Month: September 2019

Andrew Linscott/iStock(NEW YORK) — People widely support the conservation of wildlife, but lack an overall understanding of topics such as extinction due to lack of education, a new poll by National Geographic has found. A [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Imelda made landfall Tuesday in Freeport, Texas, as a minimal tropical storm with winds of 40 mph. No longer a tropical storm as of Wednesday, the system is just a heavy [Read More…]

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Dept.(INDIANAPOLIS) — An Indiana police officer who can be seen striking a 17-year-old student in the face on video has been charged in the incident and accused of lying about what went [Read More…]

Granville County(DURHAM, N.C.) — Granville County Sheriff Brindell Wilkins was indicted Monday after allegedly discussing killing a former deputy who he believed possessed an audio recording of him using “racially insensitive language.” A grand jury [Read More…]

AntonioGuillem/iStock(DILLON, Mont.) — Wildlife officials in Montana are trying to determine whether the same grizzly bear is responsible for attacking three different people in two separate incidents. The first attack occurred south of Cottonwood Creek [Read More…]

the_guitar_mann/iStock(NEW YORK) — Steve Dickson laid out the Federal Aviation Administration’s next steps in the recertification of the Boeing 737 MAX in the first month of his new term as FAA administrator, but now he’s [Read More…]

WABC-TV(NEW YORK) — Police officers responding to a disturbance at a home on Long Island, New York, fatally shot a man who lunged at them with a samurai sword, according to authorities. Officers arriving Friday [Read More…]

smolaw11/iStock(MCALESTER, Okla.) — Police arrested an Oklahoma teenager with a semi-automatic rifle this week after she allegedly threatened to target her former high school and “shoot 400 people for fun.” Alexis Wilson, 18, was arrested [Read More…]

The USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service has finalized its rule on swine slaughter inspection and says it will modernize the industry and improve food safety. Deputy Undersecretary Mindy Brashears tells Brownfield Ag News that contrary [Read More…]

seanfboggs/iStock(NEW YORK) — Police departments across the United States could have another gadget to add to their repertory: a Spider-Man-like device that fires a tether that can entangle and restrain a target. The device, called [Read More…]

macky_ch/iStock(TVER, Russia) — Russian Orthodox priests in the Central Russian city of Tver took to the skies in a small airplane to save citizens from “drunkenness and fornication,” reported a Russian local media outlet. On [Read More…]

danchooalex/iStock(ALBANY, New York) — New York state has banned the sale of flavored e-cigarettes amid growing national concern about the safety of the products. The ban went into effect after being approved by the state’s [Read More…]

A young dairy farmer says starting on his own as milk prices started to tank has forced him to become a better businessman. “If I didn’t figure out a way to do things in a [Read More…]

luchezar/iStock(NEW YORK) — Facebook on Tuesday revealed changes to policies for combating hate and extremism on its namesake platform and on Instagram, including updating its definition of terrorist organizations and revamping detection efforts. Some online [Read More…]

Anatoliy Sizov/iStock(PORTLAND, Ore.) — Scores of workers for Uber and Lyft were driving passengers around in Portland, Oregon, despite having offenses ranging from traffic violations to criminal records that should have barred them from doing [Read More…]

lucagavagna/iStock(NEW YORK) — Half of the world’s population may be malnourished by 2030 if current trends go unchecked, according to a new report. The report, Growing Better: Ten Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land [Read More…]