Author: Associated Press
Although Max Verstappen clinched his third straight Formula One title almost two months ago on the Qatar GP there was never any probability of him easing up. He’s won every race since and capped off an excellent yr with a record-extending nineteenth victory of the season on the Abu Dhabi GP on Sunday. “I feel that’s just something how I grew up, I just can’t come right into a race weekend not giving my all,” Verstappen said. “I’d just get annoyed with myself after which I do know people around me get annoyed with me. My mindset didn’t change after…
CHICAGO — Sophee Langerman was on her strategy to a bicycle safety rally in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood in June when a automobile turning right rolled through a red light and slammed into her bike, which she was walking off the curb and into the crosswalk. The automobile was moving slowly enough that Langerman escaped serious injury, however the bicycle required extensive repairs. To Langerman, it’s one other argument for ending a practice that nearly all U.S. cities have embraced for a long time: the legal prerogative for a driver to show right after stopping at a red light. A dramatic…
MEXICO CITY — Max Verstappen split the Ferrari front row of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz firstly to grab the lead of the Formula One Mexico City Grand Prix by the primary corner, then drove off to his record sixteenth victory of the season on Sunday. Red Bull’s three-time season champion collected his third consecutive win on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez and broke his own season victories record set last 12 months. Verstappen began from third and won from the identical spot as he did in 2021. Back then, he used the slingshot effect of the draft down the long…
Jennifer Byrne, owner and technician at Cozy Heating and Cooling, works on an air con condenser unit in Philadelphia. (AP) PHILADELPHIA — When Jennifer Byrne, owner and technician at Cozy Heating and Cooling, gets a call to return and fix a comparatively latest air con system, one among the primary questions she asks is that if the home has just been remodeled. Here in West Philadelphia, Byrne has found shoddy renovations where installers skip steps equivalent to pressure testing after installation. That may end up in ice buildup and leaks of the chemicals that cool, called refrigerants. “This problem…
A vehicle drives past a memorial for 5-year-old Allie Hart, who was struck and killed in 2021 by a driver while riding her bicycle in a crosswalk in Washington. (AP) NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Alyssa Milligan was someone who intuitively knew when one other person needed help, encouragement or a sort word. Although she was latest to Tennessee, the 23-year old physical therapy student, whose mother called her “Sweet Alyssa,” had already made many close connections, especially inside the tight-knit cycling community around Nashville — before she was killed this month, struck by a pickup truck while cycling with a…
Canadian autoworkers ratified a brand new labor agreement with Ford on Sunday, averting a threatened strike and potentially setting a precedent that would play out within the United Auto Employees’ strike at automaker facilities within the U.S. The brand new agreement raises base hourly pay for production employees by almost 20% over three years, and by greater than 25% for trade employees, the Canadian autoworker union Unifor said. It also gives everlasting employees a $10,000 bonus and adds a cost-of-living adjustment, a mechanism that adjusts wages in keeping with inflation. Ford described the pact as a 15% wage increase over…
United Auto Staff President Shawn Fain, middle, walks within the Labor Day parade in Detroit on Monday. (AP) DETROIT — General Motors’ first wage-and-benefit offer to the United Auto Staff on Thursday fell far wanting the union’s initial demands. The offer comes just every week before the UAW’s national contracts with GM, Stellantis and Ford expire, and regardless that either side are far apart, it’s an indication of movement on economic issues. Still, union President Shawn Fain called the offer “insulting.” He’s threatening to strike against any automaker that hasn’t reached a tentative agreement by the point contracts expire…
TORONTO — Police west of Toronto on Wednesday warned drivers to maintain their automotive windows closed after a truck spilled crates carrying five million bees onto a road. Halton Regional Police said they received a call around 6:15 a.m. reporting the bee crates had come loose from a truck and spilled onto Guelph Line, north of Dundas Street, in Burlington, Ontario, just west of Toronto. It was “quite the scene,” Constable Ryan Anderson said. “Crates were literally on the road and swarms of bees were flying around,” he said. “The initial beekeeper that was on scene was apparently stung a…
