Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Turnbull to pitch in Toledo, working his way back into Tigers rotation
TOLEDO, OH (WKZO AM/FM) – Detroit Tigers pitcher Spencer Turnbull is slated to start tomorrow at the team’s alternate training site in Toledo. Turnbull has been on the injured list due to ...
Apr 14, 2021
Canada to go big on budget spending as pandemic lingers, election looms
By Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Liberal government will deliver on its promise to spend big when it presents its first budget in two years next week amid a fast-rising third wave of COVID-...
Apr 14, 2021
‘Super-spreader’ erupts as devout Hindus throng Indian festival
By Anushree Fadnavis and Neha Arora HARIDWAR, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of ash-smeared ascetics and devout Hindus jostled to take a dip in the Ganges during a religious festival on Wedne...
Apr 14, 2021
How the pandemic helped Walmart battle Amazon Marketplace for sellers
By Richa Naidu CHICAGO (Reuters) - Between 2009 and 2014, Walmart's Marketplace business, where outside merchants hawk everything from baby blankets to power tools, counted no more than six sellers, a...
Apr 14, 2021
Explainer – More guns than people: Why tighter U.S. firearms laws are unlikely
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden announced limited measures to tackle gun violence in the United States last week, but more ambitious steps will be harder to enact despite w...
Apr 14, 2021
Pistons try to halt Clippers winning streak as the two square off tonight
DETROIT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The Detroit Pistons and the Los Angeles Clippers square off tonight at Little Caesars Arena. The Clippers beat the Pistons 131-124 in L.A. Sunday. Detroit has dropped ...
Apr 14, 2021
Vietnamese Americans start self-defense course in wake of Atlanta shootings
By Daniel Trotta GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (Reuters) - When tragedy struck across the country in Georgia, Tam Nguyen helped fellow members of his Southern California Vietnamese-American community start def...
Apr 14, 2021
MSU forward Kithier enters transfer portal
EAST LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Michigan State University men’s basketball is losing another player as forward Thomas Kithier has entered the NCAA transfer portal. The junior is set to gra...
Apr 14, 2021
Canada’s migrant farmworkers remain at risk a year into pandemic
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - Pedro, a Mexican migrant worker, knew he had to leave the Ontario cannabis operation where he worked when so many of his coworkers caught COVID-19 that his e...
Apr 14, 2021
Ukraine rehearses repelling tank attack near Russian-annexed Crimea
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's armed forces rehearsed repelling a tank and infantry attack near the border of Russian-annexed Crimea on Wednesday, the Ukrainian military said in a statement. The drills ca...
Apr 14, 2021
