Nashville police have released preliminary findings in the autopsy of Riley Strain, and say his death appears accidental. The body of the missing 22-year-old University of Missouri student was found in the Cumberland River in West Nashville Friday morning, about eight miles from downtown, Metro Nashville Police said in a post shortly after 9:30 a.m. […]
Two livestock marts have received financial penalties after a regulatory body concluded they separately engaged in improper conduct. The High Court president confirmed decisions to require Corcaghan Co-operative Agricultural & Dairy Society, trading as Ballybay Livestock Sales, in Co Monaghan, to pay €13,000 and Mountbellew Regional Co-operative Livestock Mart Society in Co Galway to pay […]
EAST LANSING — Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees will meet Sunday night to discuss an investigation that recommended trustees refer Chair Rema Vassar and Trustee Dennis Denno to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for possible removal for misconduct. MSU late Saturday announced the special meeting, which is scheduled for 10 p.m. over Zoom on the night […]
LINCOLN COUNTY, Mo — 38-year-old Jeffery W. Holden is now wanted. Call the police if you see him. The Lincoln County Prosecutor says he’s violated probation for a 2017 crash that took the life of 18-year-old Nicholas Spencer. Nick’s mother, Carrie Knight, has been relentless in protecting others. She said, “…saving somebody else from the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans urged the state Supreme Court on Thursday to ignore a report from redistricting consultants that determined GOP-proposed legislative maps were unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. While Republicans argue that the consultants’ findings are unsound, Democrats asked the court on Thursday to adopt one of their maps that the consultants found were […]
WASHINGTON — A long-awaited report by special counsel Robert Hur will be made public in the coming days after a yearlong investigation into how classified documents found their way to President Joe Biden’s home and office, according to a senior law enforcement official familiar with the matter. The imminent release of a public report confirms […]
Russian president Vladimir Putin pledged on Friday to make public the findings of Moscow’s investigation into the crash of a transport plane on Wednesday. He alleged that Kyiv’s forces shot down the aircraft despite having been informed that Ukrainian prisoners of war were on board. In his first public remarks on Wednesday’s crash, Mr Putin […]
A Chinese researcher submitted a virus sequence of COVID-19 to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) database in December 2019, two weeks before Beijing released the virus’s genome sequence, according to federal documents obtained by a House committee. The House Energy and Commerce Committee obtained documents from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) […]
Pollution from coal power plants killed at least 460,000 people over 20-plus years, according to a new study. What happened? Researchers tracked air pollution from 480 U.S. coal power plants that operated at some point between 1999 and 2020, The Guardian reported. The group used a model to track wind direction and the reach of […]
It isn’t yet clear when humans will finally begin spending multiple years (perhaps even decades) in space while constructing space stations, Mars habitats, offworld rovers, and probably a slew of other stunning things I can barely fathom from my cozy Earth couch. What is clear, however, is that our current trajectory suggests such a time […]
On Christmas morning two years ago, astronomers and space fans received the gift they’d been waiting on for 30 years: the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the world’s biggest, most daring endeavor to probe the earliest stars and galaxies in the universe. This year, the space observatory has continued to deliver breathtaking […]
Eli Lilly (LLY) stock has seesawed in December after updated test results show patients who stop taking weight-loss drug, Zepbound, regain some lost weight after a year. X After eight months, patients taking Zepbound lost an average of 20.9% of their weight. But when a group of patients switched to a placebo, they regained 14% […]