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Saving ‘our way’: How young Italians are preserving their rare dialect

Responsibility Europe Saving ‘our way’: How young Italians are preserving their rare dialect | View caption Hide caption The number of people who speak “na-našo,” a centuries-old Croatian dialect found in Italy’s Molise region, is dwindling. But young people brought up in the language are determined to see it survive. Older members of the community…

Earthquake rattles Southern California as Tropical Storm Hilary hits

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit the Ojai, California, area on Sunday afternoon, as Tropical Storm Hilary was making its way up into Southern California. “We are in the middle of the first tropical storm since 1939, and we just had an earthquake,” Ventura County Fire Director of Communications Scott Thomsen told the Los Angeles Times. There…

San Francisco’s iconic Anchor Brewing is closing after 127 years

Anchor Brewing Co., the iconic San Francisco brewery opened in 1896 and purchased by Japan’s Sapporo in 2017, announced Wednesday it has stopped brewing its ales and will cease operations in the coming weeks. Anchor spokesman Sam Singer said the brewery was “losing millions of dollars a year” and had informed its 61 employees of…