Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE With a mandatory evacuation in place, residents, businesses and utilities in North Carolina’s low-lying barrier islands are bracing for a potentially historic impact from Hurricane Florence. “We’re definitely preparing for […]
Daily Archives: September 11, 2018
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Hurricane Florence is scheduled to stall and make a lengthy stay on the East Coast. Forecasters predict that before it hits landfall, Florence will grow to a category 5. You need to stay on top of the latest weather alerts if you live along the Atlantic. The National Weather Service […]
The GPS control segment is a global network of ground facilities that track the satellites, monitor their transmissions, perform analyses, and send commands and data to the constellation. WASHINGTON – The scheduled December launch of the first GPS 3 satellite has been described by the U.S. Air Force as the […]
Active shooters with semi-automatic rifles wound and kill twice as many people as those using weapons that don’t self-load, although chances of dying if hit in either type of assault are the same, a new analysis shows. Researchers examined FBI data on nearly 250 active shooter incidents in the United […]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles prosecutors said on Tuesday they would not charge Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter over a 2003 sexual assault accusation because it fell outside the California statute of limitations. FILE PHOTO: Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys poses at 30th annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards […]
An example of a good go bag. Alina Bradford/CNET The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted the 2017 hurricane season would be above normal in activity, and boy was it! In the Atlantic, there ended up being 10 hurricanes, six of them category 3 or stronger. Hurricane Harvey alone displaced tens of […]
The Predator has found itself at the centre of a controversy it could have avoided. Star of the newest Predator movie Olivia Munn was alerted to the fact that an extra in a scene with her was a convicted sex offender. The actor, Steven Wilder Striegel, had been convicted and […]
With new iPhones just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about your upgrade plans. Of course you want one of the new models — but you’ve already paid a pretty penny for one of the old ones. Solution: Sell that old iPhone to help subsidize the new one. […]