Our Uniquely Fort Worth stories celebrate what we love most about North Texas, its history & culture. Story suggestion? Editors@star-telegram.com. Who knows? The “wood for sale” want ads in the late 1930s might have been a code for “buy your heroin here,” or they may have just been a front for the $3 million (almost […]
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday toured flood-ravaged areas of South Florida — and defended his recent move to scrap the state’s climate change goals. DeSantis toured flooded areas of Hollywood, where he declared a state of emergency Wednesday after parts of the region received more than 20 inches of rain this week. […]
“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” To model how sand jams in an hourglass, physicists combine two gridlike math models. Flowing sand is vulnerable to jamming, including a jamming transition that could be disrupted. Granules and the subset of powders have their own entire area of […]
“I want him to be completely gone from my life,” Stephanie M. Russell told the purported hitman on a recorded call Oldham County Detention Center Stephanie M. Russell, dressed in her scrubs for a mugshot following her May 19, 2022 arrest. Stephanie M. Russell was running her own pediatric clinic in Louisville, Ky., when she […]
Eerie, fascinating and at times unnerving, whale songs are one of the most mysterious sounds to have been heard reverberating through the ocean. How baleen whales, which include humpback whales, are able to sing underwater has eluded scientists since whale songs were first discovered more than 50 years ago. While toothed whales, which include dolphins […]
An ill-fitting suit on a fast-talking lawyer made Laura Gayle suspect she was about to be scammed out of her late father’s home — a smart instinct that sparked a Queens District Attorney’s Office probe that ended with two con men convicted of stealing nine houses from right under their owners’ feet. Gayle and her […]