Death under investigation at Burning Man as flooding strands thousands at Nevada festival site
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Authorities in Nevada were investigating a death at the site of the Burning Man festival where thousands of attendees remained stranded Saturday night as flooding from storms swept through the Nevada desert.
Today in History: September 3, Treaty of Paris is signed ending Revolutionary War
Today is Sunday, Sept. 3, the 246th day of 2023. There are 119 days left in the year.
2 people charged with looting as residents worry about burglaries following Hurricane Idalia
HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Two people were charged with looting a home damaged by Hurricane Idalia in Florida’s Big Bend region, as residents’ concerns grew that burglars could be tempted to hit other hurricane-ravaged homes since law enforcement is stretched thin in the remote, wooded area along the Gulf Coast.
Children hit hardest by the pandemic are now the big kids at school. Many...
They were the kids most disrupted by the pandemic, the ones who were still learning to write their names and tie their shoes when schools shut down in the spring of 2020.
Maui fire missing list falls slightly to 385. Governor had indicated it would be...
HONOLULU (AP) — The number of people on the official list of those missing from the Maui wildfire stood at 385 on Friday, nearly unchanged from a week earlier.
Ohio votes on abortion rights this fall. Misinformation about the proposal is already spreading
An effort to guarantee access to abortion rights in Ohio, a November ballot measure, is already fueling misleading claims about how it could influence abortion care, gender-related health care and parental consent in the state.
Texas wanted armed officers at every school after Uvalde. Many can’t meet that standard
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A vision of armed officers at every school in Texas is crashing into the reality of not enough money or police as a new mandate took effect Friday, showing how a goal more states are embracing in response to America’s cycle of mass killings is proving unworkable in many communities.
Vandalism damages monument to frontiersman ‘Kit’ Carson, who led campaigns against Native Americans
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Police in New Mexico’s capital city on Friday were investigating the partial destruction of a public monument to a 19th century frontiersman and U.S. soldier who had a leading role in the death of hundreds of Native Americans during Anglo-American settlement of the American West.
A 98-year-old German man is charged as an accessory to murder at a Nazi...
BERLIN (AP) — A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors said Friday.
‘Margaritaville’ singer Jimmy Buffett, who turned beach-bum life into an empire, dies at 76
Jimmy Buffett celebrated slackers before the word existed, even though he was hardly one himself.
