How to start the new year with a clean inbox
By KELVIN CHAN, Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — The new year is always a good time to make a fresh start — including with your email inbox. To kick off 2025 with a clean slate, why not clear out all those unnecessary and unwanted messages?
If you’re anything like me, you’ll have piles of messages that have been accumulating in your inbox: receipts, bank and credit card statements, mobile phone bills, plane tickets, restaurant bookings, reminders, security warnings, spam and more.
Mixed in with all that administrative detritus might be some personal missives from friends and family that are worth keeping.
Babcock Ranch Seafood & Music Festival: Fresh Flavors and Live Music in a Sustainable Community
Mark your calendars for February 14-16, 2025, as the Babcock Ranch Seafood & Music Festival returns for an exciting weekend of fresh seafood, live music, and family-friendly fun. Held at 42850 Crescent Loop in Babcock Ranch, this festival celebrates the unique flavors and sounds of Southwest Florida festivals in a setting that highlights the region’s …
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Media companies scrap Venu Sports streaming service before it even started
The planned streaming service Venu Sports has been scrapped before it ever started.
Latest citrus projections for Florida low but hold steady after hurricane-damaged season
TALLAHASSEE — With a major grower set to exit the business, Florida’s struggling citrus industry saw little change Friday in a production forecast for the hurricane-damaged growing season.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released an updated forecast that kept projections for orange and grapefruit production the same as in a December forecast. The December numbers were the first projections after Hurricane Milton pounded citrus-growing areas in October.
Meanwhile, Friday’s forecast lowered projections for specialty crops, mostly tangerines and tangelos, by about 14 percent.
The forecast projected Florida will produce 12 million 90-pound boxes of oranges and 1.2 million boxes of grapefruit this season. It projected 300,000 boxes of specialty fruits, down from an estimate of 350,000 boxes in December.
Overall, the industry is facing a harvest in the 2024-2025 season that would be 19.64 percent lower than what was projected before Milton hit the state. It also would be 33 percent below the 2023-2024 harvest, which itself was a 94-year low — and would be the lowest overall since the 1918-1919 growing season.
The Trump company is not banning private foreign deals, a break with its first term policy
By BERNARD CONDON
NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump family business released a voluntary ethics agreement Friday that allows it to strike deals with private foreign companies, a move that could help outside actors try to buy influence with the new administration.