First evidence for horseback riding dates back 5,000 years
WASHINGTON (AP) — Archaeologists have found the earliest direct evidence for horseback riding – an innovation that would transform history – in 5,000 year old human skeletons in central Europe.
Can the dogs of Chernobyl teach us new tricks on survival?
More than 35 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl roam among decaying, abandoned buildings in and around the closed plant – somehow still able to find food, breed and survive.
20 cars of Norfolk Southern cargo train derail in Ohio
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — About 20 cars of a Norfolk Southern cargo train derailed near Springfield Saturday evening, the second derailment of the company’s trains in Ohio in a month, officials said.
Former Spencerville mayor denied bond reduction for pandering charge
LIMA — A reduction in bond for the former Spencerville mayor charged with pandering obscenity involving a minor was denied Friday.
Half of California freed from drought thanks to rain, snow
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tremendous rains and snowfall since late last year have freed half of California from drought, but low groundwater levels remain a persistent problem, U.S. Drought Monitor data showed Thursday.
Egypt unveils newly discovered chamber inside Great Pyramid
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s antiquities authorities on Thursday unveiled a newly discovered, sealed-off chamber inside one of the Great Pyramids at Giza, just outside of Cairo, that dates back some 4,500 years ago.
Ohio derailment tests Sen. Brown’s push to buck Dem defeats
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Sherrod Brown has survived a decade of statewide Democratic losses in Ohio by building a reputation as the rare person in his party who can still connect with the white working-class voters who have increasingly shifted to Republicans.
Defense lawyers in Idaho killings case want gag order kept
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Defense attorneys for a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death asked the Idaho Supreme Court on Friday to keep a gag order in place, saying a challenge to the order filed by 30 news organizations is premature and that media coverage of the case has been “twisted.”
Reports: 3 children dead, 2 wounded in attack at Texas home
ITALY, Texas (AP) — News reports say three children have been killed and two other children wounded in an attack at at a home in Texas Friday.
Today in History: March 4, Franklin Roosevelt takes office
Today is Saturday, March 4, the 63rd day of 2023. There are 302 days left in the year.
