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Rescue teams were scouring a Texas suburb Sunday looking for a teenager who may have drowned in powerful flood waters after heavy rain pummeled the San Antonio area the day before.Police in Schertz, a city northeast of San Antonio, said an unidentified 17-year-old may have been tugged downstream by a massive flood surge Saturday.Two people have already been confirmed dead, according to authorities...
CHICAGO -- On days when she can’t get a ride, Rocio Herrera catches the 6:10 a.m. bus from her poor, largely Hispanic neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest side for the long trip to Phoenix Military Academy – one of the city’s six public military-themed high schools.The military schools are part of the Department of Defense’s Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program, or JROTC. At most schools, ...
On the day America remembers lost heroes, the memories of many of those who survived combat remain forever laced with the harrowing sights, sounds and smells of war — recollections still crisp and vivid many decades after the fight.For some, like Vietnam veteran John Hamilton, sensory triggers from past skirmishes can never be shaken, no matter how much he’d like to forget. When night falls, he se...
The Union Sportsmen's Alliance (USA) Adopt-a-Park initiative is making sure hikers in Montgomery Bell State Park near Nashville, Tenn., have a safe new bridge to cross a 30-foot-wide creek. Volunteers from the Nashville Building and Construction Trades Council (BCTC) are spending weekends in May building a sturdy, permanent bridge to replace a small, temporary structure further down the creek after a 2010 flood washed away the original bridge.
A fire broke out early Monday aboard a cruise ship off the Florida coast, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed.The fire was contained to a small area of the Royal Caribbean Grandeur of the Seas and had been put out early Monday morning, the agency said.Responders were using equipment onboard the ship to put out the fire as opposed to battling it from a cutter, the agency said.Royal Caribbean Cruises sai...
