Jan. 15—Maybe it was because I had just read “Those We Thought We Knew,” an unblinkingly honest treatise about the state of U.S. race relations disguised as a Southern gothic whodunnit by acclaimed novelist David Joy, who resides in Jackson County. Maybe it was because I found myself clutching my wife’s arm a bit tighter […]
Jan. 15—NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION, TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE Texas’ natural gas production, processing, transmission, and storage sectors continue to have needed production and storage. Production has declined slightly overnight as to be expected with colder weather. Localized issues, including compression outages, suspension of water hauling, and instrument performance were experienced overnight but personnel are in place […]
Jan. 15—AUSTIN — With the winter storm encompassing the entire state and temperatures forecasted to be colder Monday evening and into Tuesday morning, ERCOT is asking Texans to conserve electricity use, if safe to do so, Tuesday, January 16, from 6 a.m. — 9 a.m. ERCOT is forecasting higher demand Tuesday morning as Texans return […]
Jan. 15—A 73-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after two children told a forensic interviewer he’d molested them. According to an Ector County Sheriff’s Office report, an employee of a South Carolina children’s advocacy center called the sheriff’s department on Nov. 17 to report two girls under the age of 14 had reported being molested at […]
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Four people including the pilot died and another person was critically injured when their hot air balloon crashed into the Arizona desert on Sunday after eight skydivers had successfully jumped out of the basket, investigators said. The Kubicek BB 85 Z balloon went down on Sunday in Eloy, about 65 […]
A July 1966 photo shows Numo the African lion with its owner, Rolland Stevenson, during a circus performance in Nebraska. The story of lion owners Rolland and Sheila Stevenson was written mainly to dispel decades of rumors that swirled around the couple’s two African lions, who lived in Apple Valley in the early ‘60s. One […]
Boston Police are turning to the public for help in identifying a suspect in connection to an aggravated assault in Roxbury. Police detectives say the assault occurred on December 26 in the area of Blue Hill Ave. and Seaveer Street. The assault suspect may frequent the Mattapan area, according to officials. The incident remains under […]
STORY: Hamas aired a new video showing what it said were the bodies of two Israeli hostages on Monday, a day after warning Israel they might be killed if it did not stop its bombardment of Gaza. In the video released on Monday, 26-year-old university student Noa Argamani is seemingly reading a script in front […]
Jan. 15—BRAINERD, Minn. — The National Weather Service in Duluth on Monday, Jan. 15, extended its wind chill advisory through noon Tuesday for almost all of Minnesota, with wind gusts up to 20 mph and wind chills as low as 35 degrees below zero possible. In Brainerd, the low temperature Tuesday morning is expected to […]
During his too-short lifetime, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for racial equity and justice, cementing himself as one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and ’60s. On Monday, the national holiday honoring King, his legacy was celebrated in Modesto with the second annual MLK Unity March. A […]
A major ice storm capable of bringing widespread power outages and crippling travel appears increasingly likely for the Willamette Valley on Tuesday. The National Weather Service is forecasting anywhere from a quarter to three-quarters of an inch of ice for a widespread area from roughly Corvallis and Salem up to the Portland metro area. The […]
Jan. 15—PIERRE — The winter of 2022-23 was tough on South Dakota travelers, with several multi-day storms bringing snow, gusty winds and icy conditions that made getting from one place to another extremely difficult, if not impossible in some cases. It was also tough on the South Dakota Department of Transportation, its employees and its […]