(JUNEAU, Alaska) – Motor vehicle traffic fatalities are on the rise this year in Alaska, and the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) would like to remind travelers to drive with care as the holidays approach. As of Nov. 21, Alaska has had 75 traffic fatalities in 69 fatal crashes in 2016, according […]
A 24-year-old Chattanooga, Tennessee bus driver, Johnthony Walker, has been arrested and charged with five counts of vehicular homicide after an accident that took the lives of at least five elementary school children on Monday, Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher said in a late night press conference. According to the Chattanooga police, Walker was traveling “well above […]
A powerful aftershock shook New Zealand’s South Island Monday, just hours after being hit by a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake. “It looks as though it’s the infrastructure that’s the biggest problem,” said Civil Defense Minister Gerry Brownlee after flying over the affected area with Prime Minister John Key. A slip dam caused by earthquakes had blocked […]
The U.S. Geological Survey put the magnitude at 6.2 with an epicenter about 10 kilometers southeast of the town of Norcia. The shaking was also felt across a large part of the Umbria region, including the capital, Rome, 150 kilometers away. The hardest-hit areas included the towns of Amatrice and Accumoli. “Three quarters of the […]