An Indiana man who crashed his truck and had been trapped inside it for nearly a week was found alive on Tuesday by two fishermen who happened to spot the wrecked vehicle. The fisherman – Nivardo Delatorre and his father-in-law Mario Garcia – noticed the crashed truck under an overpass …
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How would you like to drive a car that runs on sunlight? Sounds cool, right? Well, that’s what the Solar City micro EV from Squad Mobility can do for you. It’s a small, cheap, and green car that can zip through the city streets without using any gas. And the …
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A grand jury in Texas has decided not to charge a man who shot and killed a robber inside a Houston taqueria last year. A grand jury decided on Wednesday that it will not charge a man who shot and killed 30-year-old Eric Eugene Washington, according to a press release …
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A federal court in New York ordered lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell to search her emails for dozens of lewd terms and high-profile names in the lawsuit brought by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, court records show. Amid some back-and-forth between lawyers for both sides, Giuffre’s team zeroed in on key …
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PORTLAND, Ore. – For more than a decade, the federal government spent $700 million on habitat improvements in the Columbia River Basin. Experts say it’s likely the largest, most intensive, and most expensive habitat restoration program in the nation. It’s the centerpiece in a federal management plan to relieve the …
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BEIJING – China says racial discrimination and police abuses are rife in the United States, in a report intended as a counterpoint to U.S. criticisms of China’s own human rights record. The report issued Friday by the Cabinet-level State Council Information Office cited the incident in Ferguson, Missouri, and other …
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COLUMBIA, S.C. – A Florida teenager died after falling from a high ropes course at a camp on the South Carolina-North Carolina border, officials said Tuesday. Olivia Paige Grimes, 16, of Lakeland, Florida, died about 6 p.m. Monday after falling out of a zip line swing at Carolina Point Camp …
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HONOLULU – The military plans to exhume more caskets containing the unidentified remains of USS Oklahoma crew members killed in the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency plan to dig up the remains Monday. They are …
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FRANKFORT, Ky. – Two northern Kentucky women have sued a county sheriff and one of his school resource officers for placing their two disabled elementary school children in handcuffs. The 8-year-old boy and the 9-year-old girl and their mothers are identified in the lawsuit only by their initials. The children …
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WASHINGTON – A hemp shop in the nation’s capital is reopening after three years now that possession of small amounts of marijuana is legal in the District of Columbia. The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/1N9QWzu) reports that The Capitol Hemp shop is having its grand reopening Wednesday. In 2012, Capitol Hemp agreed …
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