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TUCSON, Ariz. (13News) – Retail and food service sales nationwide increased by billions of dollars between June and July.But a look at retailers in Southern Arizona shows sales declining across multiple industries.Sales are up 1 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, but some Tucson-area stores aren’t seeing the same increase.”Sales are always down in the summer,” said Holly Harper, owner of Birdhouse Yarns. “Usually people leave town after May. The snowbirds leave town for the summer, so that affects our sales and we get fewer visitors. We get a lot of visitors throughout the year, but not in the…

Story LinkWHEELING, WV – One week ago, the Wheeling University Athletics Department welcomed back the Wheeling football team for report day, and on Friday the rest of the fall sports programs will return to campus to prepare for the 2024-2025 season. Men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball, men’s and women’s rugby, men’s and women’s golf, and men’s and women’s cross country will all report and begin training camp.The 2023 Fall season was another successful one for the Cardinals, with two teams competing in their respective conference tournaments, and volleyball and men’s rugby each competing in the national tournament. Wheeling volleyball…

A Jewish man has been charged with attempted murder and hate crimes for his role in a months-long campaign of harassment and violence against his Muslim neighbors, authorities said.According to a criminal complaint filed by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, Brooklyn resident Isaac Kadosh has been charged with more than 40 counts, including attempted second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder as a hate crime, first-degree assault as a hate crime, second-degree theft and second-degree theft as a hate crime.The lawsuit says Kadosh’s attack was motivated by religious and ethnic differences with his neighbors.According to the criminal complaint, Kadosh told the neighbor…

San Francisco business owners, who are facing repeated break-ins, say they are being made worse by “false alarm” fees the city charges when burglar alarms go off.Kinani Ahmed reviewed pages and pages of invoices for thousands of dollars in false reporting fees issued by the San Francisco Treasurer and Tax Collector’s office.He showed a nearby shopkeeper evidence of one of several attempted break-ins he had recently had to deal with. “They picked the lock and went in. What are they after? There’s nothing there,” Ahmed said. A decade ago, Ahmed founded Sextant Coffee Roasters in the SoMa and Mission districts.…

Mortgage broker Cherise Morgan opened a coffee shop last year. (Source: TikTok/Courtesy)There’s some controversial advice often given to young Australians wanting to buy their first property: stop buying coffee. But one Australian mortgage broker is bucking this advice and opening his own coffee shop to cater to potential home buyers.Cherise Morgan’s coffee shop is located at the front of her mortgage brokerage in Redcliffe, which she opened last year, and she is offering six months of free coffee as a reward to anyone who takes out a mortgage through her business.The 26-year-old told Yahoo Finance that the “spontaneous” decision has…

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The new 2025 Lincoln Navigator is set to go on sale next spring.2024 Tyler Gourley Lincoln has unveiled the all-new 2025 Lincoln Navigator with a wide range of upgrades in design, technology and luxury. The 2025 Lincoln Navigator goes on sale next spring and will be priced above $100,000, but a look at the list of standard features even on the base model shows the latest version’s growing status in the full-size luxury segment. The Navigator’s 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6 engine carries over largely unchanged, producing 440 horsepower and 510 pound-feet of torque, but nearly every other aspect of the vehicle…

The police killing of a 26-year-old Korean-American woman has renewed calls for a better approach to how authorities deal with people suffering from mental health issues. Friends of Victoria Lee and Asian American community activists gathered outside a community center in Fort Lee on Thursday, calling on authorities to release the body camera footage that captured Lee’s death. “This investigation must be prompt and transparent – there must be no whitewashing or manipulation,” said Amber Reed, co-executive director of AAPI Montclair. “They deserve at least that much from a state that has so badly failed them.” According to the attorney…

LOS ANGELES — “Friends” actor Matthew Perry had an out-of-control addiction to ketamine, injecting the drug six to eight times a day before he died of an accidental overdose, prosecutors say.Five people have been charged in connection with Perry’s death, including his personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, and Dr. Salvador Plascencia, who allegedly supplied him with drugs.In court documents filed Thursday, federal prosecutors charged that Dr. Plascencia told his patient a week before Perry’s death that it was too late and that he was addicted to drugs, but then offered to sell ketamine through Mr. Iwamasa.Matthew Perry in 2015. Brian Ack/InVision/AP…

Police announced Thursday that they had arrested four people in connection with the shooting death of “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor, who authorities said was shot and killed in May after thwarting the theft of catalytic converters.In a statement, the Los Angeles Police Department identified the three suspects arrested on suspicion of murder as Robert Barcelo, 18, Leonel Guiterrez, 18, and Sergio Estrada, 18.Frank Orano, 22, is accused of being an accomplice, police said.They were arrested and evidence was discovered after the execution of search warrants across Los Angeles, the statement said.Their bail was set at $2 million, according to…