Everyone in town quickly learned about the meeting, but no one seemed to get an invitation. In a feels-smaller-than-it-is community like Whitewater, Wisconsin, population 15,000, home of a Division III university and not much else, word travels fast. First, whispers of a U.S. representative in town. A U.S. senator, too. They held a closed-door “press […]
A cold front, carrying heavy smoke from wildfires in the Texas Panhandle, is saturating the region Tuesday night with a potent smoke smell as it pushing into Lubbock and the South Plains. The smoke smell appeared in Lubbock County around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday with local 911 call centers reporting dozens of calls regarding the odor. […]
The Vallejo Police Department’s social media pages have been bombarded with negative comments from all over the country after the release earlier this month of a Netflix documentary that outlined a bungled kidnapping case. The documentary “American Nightmare” came out on Jan. 17 and examines the so-called “Gone Girl” case about a couple on Mare […]
In the lobby of the Inland Valley Humane Society & SPCA shelter in Pomona, Nikole Bresciani gestured toward rows of kennels erected a few months ago to house an influx of stray cats. In another area, pop-up crates for dogs were stacked on wheels. To Bresciani, the president and chief executive of the shelter, it […]