A fire spotted earlier this weeks at a metal recycling factory in Becker has been extinguished, officials said Saturday. Becker police say private firefighters hired by the company put out...
February 23, 2020
The Transportation Security Administration said Sunday it has stopped allowing employees to use the China-owned video app TikTok to create social media posts for the agency after the Senate's top...
February 23, 2020
A bridge in Cincinnati may be closed to motorists for most of 2021 while it's restored, officials said. Repairs of the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge will likely start in...
February 23, 2020
The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline remained steady at $2.53 per gallon over the past two weeks. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the...
February 23, 2020
Ryan Newman says he suffered a head injury in his crash on the last lap of the Daytona 500 but did not disclose details, and there's no timetable for his...
February 23, 2020
Wildlife authorities and utility officials have been taking aim at one of the leading killers of bald eagles in New Jersey — electrocution on power lines. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports...
February 23, 2020
An Oklahoma electric utility now has approval from the state for a share of a massive wind farm project proposed for seven counties in north-central Oklahoma. Public Service Co. of...
February 23, 2020
Alabama's conservation agency says it's raising flounder for the first time to supplement a decline in the natural population of the flat fish in coastal waters. Workers with the Marine...
February 23, 2020
Woodbury County leaders hope voters will approve building a new $50.3 million jail on the outskirts of Sioux City to replace the current aging facility. The new larger jail would...
February 23, 2020
Spanish authorities said Sunday that they have closed airports on the Canary Islands because of a wind storm that is blinding the archipelago with sand and dust. Spain's airport authorities...
February 23, 2020
The American Queen Steamboat Co. says its newest cruise paddlewheeler has passed its second sea trial and will make its first cruise in April from New Orleans to Memphis. The...
February 23, 2020
A California man who said he wanted to fly to the edge of outer space to see if the world is round has died after his home-built rocket blasted off...
February 23, 2020
An injured hiker in Washington state was airlifted to safety over the weekend after crawling through the forest for eight hours to get cell phone service, a TV station reported...
February 23, 2020
A military repair depot in central Pennsylvania has announced plans to lay off or reassign hundreds of contract employees due to an anticipated decrease in workload. Letterkenney Army Depot said...
February 23, 2020
Seasonal ferry service between Maine and Nova Scotia is scheduled to resume this summer. Bay Ferries, the Canadian ferry company, said service is expected to begin by June 26, the...
February 23, 2020
Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. voters will cast ballots this year on devices that look and feel like the discredited paperless voting machines they once used, yet leave a paper...
February 23, 2020
In the rush to replace insecure, unreliable electronic voting machines after Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential race, state and local officials have scrambled to acquire more trustworthy equipment...
February 23, 2020
Kansas lawmakers are considering blocking the sale of raw milk or requiring farmers to include warning labels on packaging after the state abandoned a law prohibiting farmers from advertising raw...
February 23, 2020
The complex discussions on whether to sell South Carolina's state-owned utility will continue all next week in Statehouse budget committees. The House Ways and Means Committee will enter the discussion...
February 23, 2020
Loose dogs are such a problem in a south Georgia mobile home park that it's not safe to deliver the mail, postal officials say. One of the dogs bit a...
February 23, 2020
Many Kansas counties'websites may be at risk as they lack basic protocols that make it easier for hackers to impersonate websites in order to install malware or trick individuals into...
February 23, 2020
Gov. John Bel Edwards' administration plans an expansion of coastal restoration and flood protection efforts that for the first time will target greenhouse gas emissions by Louisiana industry as a...
February 23, 2020
While wineries in California are spending money on giant refrigeration rigs to cold-stabilize their wine, Jackson Hole Winery just opens its doors. Anthony Schroth, founder and vintner of the winery,...
February 23, 2020
Officials in Two New Mexico counties and rural residents are standing up against a proposed transmission line that would connect the potential for more wind farms with markets in other...
February 23, 2020
The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad has debuted its first locomotive that runs on oil, a more environmentally friendly fuel source that holds less fire risk than a traditional...
February 23, 2020
Navajo and Hopi families in northeastern Arizona that have long relied on coal to heat their homes are looking to other sources after last year's closure of a coal mine....
February 23, 2020
When the first complaint about the personalized “DEPORTM” Utah license plate was filed in 2016, the state employee who received it thought approving the vanity plate had been a mistake....
February 23, 2020
Bangladesh's leading cellphone operator paid $117 million to the country's telecommunication regulator on Sunday amid a protracted legal tussle with the government that could result in the loss of its...
February 23, 2020
Warning that China's virus epidemic is “still grim and complex,” President Xi Jinping called Sunday for more efforts to stop the outbreak, revive industry and prevent the disease from disrupting...
February 23, 2020
Concerns from the Federal Aviation Administration that a five-story hotel planned for the Burlington International Airport could interfere with the airport's radar system is forcing developers to relocate the proposed...
February 23, 2020
Rhode Island's main airport is getting a $4.7 million grant to modernize the terminal, acquire land and study effective noise reduction strategies. U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat,...
February 23, 2020
Construction is expected to start this spring on a project more than doubling Indiana Michigan Power's electricity production from solar energy sources. The Fort Wayne-based company has won approval from...
February 23, 2020
Crunch time is coming for Nebraska lawmakers now that this year's session is nearly half over, and they've winnowed down their bills to a few top priorities. Lawmakers each get...
February 23, 2020
An Ohio city is looking to the state for money to demolish an abandoned hospital that's become a dangerous eyesore. The former St. Joseph Riverside Hospital in Warren in northeastern...
February 23, 2020
Officials are hoping to find a new buyer after the popular Indiana Beach amusement park that had operated for nearly a century recently closed with little notice. Apex Parks Group,...
February 23, 2020
Antebellum Southern plantations were built on the backs of enslaved people, and many of those plantations hold places of honor on the National Register of Historic Places - but don't...
February 23, 2020
A floral silk shirt with gold leaf buttons hangs on a rack at the DifferentRegard boutique, along with a “Trilogy” dress that can be worn three ways. Two Baltimore natives...
February 23, 2020
The Japanese soldiers came out of their concrete “pill box” with bayonets fixed, determined to get the Marine who had been killing them all afternoon with a flamethrower. Their target...
February 23, 2020
Companies that are responsible for checking the quality of Idaho's road materials have altered the results of their asphalt tests thousands of times, government documents show. Those changes may have...
February 23, 2020
Thailand's disbanded opposition Future Forward Party attacked the government Sunday for allegedly colluding with Malaysia's former prime minister to cover up the 1MDB financial scandal, for which former Malaysian leader...
