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A fast-moving brush fire forced the shutdown of Interstate 95 and the evacuation of 300 homes in Ormond Beach in central Florida on Saturday, fire officials said.
Marco McMillian, a black and gay man, announced in January that he would run for mayor of his hometown of Clarksdale, Miss. Six weeks later, he was dead on a Mississippi River levee.
With sweeping vistas of the sea, tourists flock to Cabrillo, Calif., and other coastal parks to see these gentle giants at a time when, on average, attendance is down and state and national parks are struggling.
These beastly feasts exist somewhere between the hard edge of gunpoint diplomacy and the soft belly of “Man v. Food.”
There was still no sign Saturday of a 37-year-old Florida man swallowed by a sinkhole that appeared under his bedroom, an official said, as engineers resumed testing.
Berry Craig, recording secretary for the Paducah-based Western Kentucky AFL-CIO Area Council and a professor of history at West Kentucky Community and Technical College, is a former daily newspaper and Associated Press columnist and currently a member of AFT Local 1360. Craig sends us this.Retired Kentucky United Steelworkers (USW) member Jim Pence is doing his bit to help retire Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). “Social media is the way to go,” said Pence, who lives in Glendale, Ky., and belonged to USW Local 423 in Louisville. Pence has opened a pair of Facebook pages: Ditch Mitch and 1,000,000 Strong Against Senator Mitch McConnell in 2014.
Engineers were expected to carry out more tests Saturday on the ground around a sinkhole that appeared under a home in Florida, swallowing up a 37-year-old man from his bedroom.
A door-to-door salesman selling home fire alarms noticed smoke coming from a Texas home, heard a woman screaming and broke a window to rescue her.
A California beauty queen has claimed she was a potential victim of a man charged with raping a woman he met on a Christian dating website.
The armed forces mourned a grim toll in 2012 when more troops took their own lives than died in combat, but a precarious question remains: Why is the rate spiking?
