A high-speed pursuit ended in a violent crash, leaving four suspects dead and two innocent people injured in the Inland Empire Friday morning. The pursuit began shortly before 2 a.m. when a Rancho Cucamonga deputy attempted to pull over a DUI suspect, a spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department confirmed to KTLA. The […]
(Reuters) – Tropical Storm Alberto is moving inland over Mexico’s coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Thursday, with heavy rains and gusty winds subsiding for Texas but continuing in northeastern Mexico. The coastal flooding threat remains for Texas, and tropical storm conditions are expected in the Mexican region, according to the NHC. […]
A federal judge sentenced a man to more than 10 years in prison Friday, June 7 for setting fire to six big rigs in the High Desert and Inland Empire, authorities said. Viorel Pricop, 66, of Allen Park, Michigan, was convicted by a jury in March of six counts of arson of a vehicle involved […]
A dozen opponents spoke during an Omaha City Council public hearing on the appointment of Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert‘s slate of nominees for the first Omaha Inland Port Authority board. The nine members ultimately were approved by the City Council on a 5-1 vote, and they are to begin developing policies and procedures and take […]
Omaha Inland Port Authority boundaries shown in red. Orange is Eppley Airfield. (Courtesy of City of Omaha) OMAHA — The appointment of the first-ever Omaha Inland Port Authority board, poised to happen Tuesday, should trigger a start on multiple projects within a roughly 300-acre zone in northeast Omaha. Among initiatives that the new nine-member body […]
Now is the time to protect any sensitive flowers and garden vegetables as temperatures in inland counties of southern Wisconsin are expected to drop below freezing tonight. The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning from midnight until 8 a.m. Sunday. The temperature is expected to drop as low as 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Frost […]
The transport of freight along Germany’s large inland waterways network continued its long-term decline last year, when 172 million tons were shipped, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reported on Monday. The figure in 2022 was 10 million tons higher, largely as a result of increased shipping of coal used for generating electricity. Freight transport on […]
Bloomington seems like an improbable place to host a clash between past and future. But in this unincorporated town about 50 miles east of Los Angeles, a working-class, mostly Latino community is confronting exactly that: Will it be a slice of desert, a home of horses and nurseries, or will it become a logistics hub, […]
Jan. 10—People in the Inland Northwest are being urged to take extra precautions for themselves, their pets and their livestock as temperatures dive into the nether regions this weekend. Steve Bodnar, a forecaster with the National Weather Service at Spokane, said in an online weather briefing Wednesday morning that the risk of hypothermia and frostbite […]
Jan. 9—An Arctic front that is expected to sweep through the region this week is likely to bring the coldest temperatures seen yet this year, possibly rivaling the lows of last season, a National Weather Service meteorologist said Monday. “One of our big weather days will be Tuesday with the arrival of a shot of […]
Jan. 3—The state Department of Ecology determined that an oily substance found on the Spokane River in the Millwood area on Dec. 26 was a mineral oil spilled from equipment at the Inland Empire Paper Company. Inland Empire Paper Co. is owned by Cowles Co., which also publishes The Spokesman-Review. “IEP puts the highest priority […]
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