Month: March 2019

Gov. Kristi Noem says the state Board of Water and Natural Resources has approved an additional $1,295,750 to the funding package for Mitchell to make storm water, sanitary sewer and drinking water system improvements on [Read More…]

Birute/iStock(ROME) — Following his visit to the United Arab Emirates last month, Pope Francis sets off on another trip this weekend to continue his effort to foster interfaith dialogue and strengthen relations with Islam and [Read More…]

Corona Police Dept.(CORONA, Calif.) — Weeks after 8-year-old Noah McIntosh vanished, his father has been charged with first-degree murder, police announced Friday. But authorities are still searching for the boy’s body. The case began on [Read More…]

IKvyatkovskaya/iStock(LONDON) — A painting assumed to be an imitation of one of Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli’s most famous works has been revealed to be an original from Botticelli’s own studio, according to the conservation charity [Read More…]

izusek/iStock(NEW YORK) — If you have a craft brewery in your neighborhood, drink up — your property value may just have gotten a boost, according to University of Toledo researchers. Craft brewery operations are springing [Read More…]

diegograndi/iStock(NEW YORK) — Two people have died in separate incidents at the Grand Canyon this week, including a tourist who fell 1,000 feet into the canyon while attempting to take photos. The man fell early [Read More…]

Sarah Stegall/U.S. Marine Corps(PARRIS ISLAND, S.C.) — The first integrated company of male and female recruits will graduate from Marine Corps boot camp on Friday. The service will now assess the company’s training results to [Read More…]

Illinois State Police(CHICAGO) — An Illinois state trooper died in the line of duty on Thursday when a semitrailer slammed into her during a highway traffic stop. Brooke Jones-Story, 34, was on the shoulder of [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — A strong spring storm that pounded the San Francisco Bay area with hail on Thursday moves into the central U.S. Friday, bringing heavy rain to the flooded Missouri and Mississippi rivers [Read More…]

BlakeDavidTaylor/iStock(TAMPA, Fla.) — A man wanted for murder in Florida was arrested in Mexico this week after more than 20 years on the run, authorities said. Israel Carrillo, 68, was located in Mexico and arrested [Read More…]

Astronauts Kathryn D. Sullivan, left, and Sally K. Ride are pictured in orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in October 1984. (NASA) (NEW YORK) — For the first time in U.S. history, an all-woman team [Read More…]

Family Photo(WALTERBORO, S.C.) —  Parents in a South Carolina community say they are irate by the lack of information being shared by school board members after the death of Raniya Wright, a fifth-grader who was [Read More…]

phot705/iStock(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — The Maryland General Assembly has voted to name June 28 “Freedom of the Press Day” in honor of the Capital Gazette victims who died in a shooting in the newspaper’s Annapolis newsroom [Read More…]

kickstand/iStock(NEW YORK) – There were bullet holes in the window screen and the curtains, but the main witness said the two shooters were inside and at the foot of her bed. The witness said she [Read More…]

Dobresum/iStock(HARRISBURG, Pa.) — The four cooling silos still loom over Three Mile Island, each rising nearly 400 feet above Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River as a constant reminder of both the potential of clean energy and the [Read More…]

The South Dakota Department of Public Safety has released the names of the two people who died last Thursday afternoon in a one-vehicle crash northeast of Letcher. A 2000 Mack Truck CH600 garbage truck was [Read More…]

Pureradiancephoto/iStock(ALBANY, N.Y.) — New York State is suing the family behind the company that makes OxyContin, expanding an already existing lawsuit against other opioid manufacturers and distributors. New York state Attorney General Letitia James is [Read More…]