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14-year old dies in Henry County car crash
HENRY COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) – Virginia State Police (VSP) is investigating a crash that left a 14-year-old dead and a 16-year-old hospitalized. The crash happened on Friday at 1:35 p.m. on Great Road, just a half a mile south of Dillons Fork Road in Henry County. A 2003 Ford Explorer was driving north on Great…
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UP Weather: बरेली में लुढ़का तापमान, बारिश से बढ़ेगी ठिठुरन, जानिए मौसम का हाल
लखनऊ: उत्तर प्रदेश में अगले एक दिन बाद यानी 27 नवंबर को प्रदेश का मौसम पूरी तरह से बदल सकता है। इस अवधि में कई हिस्सों में बारिश और गरज के साथ बौछारें भी पड़ सकती है। उधर न्यूनतम तापमान धीरे धीरे गिरता ही जा रहा है। इस सीजन का सबसे कम न्यूनतम तापमान 8℃…
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When this truce ends, the decisive next phase of war begins
By Paul AdamsBBC News BBC Israel’s military campaign in Gaza City is probably in its final stages. The truce, brokered to allow for the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, will delay the IDF by anywhere from four to nine days, depending on how many hostages Hamas decides to release. When that ends, Israeli…
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East Texas hospital network can’t receive ambulances because of potential cybersecurity incident
CNN — A network of hospitals in East Texas has not been able to accept ambulances to emergency rooms since Thanksgiving Day because of a “potential [cyber]security incident,” a hospital spokesperson told CNN on Friday. The hospital network, UT Health East Texas, is operating using “established downtime procedures” as the hospital investigates “a potential security incident” and works to bring computers back online, spokesperson Allison Pollan said in an email. Pollan did not respond to subsequent phone calls seeking more information on the incident and how the hospitals were responding. She declined to answer further questions over email. Headquartered in Tyler, Texas, UT Health East Texas operates 10 hospitals and more than 90 clinics in the region, and provides health care to thousands of patients annually, according to its LinkedIn page. The East Texas health care system is…
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Book Deals: Week of November 27, 2023
Yarros Re-ups with Montlake Lauren Plude at Montlake has acquired world rights for two more standalone contemporary romance books by bestselling author Rebecca Yarros. The first of the as-yet-untitled books is expected to be published in fall 2025, with the second due in fall 2026. The deal was brokered by Louise Fury of the Fury…
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Yahdon Israel Pulls Back the Curtain on Publishing
In March 2021, days after he was hired as a senior editor at Simon & Schuster, Yahdon Israel went on Instagram Live to tell his thousands of followers what kind of books he was looking to acquire—essentially a call for submissions, which Big Five editors rarely put out. He would be acquiring eight to 12…
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Automating Intelligence: PW Talks with Dennis Yi Tenen
In Literary Theory for Robots (Norton, Feb.), English professor Tenen delves into the history of text-generating technology. How did you come to study literary machines? My start with computers came in the early 1990s with the desktop publishing revolution. I got a job with this little press out of Birmingham, Mich., that was publishing books…
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Miami (Ohio) vs. Ball State live stream, how to watch online, CBS Sports Network channel finder, odds
USATSI It’s hard to believe, but we’ve already reached Week 13 of the college football season, and CBS Sports Network is back with a Thanksgiving feast of five games over the holiday weekend. On Saturday, a triple-header takes center stage. The action starts with Miami (Ohio) traveling to Ball State, as the RedHawks look to…
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Dublin riots: Immigrations complicated role in growing Ireland’s far right
By Shane HarrisonFormer BBC News Dublin Correspondent Brian Lawless/PA Violence broke out hours after a separate stabbing incident outside a primary school in the city centre The Republic of Ireland’s police chief has blamed rioting in Dublin city centre on Thursday on a “lunatic, hooligan faction driven by a far-right ideology”. Disorder broke out hours…
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New Hampshire man had no car and no furniture, but he left his town millions
Estimated read time: 6-7 minutes HINSDALE, N.H. — Geoffrey Holt was unassuming as the caretaker of a mobile home park in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, where he lived a simple, but curious life. Residents would see Holt around town in threadbare clothes — riding his lawn mower, headed to the convenience store, parked along the main…