A woman reported missing after not contacting her employer after New Year’s Day has been found dead, California police reported. The body of YingYing “Dawn” Yu, 40, of Los Gatos was found Jan. 13 in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Los Gatos-Monte Sereno police said in a news release. Her husband, John Maxey Yeager, 56, is […]
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Travel Alert | Snow for Tri-Cities. Heavy snow in mountains, ice storm in Columbia Gorge
More snow is forecast for the Tri-Cities as the temperature warms some, although not back to normal for mid-January. Travel could be challenging for people heading out-of-town this week, whether across Washington state’s Cascade or Blue mountains or down the Columbia River Gorge. For the Tri-Cities the National Weather Service predicts a 90% chance of […]
Rock slide closes roads in the North Carolina mountains. What we know.
A rock slide has closed two roads in the North Carolina mountains, rangers in Pisgah National Forest said Friday Cold Springs and Brown Gap roads in Haywood County, where the rock slide occurred remained closed on Saturday. A rock slide has closed two roads in the North Carolina mountains, rangers in Pisgah National Forest said […]
Double-whammy weekend storms could dump several feet of snow on Utah mountains, Uthans urged to ‘avoid travel if possible’
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Several feet of snow in the mountains. Difficult travel conditions. Extreme avalanche dangers. All of those are expected for Utah this weekend as another two winter storms look to roar into the state, bringing wet, heavy snow and powerful winds. On Friday, the National Weather Service upgraded nearly all of […]
Winter storm warnings issued as Utah mountains could get up to 5 feet of snow this weekend
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — After back-to-back winter storms brought heavy snow and powerful winds to Utah this week, another set of storms is on track to swirl into the Beehive State this weekend, creating a messy Friday evening commute and possibly delivering 3 to 5 feet of fresh powder by Sunday to the northern […]
New Mexico National Guard aids in rescue of three hikers lost in Sandia Mountains
Jan. 8—A New Mexico National Guard air rescue team, with the help of New Mexico State Police and other agencies, rescued three people early Sunday after they lost their way in the Sandia Mountains. Five National Guard members rescued two men and a woman off the La Luz Trail in the Sandia Mountain Wilderness five […]
Woman survives 4 nights of freezing temperatures after crash in mountains near L.A.
A driver who survived four nights of cold and freezing temperatures in mountainous terrain near Los Angeles was rescued and hospitalized Sunday, a sheriff’s official said. The woman’s exact condition and injuries were unavailable, but Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. William Fillpot said she was stable. The woman told rescuers she went off the road […]
Check out highlights from Palo Pinto Mountains
STRAWN – Roughly an hour west of one of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas, a vast landscape of nearly 4,900 undeveloped acres stretches along the Western Cross Timbers. Its rolling hills, coupled with blooming prairies and picturesque waterways, support habitat for hundreds of Texas species ranging from towering oak trees and endemic flowers to wild […]
Chinese exchange student found ‘very cold and scared’ in a tent in Utah mountains in ‘cyber kidnapping’, police say
A Chinese foreign exchange student in Utah was found alone, “very cold and scared” in a tent in the mountains in frigid temperatures, after his parents abroad were extorted and threatened with his safety in a “cyber kidnapping,” officials say. The parents of Kai Zhang, 17, was sent a photograph that allegedly showed him abducted […]
Skull found in California mountains ID’d as that of woman who vanished in 1970
A skull found along a highway in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains decades ago has been identified as that of a woman who went missing in 1970, police said Wednesday. The DNA match solved the mystery of whether Donna Lass was alive or dead but not what happened to her, and officials continued to ask for […]
‘We have cartel scouts on our mountains’
A fifth-generation Arizona rancher said an influx of illegal migrants crossing his land in recent years has increased his fear that terrorists are successfully sneaking into America. “It’s really a serious issue,” Jim Chilton, owner of the Chilton Ranch, told Fox News. “We have no security on our ranch nor in most places along the […]