Feb. 21—The city of Santa Fe announced Wednesday it has taken a key step in determining the future of a popular wetlands area on the city’s east side. Water resource and environment consultant firm John Shomaker and Associates Inc. has been hired to conduct monitoring at Two Mile Pond, and the first of three monitoring […]
Drivers on Frederick’s Golden Mile will need to keep an eye on their speedometers, after the Maryland State Highway Administration lowered the speed limit in the area this past week. The change from 45 mph to 35 mph comes after a recent traffic engineering study that showed a lower speed limit will better align with […]
An Indiana woman says she wants answers after her 4-year-old son left his preschool and walked home all by himself. Taylor Meharg took to social media regarding the Jan. 10 incident at the Roanoke Seminary United Methodist Church. “At 10:20 am, Parker came running into the house. He had walked out of the school because […]
MILWAUKEE – After a Milwaukee woman’s 16-year-old dog disappeared from her backyard, she feared the worst. But fortunately, the shih tzu named Bear was located in the last place she expected. Jenny Hazard’s dog Bear has always loved adventure. “When he was younger, he was a runner,” Hazard said. Hazard thought that was a thing […]
LAS VEGAS — The distances that military snipers shoot with new combinations of rifles and calibers require optics that see farther and with more clarity. A new add-on device, the ThermoSight HISS-HD, a long-range cooled thermal sniper and machine gun sight by Teledyne FLIR, offers high-resolution views at 2,200 meters, or more than 7,000 feet, […]
A person in Florida opened their door to see their friend standing in front of their home with a gunshot wound to his head, police said. Christopher Hastings, 33, and a 44-year-old man started arguing at a mutual friend’s house in the 100 block of homes on Harter Drive in the early hours of Jan. […]
A Spirit passenger on a Florida-bound flight was met by law enforcement after he was accused of grabbing members of the flight crew and asking if they wanted to “join the mile high club,” federal officials said. About an hour into Spirit Airlines Flight 693, flying from Louisville, Kentucky to Orlando, Florida, on Jan. 9, […]
Detroit ushered in its first Black mayor in January 1974 with a boisterous inauguration that stretched over three days. Today, the celebration is largely remembered for four much-debated words in Coleman Young’s first mayoral speech that he delivered 50 years ago Tuesday. “Hit 8 Mile Road!” Young said, addressing criminals in Detroit. The mayor, who […]
About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby tundra basked in the Sun’s rays on the island’s northwest highlands. Evidence suggests that a forest of spruce trees, buzzing with insects, covered the southern part of Greenland. Global sea level was much higher then, between 20 and 40 feet above today’s levels. Around […]