One of the victims of a brutal sexual assault along the Venice canals was taken off life support Friday night after being in a coma for nearly two months. Sarah Alden, 53, was declared brain dead earlier this week. She had planned to move across the country from Massachusetts to Venice Beach in California, a […]
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Victim in ‘heinous’ Venice Canal sexual assault declared brain dead
One of the victims in two brutal sexual assaults along the Venice Canals on the same night last month has been declared brain dead, leaving many to wonder if the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office will now include a charge of murder against the 29-year-old suspect. The vicious attacks occurred separately on April 6 while […]
Virginia driver facing five charges after encounter with Canal Fulton police
A 35-year-old man from Hampton, Virginia, is charged with assaulting two Canal Fulton police officers, accused of fleeing from a traffic stop early Sunday. Complaints filed in Massillon Municipal Court allege the suspect tried to hurt one officer by accelerating his vehicle while the officer was standing in the vehicle’s door frame. He tried to […]
Man stabbed in back on Canal Street
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a stabbing on Canal Street late Friday, May 17. The crime happened in the 2000 block of Canal Street around 11:30 p.m. 2-year-old hospitalized after being shot in New Orleans NOPD officers say a man tried to break up a fight at an unknown […]
Chemung Canal Trust Company backed up New York City banks, grew into Elmira institution
Reviving old canal to help water supply raises ecological concerns
May 11—Amid the flocks of sandhill cranes blanketing the mountainous backdrop in a white spectacle, it’s easy to miss the old canal flowing past the Bosque del Apache’s ponds and savannas. The canal is half-cloaked by cattails, willows, cottonwoods and other riparian flora that have taken root near its banks, allowing this human-made channel to […]
Exclusive-Panama’s president-elect vows to help fix canal water problems, build major train line
By Valentine Hilaire and Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Panama’s president-elect, Jose Raul Mulino, said on Wednesday he will urge lawmakers to approve a law enabling the Panama Canal to build large water reservoirs in the face of an unprecedented drought that has hit the capacity of the vital waterway. In an interview at […]
Cambodia says it will cut shipping through Vietnam by 70% with new China-funded Mekong canal
By Chantha Lach and Francesco Guarascio PHNOM PENH/HANOI (Reuters) – Cambodia plans to cut shipping through Vietnamese ports by 70% as a result of a $1.7 billion China-funded upgrade of a canal connecting the Mekong River basin to the Cambodian coast, the country’s deputy prime minister told Reuters. Sun Chanthol downplayed environmental concerns about the […]
Mom Accused of Throwing 6-Year-Old Son with Disabilities into Canal to Be Eaten by Crocodiles
The child’s body was recovered the next day Police in India have arrested a couple after recovering the partially-eaten body of their 6-year-old son whose mother is accused of throwing him into a canal known for having crocodiles, according to multiple reports. Savitri Kumar and her husband Ravi Kumar were arrested on murder charges in […]
Mother arrested for throwing disabled son into crocodile-infested canal in India
A woman has been arrested in southern India for allegedly throwing her disabled six-year-old son into a canal infested with crocodiles after an argument with her husband, police said. The dismembered body of the boy, who had hearing and speech impairments, was recovered from the canal in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka state on […]
Study says El Nino, not climate change, was key driver of low rainfall that snarled Panama Canal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The climate phenomenon known as El Nino — and not climate change — was a key driver in low rainfall that disrupted shipping at the Panama Canal last year, scientists said Wednesday. A team of international scientists found that El Nino — a natural warming of the central Pacific that changes weather […]