In a span of just six and half hours, two Los Angeles Metro buses were the focus of dangerous and scary situations Monday. The first incident happened at around 3:15 a.m. when a Metro bus full of passengers near West Olympic and Flower Street downtown was overrun by people gathered for a street takeover involving […]
Tens of thousands of people use the Interstate 5 Bridge every day. (Courtesy of Interstate Bridge Replacement Program) When construction starts on a new Interstate 5 bridge across the Columbia River in early 2026, drivers will begin paying tolls on the existing span between Washington and Oregon. That’s the plan. Rep. Ed Orcutt, R-Kalama wanted […]
Crews have conducted a controlled demolition to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. It marked a major step in freeing the grounded Dali container ship, which has been stuck amid the wreckage since it lost power and crashed into one of the bridge’s support columns shortly […]
SpaceX had a busy Saturday evening (March 30), launching two rockets from Florida less than five hours apart. The action started at 5:52 p.m. EDT (2152 GMT) on Saturday, when a Falcon 9 rocket sent the Eutelsat 36D telecommunications satellite skyward from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Then, at 9:30 p.m. EDT (0130 GMT on […]
A 19-year-old is behind bars after he was accused of having a gun on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. PREVIOUS: 2 charged with having guns at UNC Charlotte University police arrested Brian Wise on Saturday after they say he had a pistol. Channel 9 is asking if Wise is a […]
Mar. 24—TRAVERSE CITY — A new bridge across the Boardman River is now on the horizon, but it has nothing to do with cars and trucks. Instead of the proposed $300 million Hartman-Hammond vehicle bridge that ignited intense public debate, county officials this week approved plans for a $1 million pedestrian bridge across the river, […]
Local and national school leaders are concerned about a persistent teacher shortage spurred by mid-career resignations and an ever-dwindling pool of teaching candidates. Experts on a quest to mend the problem often scapegoat low pay, among other challenges for educators. USA TODAY: American classrooms need more educators. Can virtual teachers step in to bridge the […]
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Half of the city’s homicides so far in 2024 happened in a 30-hour span over Presidents’ Day weekend, a typically long weekend for many people. The San Diego Police Department responded to the crimes in a statement Monday afternoon: Body found in vehicle fire at South Bay sports complex “The […]
The more you pay in rent, the more likely you are to have bad health and die earlier, a recent study found. That’s what experts found after studying people who spend a large portion of their income on rent. Moreover, if you’re not able to pay your rent and are evicted or threatened with eviction, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a single week, the Republican chairs of three House committees announced they would not be seeking reelection, raising questions about whether the chaos that has reigned this Congress is driving out some of the GOP’s top talent. What makes the retirements particularly noteworthy is that none of the chairs were at […]
Late last month, China launched two clusters of small satellites to provide commercial meteorological data. Two separate Kuaizhou 1A solid rockets lifted off from transport erector launchers at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 8:00 p.m. EST on Dec. 24 (0100 GMT and 9:00 a.m. Beijing time on Dec. 25) and […]