Feed items
All options are on the table, including canceling the America's Cup this summer, as investigators review the death of an Olympic gold medalist and the safety of new space-age yachts that are pushing the limits of technology, U.S. yachting administrators said Friday.Andrew "Bart" Simpson, 36, the chief strategist for the Artemis Racing team, died Thursday when the yacht he and 10 colleagues were on...
Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults in December, should be torn down and replaced with an entirely new school, the task force charged with determining its future decided Friday night.The 28 members of the Sandy Hook Elementary Building Task Force, voting unanimously, rejected alternatives under which the current school would have been be...
A task force charged with figuring out what to do with Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults in December, on Friday night ruled out renovating the school.The 28 members of the Sandy Hook Elementary Building Task Force had three options: renovate the current structure; tear it down and build a new school on the current site; or build a new ...
A Heritage Foundation scholar has resigned after a firestorm erupted over his 2009 dissertation alleging Hispanics do not have “IQ parity with whites” and that Hispanic immigrants to the United States will have “low-IQ children and grandchildren.” "Jason Richwine let us know he's decided to resign from his position," the conservative think tank said in a statement. "He's no longer employed by Heri...
A Port Angeles man damaged four houses after he drove his bulldozer through them. At least one vehicle was also destroyed. The Clallam County Sheriff's Office said the man was "irate with neighbors." The man was booked into jail for malicious mischief. A major power outage was caused after Bonneville Power Administration lines were tripped. Power has been restored to al...
