Carmaker Stellantis reports record 1H margins, $7b profits
Automaker Stellantis says it achieved faster-than-expected progress on synergies and record margins in its first six months as a combined company, despite suffering 700,000 units in lower production due to interruptions in the semiconductor supply chain.
SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Election-year retirement unlikely
In this March 26, 2009 file photo, Connecticut state Supreme Court Justice Richard Palmer, center, questions attorneys at the Connecticut Supreme Court in Hartford, Conn. Palmer, who authored the landmark Connecticut Supreme Court rulings that legalized same-sex marriage and abolished the state's death penalty, is stepping down after 27 years on the high court. (AP Photo/Bob Child, Pool)WASHINGTON The last time a Supreme Court justice announced his retirement in a presidential election year, most of the current justices were too young to vote. The nomination to replace Chief Justice Earl Warren failed in that turbulent year, and no justice has retired in an election year since. Charles Cooper, who argued the S&Ls' case at the Supreme Court, recalled that a resolution was urgently needed because scores of copy-cat cases had been clogging" court dockets for years. When Burger was chief justice, from 1969 to 1986, the court routinely kept working into July, even past Independence Day.
Police: Man arrested after downtown St. Augustine stabbing
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - A man was arrested after a stabbing early Sunday morning in downtown St. Augustine, police said. After Palmer was placed into a patrol vehicle, according to the St. Augustine Police Department, officers found a knife in his front pocket and 13 counterfeit $100 bills in his wallet. Upcoming town hall meeting on nightlife planThe weekend stabbing happened ahead of a town hall meeting about a Quality of Nightlife Strategic Plan that was canceled due to Hurricane Dorian and rescheduled for next week. At a St. Augustine City Commission meeting last month, City Manager John Regan presented the five-point plan to address concerns raised by the changing character of the historic city's downtown nightlife environment. St. Augustine Police Chief Barry Fox and St. Augustine City Commissioner Nancy Sikes-Kline will be participating in the discussion.