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 […]
More than 20 miles of Highway 240 across the Hanford nuclear site and part of Highway 24 were closed sometime after 6 p.m. Saturday by a wildfire. The Hanford site alerted its employees that Highway 240, sometimes called the Hanford highway, was closed from Highway 225 north of Benton City to the intersection with Highway […]
After about two decades, the small town of Honea Path has the money to clean up an abandoned textile mill property that was the site of one of South Carolina’s most deadly labor strikes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a $2,650,770 grant for the cleanup at what once was Chiquola Mill. The state added […]
After about two decades, the small town of Honea Path has the money to clean up an abandoned textile mill property that was the site of one of South Carolina’s most deadly labor strikes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a $2,650,770 grant for the cleanup at what once was Chiquola Mill. The state added […]
Alderney, a quiet British island in the English Channel known for its outstanding natural beauty, was once the site of the only Nazi camps on British soil – and a hell on Earth for its thousands of inmates. A fresh inquiry, ordered by the UK’s Special Envoy for Post Holocaust Issues, Eric Pickles, and led by a panel […]
Satellite imagery confirms a Russian strategic early warning radar site in the southwestern end of the country was substantially damaged in a reported Ukrainian drone attack earlier this week. This looks to be a first-of-its-kind attack on a site linked to Russia’s general strategic defense. As such, it points to a new and worrisome dimension […]
WESTBOROUGH — Beside Lake Chauncy stood Jon Maynard, who believes this is sacred ground. Maynard’s research had led him to this small stretch of shoreline that could include the remains of boys who once lived in the first public reform school in the country. After years of poring over historic documents and photographs, Maynard feels […]
Iran interred late president Ebrahim Raisi at the holiest Shiite shrine in the nation on Thursday, days after a fatal helicopter crash killed him along with the country’s foreign minister and six others. Mourners lowered Mr Raisi’s remains into a tomb at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, where Shiite Islam’s eighth imam is buried […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – The General Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces on Wednesday downplayed the role played by a Turkish drone in finding the crash site of President Ebrahim Raisi‘s helicopter, highlighting instead the performance of its own drones. Early on Monday, Turkey’s Anadolu Agency reported that a Turkish Akinci drone had identified “a source of […]
May 20—A dump truck operator working in a construction zone on Interstate 93 was arrested Sunday for allegedly driving while impaired, state police said. Around 11 p.m. Sunday, State Police were asked to check the welfare of a commercial driver working at a construction site on I-93 in Hooksett. Troopers received information the driver was […]