Police in the midwestern city of Columbus say at least nine people were injured on the campus of Ohio State University when an attacker drove a vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians and then began stabbing them. The suspect was shot and killed by police. “We have to consider that it is a terrorist attack,” […]
Rabies is a death sentence for any animal. Experts have wondered how a virus survives when it kills all the creatures it infects. “We don’t have a really good answer to that,” said UAF’s Karsten Hueffer. “It probably has to do with the long incubation time of the virus, which can be months.” Hueffer and […]
A Mississippi man who was attending college at Mississippi State University as a Psychology student has been sentenced to eight years in prison and 15 years probation after he was convicted on Federal terrorism charges. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to join up with ISIS in Syria. 22-year-old Muhannad Dakhlalla, and his fiancee, Jaelyn Young, were arrested […]
As piles of wet snow fell, an unexpected guest rapped at the window. My wife, Kristen, heard it bump into the glass. She was soon cupping in her hands a delicate bird she saw perched on the windowsill. “It’s a golden-crowned kinglet!” she said. Kristen is a bird biologist, but I was surprised at her […]