The California radiologist accused of intentionally driving his car off a 330-foot cliff with his family inside will not stand trial. Dharmesh Patel, 42, was granted a mental health diversion by a court Thursday due to evidence that he has major depressive disorder, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office. Patel pleaded not guilty to three […]
Child care crisis I am very concerned about the lack of child care funding that is looming. If the N.C. General Assembly doesn’t fund early childhood education by June 30, nearly one-third of childcare providers statewide — an estimated 1,500 facilities — may have to shut down, leaving 91,660 kids without care and families without […]
A hiker who ventured off a trail above Sunset Beach Elementary was rescued by Honolulu firefighters as he clung to a tree on a cliff. According to a Honolulu Fire Department summary, rescuers responded to a 7 :23 a.m. 911 call reporting a hiker in distress near the Ehukai Pillbox Trail. HFD sent four units […]
Jun. 18—One of two capital murder defendants accused of kidnapping a Hartselle woman in 2021 and pushing her off a cliff to her death has applied for youthful offender status, according to court filings. Jessie Eden Kelly, 22, along with her mother, Loretta Kay Carr, 45, are both charged with killing Mary Elizabeth Isbell. Isbell […]
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Authorities received a call this morning from a driver trapped in their car after rolling off a 150-foot cliff off Highway 92 near mile marker 33. Colorado State Patrol, Plateau Valley Fire, and Mesa County Search and Rescue responded and were able to retrieve the driver and dog from the […]
An Atlanta man drowned earlier this month when he jumped off of a cliff and into the ocean for fun. Hans Materne, 45, was found unresponsive in the water in Santa Cruz, California on June 5, according to KSBW-TV. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] His wife wrote in an online […]
Advocates have been talking about the child care funding cliff coming up at the end of June in North Carolina for months. And now it’s almost here. Yet action has not been taken by lawmakers to address it, advocates said Wednesday morning as they gathered at Raleigh’s Freedom Park, less than a five-minute walk away […]
Advocates have been talking about the child care funding cliff coming up at the end of June in North Carolina for months. And now it’s almost here. Yet action has not been taken by lawmakers to address it, advocates said Wednesday morning as they gathered at Raleigh’s Freedom Park, less than a five-minute walk away […]
A man has died after falling from a 1,981 foot (604-meter-high) cliff in Norway that featured in a “Mission Impossible” film. Preikestolen, known in English as “Pulpit Rock” is a cliff in southwestern Norway overlooking the Lysefjord. It is one of Norway’s most famous mountain hikes and sees more than 300,000 visitors a year, according to […]
As more frequent and intense storms have battered Newport’s famous Cliff Walk, causing chunks to plunge into the waters below and sinkholes to appear without warning, millions of public dollars have gone into the trail, and almost as quickly, nature has wiped the repairs away. It’s an issue that’s existed for nearly a century, but […]
A recent change in state law has led to a drastic drop in the number of Miami-Dade voters requesting mail-in ballots, leading county officials and political organizations to scramble to try and make up the difference. As of Tuesday, roughly 194,000 voters in Miami-Dade County had requested vote-by-mail ballots, Supervisor of Elections Christina White told […]
Firefighters rescued a dog that fell off a cliff edge in San Francisco after being chased by raccoons on Sunday, May 26, local authorities said. Footage released by San Francisco Fire Department shows crews in harnesses scaling the steep terrain at Turner Terrace and using ropes to lift the dog to safety on Sunday evening. […]