A hulking manufacturing plant in Irmo is being accused of contaminating the lower Saluda River and drinking water supplies after dumping toxic forever chemicals into the scenic waterway and its floodplain for years. Environmentalists sued the Shaw Industries company Tuesday, arguing that forever chemical pollution is still occurring and should be stopped by a federal […]
A family of polar and grizzly bear hybrids, or grolars, in Canada’s western Arctic — which all started with a “pretty strange” female polar bear — is “quite rare,” according to a new study. The research paper, published last week in the journal Conservation Genetics Resources, used a new tool to look at samples from […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The horse transformed human history – and now scientists have a clearer idea of when humans began to transform the horse. Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia, suggesting that’s when humans started to spread domesticated horses around the world, according to research published Thursday […]
Zombie Army In what stands to be a major cybersecurity win for US law enforcement, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of Yunhe Wan — a 35-year-old Chinese national accused of perpetrating what the FBI says is likely the biggest botnet scheme in history. According to a DOJ press release, officials allege that Wan […]
A video posted on social media by Donald Trump referencing a “unified reich” has been traced to a template made by a Turkish designer more than a year ago, according to a report from CNN. Critics, including Joe Biden, condemned Trump over a video posted to his Truth Social account on Monday featuring a hypothetical […]
The teenager traced his stolen iPhone to a Denver neighborhood where he believed the device pinged and, in an act of revenge, set fire to the house where he thought his phone was located. He hit the wrong home. In what police have called a coordinated arson attack, the 2020 fire killed five Senegalese family […]
ROCHESTER, Mich. (FOX 2) – Video of a scary scene in downtown Rochester began with the arrival of a police cruiser, which showed a deputy getting out and heading to the trunk. His demeanor is calm. So are the bystanders standing around 423 Main Street on Saturday night. But as he retrieves a fire extinguisher […]
Jogging through a Louisiana neighborhood nearly got a teenager killed when he crossed paths with a man target shooting from atop a levee, according to investigators. It happened Saturday, April 20, in Luling, about a 25-mile drive west from New Orleans. “A 50-year-old male was target shooting on the levee when a 17-year-old male that […]
There were few things Beth Sternlieb’s Los Angeles doctors could say with certainty about her baffling illness, but this much was clear: Although manageable for years, it had worsened dramatically. For nearly two decades Sternlieb had been plagued by flu-like episodes that began with a headache and abdominal pain accompanied by fatigue, muscle aches and […]
There were few things Beth Sternlieb’s Los Angeles doctors could say with certainty about her baffling illness, but this much was clear: Although manageable for years, it had worsened dramatically. For nearly two decades Sternlieb had been plagued by flu-like episodes that began with a headache and abdominal pain accompanied by fatigue, muscle aches and […]
PFAS, the “forever chemicals” that have been raising health concerns across the country, are not just a problem in drinking water. As these chemicals leach out of failing septic systems and landfills and wash off airport runways and farm fields, they can end up in streams that ultimately discharge into ocean ecosystems where fish, dolphins, […]
ST. LOUIS – A report from USA TODAY identifies more than 1,300 outlets nationwide that sold at least 25 guns traced to crimes in a single year, including more than 20 St. Louis-area gun shops. USA Today’s Nick Penzenstalder revealed these findings in February. The report cited data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms […]