A fire at a low-level radioactive waste dump in Nye County that shut down a 140-mile stretch of Nevada’s main north-south highway for almost 24 hours in October was caused by rainfall that seeped through a compromised cover and reacted with metallic sodium, according to a report released Thursday.
The Mississippi River flung refrigerators, cars and tree trunks past Andrew Dallwitz as he tried to save what he could of his marina and his home in the bay of Portage des Sioux.
The FBI is offering up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest or conviction of the person or people responsible for wrapping bacon around a central Las Vegas mosque’s front door handles Sunday morning.
The epic storm system that has claimed dozens of lives is barreling east, ready to drop ice and heavy snow in the Midwest and Northeast as well as intense rain in the Southeast.
Strong and gusty thunderstorms with tornadoes were threatening the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday, following tornadoes and floods over the Christmas holiday season that killed at least 43 people in the South and Midwest and snarled transportation during a busy travel time.
As soon as the dog was released, it was clear something was wrong. “My baby,” Arturo Arenas-Alvarez said in halting English as a Henderson police K9 ran toward his sport utility vehicle, which sat nearby in a parking lot. “I’ve got my baby.”
Storms hit the South, Southwest and Midwest over the Christmas holiday weekend, unleashing floods and tornadoes that killed at least 43 people, flattened buildings and snarled transportation for millions during a busy travel time.
Five people died in Texas as a storm system brought tornadoes and flooding to the state on Saturday, increasing the death toll from harsh weather in the southern United States this week to 23, according to officials and local media.
Crews and utility workers began cleaning up widespread damage on Thursday left by severe storms that spawned tornadoes across six states in the South and Midwest, killing at least 14 people and destroying scores of homes.
Two adults and three children were identified as the people killed in a small-airplane crash in Bakersfield, Calif., on Saturday, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office said.
