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BusinessFILE - This image shows the logo of WeightWatchers on a mobile phone, and the company's website, in New York, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) (Richard Drew, Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)NEW YORK – WeightWatchers is shaking up its leadership.WW International announced Friday that CEO Sima Sistani would leave her role effective immediately. Tara Comonte, a WeightWatchers board member and former Shake Shack executive, was made interim chief executive.The New York-based weight loss company […]

WorldCopyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reservedFamilies gather in Martyrs' square after fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in Beirut's southern suburbs, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)BEIRUT – Smoke was still rising from Beirut’s southern suburbs Saturday morning, visible to many of the families who had fled their homes there the night before to escape Israel’s massive bombardment.It had been a harrowing night — getting out amid earthshaking explosions, looking in vain for space in one of the overflowing […]

FloridaDeaths included traffic fatalities, impacts from storm surgeFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds a news conference in Taylor County on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (Copyright 2024 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.)TAYLOR COUNTY, Fla. – Eleven people died in Florida as Hurricane Helene made landfall as a powerful Category 4 storm in the Big Bend region late Thursday night, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Saturday morning during a news conference in Taylor County covered by News 6 partner News4JAX.The deaths included traffic fatalities […]

Local NewsApopka Commissioner Nick Nesta hosts quarterly cleanup projectNeighbors help clean up Apopka after Hurricane Helene (Copyright 2024 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.)APOPKA, Fla. – What started as a park cleanup project turned into neighbors helping neighbors clean up yard debris after Hurricane Helene.Jeannie Jessup is one of the four people who volunteers helped clean up debris at their home after the storm.“I thought, I never ask for help, but I’m going to reach out and I thought […]

TrafficCrash occurred on Jones Avenue, east of Laughlin RoadPolice lights and sirens (FILE) (Copyright 2024 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)ZELLWOOD, Fla. – A 41-year-old Orlando man driving a pickup truck through Zellwood died after crashing into a stopped tractor trailer early Saturday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.The crash occurred around 3 a.m. as the man drove east on Jones Avenue, east of Laughlin Road, troopers said, adding the tractor trailer was stopped facing north at a driveway […]

WorldA fire burns at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburbs Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) (Bilal Hussein, Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)DUBAI – A prominent general in Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard died in an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Iranian media reported Saturday. The killing of Gen. Abbas Nilforushan marks the latest casualty suffered by Iran as the nearly yearlong Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip […]