Jun. 23—OLD LYME — Linda Turner, having walked Sunday to a small building next to a garden at the Florence Griswold Museum, reappeared with two signed brochures in her hand, and “tussie mussies,” small bouquets of flowers fastened with ribbons. Presenting them to Kyle Higgins, of Beacon Falls, and Joan Greenwood, of Bridgeport, Turner explained […]
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A statewide AMBER Alert has been issued for an abducted child in El Paso. The El Paso Police Department is looking for a missing 6-month-old child identified as Thomas Gallardo Jr. The child was last seen shortly before midnight on Saturday, June 22 along the 700 block of Karl Drive, […]
Jun. 22—WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) this week invited the public to comment on the draft 2025 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). The program consists of projects around the state that support the Shapiro Administration’s vision of a safe and reliable transportation network that connects Pennsylvanians to opportunities and services. The comment […]
The 911 emergency system was down statewide for two hours in Massachusetts on Tuesday afternoon. State officials notified the public that the issue had been resolved and that the 911 system had been restored at 3:49 p.m. — nearly two hours after the outage began. The Massachusetts State 911 department said Wednesday the outage was […]
The Boys and Girls Clubs in the South Bend, Indiana area had to turn away 800 students from its summer learning program last year — even though many of the children who didn’t get a spot were academically two years behind after the pandemic. That bothered Jacqueline Kronk, CEO of the clubs in St. Joseph […]
Polls have now closed in South Carolina’s statewide primaries, with polling places across the Palmetto State closing at 7 p.m., barring any latecomers who may have still been in line with clocks struck 7. There are no statewide offices on the ballot in 2024, such as a governor’s race or U.S. Senate contest, and South […]
Jun. 6—COLLEGE STATION — With funding provided by the 88th Texas Legislature, the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) has expanded its outreach efforts throughout Texas to offer training and assistance in three critical disciplines essential to Texas communities: Fire and Emergency Services; Law Enforcement and Protective Services; and Critical Infrastructure/Water and Wastewater Management and […]
UPDATE @ 10:30 p.m. James Dearwester, the 93-year-old Bellefontaine resident for whom a statewide Missing Adult Alert had been issued, has been located, Bellefontaine police report. INITIAL REPORT A 93-year-old Bellefontaine man has been added to a statewide Missing Adult Alert, the city police department announced Wednesday night. >> Family of crash victim files wrongful […]
Jun. 3—The Arc Otsego, a local chapter of the largest non-profit organization that serves people with disabilities in New York, is participating in The Week of Service, a celebration of the organization’s 75th anniversary. During the week of June 1, local chapters statewide plan to complete 75 service projects. The Otsego Arc is slated to […]
Jun. 3—Volunteers are needed to help pull frogbit Sunday as one of the state’s Invasive Species Awareness Week events. The state Environmental Conservation and Agriculture and Markets departments coordinate the invasive species week, hosting free public events and invasive species challenges from June 3 to June 9 across the state and online, including daily webinars […]
An emergency service provider in West Des Moines said the statewide telecommunications outage Thursday that impacted internet and landline phones services was unavoidable — and they might not be able to prevent it from happening again. “This was upstream, above all of us,” said Udell F. Mentola, spokesperson for the Westcom Dispatch Center, which dispatches police, […]
Say goodbye to Styrofoam cups, take out containers and coolers. The expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam ban, including Styrofoam products, went into effect in the state of Washington on Saturday. As the Washington Department of Ecology illustrates on its website, EPS foam items are not allowed to be sold in any stores or given out by restaurants. That means […]