Jamie Roberts and her husband felt lucky when they found an A-frame cabin on forest-draped Wrangell Island in southeast Alaska, where they could settle on a few acres and have some chickens. A stretch of highway a few miles north, the only road into town, did make her nervous; there, waterfalls cascaded and rocks tumbled from towering bluffs on stormy …
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The crime crisis in Haiti has prompted past allegations to resurface about the roles former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton played in the nation’s recovery after a 2010 earthquake. “I got a chance to watch a lot of the things that happened on the ground,” Jack Brewer, a former NFL player and philanthropist who has pursued …
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A Florida deputy trying to apprehend a suspect hung onto his moving car while using a taser before shooting him – a measure that ultimately proved fatal. The incident, which was captured on body camera footage, went down in Hudson on Saturday around 5:30 p.m., the Pasco Sheriff’s Office shared on Facebook. A deputy recognized the suspect, 40-year-old Paul Smith, …
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One of Vermont’s historic covered bridges has fallen under threat from modern technology. Box truck drivers relying on GPS continually crash through Lyndon’s 140-year-old Miller’s Run bridge despite signs, including a flashing one, to deter vehicles that are too tall or too heavy from crossing. Drivers can face a fine of $5,000 from the town, plus state penalties. Still, the …
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Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will have an academic building named after him at William & Mary, the university in Virginia where he holds the honorary position of chancellor, the school announced Wednesday. Robert M. Gates Hall will be a hub for disciplines that include economic development and inequality, geopolitical conflict, national security and conservation, the school said in …
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The U.S. Air Force announced this week that it tested a hypersonic missile over the Pacific Ocean. The military reportedly conducted the weapons test on Sunday via a B-52H Stratofortress taking off from a base in Guam. “This test launched a full prototype operational hypersonic missile and focused on the ARRW’s end-to-end performance,” an Air Force spokesperson said in a …
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California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice of its land back to serve as a new gateway to Redwood National and State Parks visited by 1 million people a year. The Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with …
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Elizabeth “Libby” Murdaugh, the mother of Alex Murdaugh who played an important part in her son’s adamant denials that he killed his wife and son, has died. Libby Murdaugh was in hospice care Tuesday when she died, according to Peeples-Rhoden Funeral Home in Hampton County. She was a librarian and teacher in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Libby Murdaugh had been …
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A long-anticipated high-energy laser weapon will no longer be an option for Air Force special operations gunships after “technical challenges” forced leaders to scrap at least one idea for its use. The Air Force’s Airborne High Energy Laser, or AHEL, missed its “available integration and flight test window” to be used on the AC-130J Ghostrider gunship, meaning the high-tech weapon …
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A federal judge in Tennessee has ordered the FBI to hand over the “manifesto” left behind by a transgender killer who gunned down three adults and three children at the Covenant Christian School in Nashville last year before responding officers put an end to the mayhem. Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who police said identified as a trans male and went by …
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