Twin F-22 Raptor fighters were scrambled out of Anchorage on Monday evening as two Russian TU-95 Bear bombers were detected approaching the area of Kodiak Island, the Pentagon is reporting. The Raptors flew to an area approximately 100 miles off of the Kodiak Archipelago supported by an E-3 Sentry radar aircraft and a KC-135 tanker […]
The Cleveland man, 37-year-old Steve Stephens, who notoriously video-taped his 74-year-old victim, as he shot him to death in that city, is now dead from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head in Erie County in Northern Pennsylvania, authorities in that state report. A window attendant at a McDonalds in Harbor Creek Township at 11:10 am, after seeing […]
The massive Kaskawulsh Glacier in northern Canada has retreated about a mile up its valley over the past century. Last spring, its retreat triggered a geologic event at relatively breakneck speed. The toe of ice that was sending meltwater toward the Slims River and then north to the Bering Sea retreated so far that the […]
A relatively large near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three years ago will fly safely past Earth on April 19 at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers), or about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon. Although there is no possibility for the asteroid to collide with our planet, this will […]