Loved ones are remembering a young Southern California father who died from fentanyl as the suspect who sold him the drugs was sentenced to prison. On November 11, 2022, Ian Pangburn, 26, purchased fentanyl from Javier Carlos Cruz, 22, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Pangurn ingested the fentanyl and died the next day. A […]
Military camps used by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, whose exploits of laying siege to Lachish and Jerusalem are detailed in the Hebrew Bible, have finally been identified, a scholar says. At the time of the sieges, which both occurred around 701 B.C., the Assyrians controlled a rapidly growing empire that stretched from the Persian Gulf […]
The US government, in a report published on Tuesday, acknowledged for the first time the harms that federal dams have inflicted on Native American tribes in the US Pacific north-west. The report by the interior department details the “historic, ongoing and cumulative impacts of federal Columbia River dams on Columbia River Basin Tribes”, including how […]
SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest have caused Native American tribes. It issued a report that details how the unprecedented structures devastated salmon runs, inundated villages and burial grounds, […]
The family of a motorcyclist remains devastated after he was killed by a drunk driver who was speeding at over 100 miles per hour in Orange County. The victim was identified as Alexander Marce, 28, an Anaheim resident. On June 12, Alexander was stopped at a red light on Orangethorpe Avenue in Fullerton when a […]
It’s a sad day for many people around the world. News has spread that Nakoda, the rare white grizzly bear who’s gained fame online, was killed by a motorist in British Columbia, Canada. The death is shocking, but some experts say it might have been the result of the bear getting too comfortable with humans. […]
The wife of TV doctor and columnist Michael Mosley said it is “devastating” to have lost her “wonderful, funny, kind and brilliant husband” as she confirmed he has been found dead on the Greek island of Symi after going missing on Wednesday. His body was discovered in a rocky area beside Agia Marina on Symi […]
New Jersey senior left ‘devastated’ after Atlantic City casino denies her $2.5 million jackpot Rony Beal thought her prayers had been answered when she hit the jackpot on a Wheel of Fortune slot machine in Bally’s Atlantic City Hotel & Casino. “I was hoping for $1,000, saying, ‘Please God, let me win,’” the 72-year-old told […]
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Evan Neihaus had no idea what he was about to see when he arrived at Capital City Country Club. It had taken Neihaus – the club’s general manager – three hours to drive 18 miles from his Crawfordville home to Tallahassee following the fierce storms that roared through the area early Friday […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Winnie Makinda, 35, says she is facing the worst crisis and lowest moment of her life because of the Kenyan government’s response to floods that devastated her poor community in the capital of Nairobi. The floods and mudslides swept away people and inundated homes, killing at least 267 people and impacting […]
BLAST, BLAZE KILL 17 AT ROSEBURG,” read the headline on the front page of The Register-Guard on August 7, 1959. The official number of dead was later lowered to 14 as medical examiners were able to enter the area in the days after the blast. More than 120 others were injured. An eight-block area on the […]
“Blast Devastates Heart of Roseburg” read the banner headline in The Oregon Statesman on Aug. 8, 1959, with more than half of its front page coverage dedicated to a deadly explosion more than 130 miles south of Salem. The newspaper published Associated Press stories reporting how a truck with 6 1/2 tons of explosives aboard […]