Thousands of ultranationalist Israelis marched through a sensitive Palestinian area of Jerusalem on Wednesday in an annual procession, chanting racist slogans. The country’s national security minister boasted that Jews had prayed freely at a key holy site in the city in violation of decades-old understandings. The comments by Itamar Ben-Gvir and the march in Jerusalem, the emotional […]
Jun. 1—(The Center Square) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sent eight Minnesota All Hazards Incident Management Team members to the site of the Greenfield, Iowa tornado. For 14 days, the team will help local first responders with volunteer management, debris cleanup and legal litigation. The MN-AHIMT are coming to the call of the Emergency Management […]
May 31—A Bedford woman was arrested after she drove into a work zone Wednesday, nearly hitting a utility worker and police officer in Merrimack, police said. At 9:24 p.m. Wednesday, Merrimack police were stationed at a road construction detail in the area of Rt. 101A and Continental Blvd. Officers had traffic stopped in both directions […]
A site has been chosen for a new control tower at Athens-Ben Epps Airport, with construction slated to start within the next 18 months to two years. Construction of the tower will be federally funded, as part of a $500 million Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) project to replace aging control towers at 31 of the […]
An ongoing environmental cleanup at the former Philips Lighting Company off State Road 54 in Bath is expected to be completed sometime this fall, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Philips North America is performing the cleanup activities with oversight by the DEC. The plant, which previously manufactured light bulbs, closed in early […]
The first Boeing Starliner astronauts are back at the launch site. NASA Crew Flight Test (CFT) astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday (May 28) ahead of their expected liftoff of Boeing Starliner on Saturday (June 1). NASA will hold a delta flight readiness review later […]
Construction of the Extremely Large Telescope has reached another milestone, with the completion of the dome’s steel skeleton. The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world’s largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is under development on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile’s Atacama Desert and is expected to see its […]
Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster, a United Nations official said. A mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees devastated the village of Yambali in the South Pacific nation’s remote highlands when a limestone mountainside sheared away on Friday. The blanket […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster because of water streams and bodies trapped beneath the tons of debris that swept over a village, a United Nations official said Tuesday. A mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees […]
York County this week responded to online rumors and clarified it hasn’t permitted Silfab Solar to build its manufacturing facility in Fort Mill. Interest remains high at the Silfab site, though it’s unclear what will happen at the controversial manufacturing property after the county Board of Zoning Appeals decided solar panel manufacturing shouldn’t be allowed […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia prepared on Monday to send aircraft and other equipment to help at the site of a deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea as overnight rains in the South Pacific nation’s mountainous interior raised fears that the tons of rubble that buried hundreds of villagers could become dangerously unstable. Australian Defense […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Clashes erupted on Sunday between police and Jewish pilgrims at a religious festival site in northern Israel where three years ago 45 people died in a crowd crush, and which authorities closed this year due to rocket fire from Lebanon. Since the 2021 tragedy at the tomb of a 2nd-century sage during […]