APD responded to an apartment on the 800-block of Bunn Street early Thursday morning after receiving an unintelligible hangup call from that address. The call came in at 3:16 am on Thursday. A call-back to that phone only managed to get another person, this time a male, who “yelled profanities at the dispatcher,” APD reported. […]
(Seattle) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has helped deliver safe drinking water to the residents of the apartment complex at 1117 Chugach Way in Anchorage, where the building’s owner, Trudy Tush, had ignored years of effort by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation to get her to fix an arsenic-contaminated well that had long […]
Adding to the mountain of evidence that “oil trains are a disaster for our health, our safety, and our climate”—an argument environmentalists have been making for years—a 31-car freight train derailed in Iowa and started leaking crude oil into floodwaters on Friday morning, forcing evacuations of nearby homes and raising concerns about drinking water contamination. The Sioux County Sheriff […]
Tel Aviv — Researchers have long known that there is a link between nicotine and alcohol consumption. But the nature of the connection — how long it lasts, which begets which — remains a mystery. A new Tel Aviv University study finds that nicotine exposure during adolescence can predict increased alcohol intake in adulthood. This […]