the executive and the high-profile host,…

(Update: adding video, winemaker comments) CULVER, Ore. (KTVZ) — At Culver’s Maragas Winery, they are finally seeing the buds break on their vines. This late spring has caused some delays in the process. “They’re all going to be like that, some of them a little more than others,” Doug Maragas, the winemaker, said Sunday. “But that’s what we call bud break. You see the bud open and the leaves form.” In the winery, they are finally starting to see the shoots of their vines begin. The recent weather has been very wet and cooler than last year. “This year because…

New pet health insurer makes strides Kanguro Insurance reported the sale of more than 1,000 pet health insurance policies since the company launched in September 2022. Kanguro operates in 17 states: Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Mexico and Nevada. , Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. The Miami-based insurer’s customer service representatives are bilingual in English and Spanish. AVMA Publishes “Positive Guide to Pet Care” The American Veterinary Medical Association partnered with Banfield Pet Hospital and other companies and organizations to produce the “Positive Guide to Pet Care.” The publication, available for download…

Washington CNN — Former President Donald Trump will not testify in the defamation and civil assault trial of E. Jean Carroll after his lawyer failed to inform the court of any change of strategy before a judge-imposed deadline of Sunday at 5 p.m. afternoon As attorneys for Carroll and Trump rested their respective cases at trial in Manhattan federal court Thursday evening, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan had left a window for Trump to testify, though the attorney for the former president said it would be highly unlikely. The judge said he had ordered the injunction in light of Trump’s…