Firefighters continued to build containment around several destructive wildfires in California amid a somewhat promising forecast. But one stubborn blaze in the northern part of the state grew significantly and crossed the border into Oregon.
The World Cup has reached its most exciting period, with the best teams moving forward to the quarter finals. If there’s anything to be said about the major sporting event so far, it’s that the World Cup has been full of surprises, with celebrated frontrunners like Germany falling fast and hard in the group stage.
Drones are no longer just cameras in the sky. They’re autonomous, artificially intelligent flying machines with the ability to capture sharp resolution of an asset and use machine learning to process data through analytical models. But all of that potential is constantly challenged by regulation.
Fire ripped through a Carrollton plastics plant Thursday night. There were no apparent injuries in the fire, which happened at the Superior Recreational Products plant on Columbia Drive, but the 80,000 square-foot building appeared to be a total loss, according to Carrollton Fire Department Battalion Chief Allen English.
Indiana County Coroner Jerry Overman has identified a 52-year-old woman from Commodore who was killed Thursday afternoon when a car crashed into two gas pumps and an Indiana County service station, and the vehicle and building burst into flames.
Hurricane Beryl formed early Friday morning (July 6) in the Atlantic Ocean, forecasters said. It’s the first hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic season. Beryl’s "small" eye became apparent in infrared satellite pictures early Friday morning, the National Hurricane Center said.
A wildfire in northern California destroyed buildings and forced hundreds of people to evacuate from nearby communities, prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency.
Meteorologists with the National Weather Service say their preliminary investigation shows the damage in Paintsville was caused by a microburst that included straight line winds around 80 mph.
Gunshots fired through the glass doors of the Annapolis-based Capital Gazette newspaper last week resonated far and wide. The tragic shooting left five people dead, two more injured, and communities shaken to the core. No-one is immune to random acts of violence.
Doug Davis finally found his tractor that had been swooped up by a tornado from his ranch in northwest South Dakota. Sort of. “The tractor is mostly scattered in Montana,” he told the Capital Journal on Monday night.
