Signaling the beginning of the bar-b-q season, the first salmon from the Copper River arrived in Seattle on Friday morning and first off the Alaska Air Cargo jet was a 48-pound King brought off the plane by Alaska Airline captain David Boshell and the aircraft’s first officer Melissa Van Dyke. The King Salmon got the […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell Monday joined National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, philanthropist David Rubenstein, and Trust for the National Mall President Caroline Cunningham to re-open the Washington Monument nearly three years after an earthquake significantly damaged its marble and granite structure. “Thanks to the generosity and patriotism of David […]
The U.S. Congressional candidate who ran neck and neck with “American Idol” star Clay Aiken in the May 6th North Carolina Democratic Primary race died after falling in his home according to the Asheboro Courier-Tribune. He took a serious fall at 1:30 pm and was pronounced dead by the emergency responders when they arrived at […]
Over 2,000 residents were evacuated from Fritch and Sanford and at least 131 structures went up in flames as a drought fed wildfire torched two square miles to the northeast of Amarillo, Texas, according to fire officials there. There is little information as to what caused the blaze that began in the small mobile home community of […]