YOLO COUNTY, Calif. — Across the West, firefighters are battling dozens of wildfires, and one of the biggest is in Yolo County, California. On Wednesday, firefighting helicopters flew into thick smoke to fight a fire that’s burned more than 80,000 acres in three rural counties west of Sacramento. Nearly 3,000 firefighters have been working around the clock, lighting backfires and…
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ARLINGTON, Va. — When a major airline needs a pilot to fly planes, they often look to the regional airlines. But when pilots for smaller commuter planes move over to the majors, it’s getting harder to find their replacements. Since 2013, Yuma, Arizona, a largely agricultural region of about 200,000, has seen airline departures drop more than 50 percent. Now,…
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NEW YORK — Joey “Jaws” Chestnut is this year’s men’s winner in the Nathan’s Famouse hot dog eating contest. Chestnut extended his reign as champion eater at the annual hot dog eating contest Wednesday, downing a record 74 wieners and buns in 10 minutes to take home the coveted Mustard Belt for an 11th time. Miki Sudo held onto her…
PHILADELPHIA — Twenty-nine people were arrested in Philadelphia Tuesday after a clash between some immigration policy protesters and police, reports CBS Philly. Protesters started gathering outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Center City on Monday and were still there on Tuesday when the scuffle broke out, the station reports. The protesters were calling to abolish ICE, a division…
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The unidentified woman was scaling the statue for at least a half hour, “refusing to come down.”
Heavy rain and flooding prompted Houston officials to cancel a Fourth of July concert, but they said fireworks will go on as scheduled. KHOU HOUSTON — Heavy rains that flooded some Houston streets prompted officials to cancel some Fourth of July holiday events, but the mayor’s office said Wednesday night’s fireworks show will go on as planned. National Weather Service…
TONIGHT: A few pop-up showers and storms will continue. Some storms will have gusty winds and frequent lightning before 11PM. It’s important if thunder roars, you go indoors. Look for temperatures to slide down through the 80s and then fall into the 70s. Lows will fall into the low to mid 70s overnight with light winds from the east. THURSDAY: More of…
AUSTIN, Texas — A former driver for a ride-hailing company Lyft faces several criminal charges after police say he sped off twice with a passenger in his vehicle against their will. Records show 45-year-old Daniel Kifle was booked into the Travis County Jail on Tuesday, charged with kidnapping, aggravated kidnapping and attempted sexual assault. Austin police say the driver picked…
Jaissaan Lovett says he was denied a chance to give his speech as his high school’s first black valedictorian, so his city’s mayor invited him to give it at City Hall. Youtube/City of Rochester, N.Y. Mayor’s Office When Jaissaan Lovett graduated last month as his high school’s first black valedictorian, he prepared a speech — but he says his principal…
Former Savoy, Ill. fire Capt. David “D.J.” Dunn Champaign County Jail URBANA, Ill. — A former central Illinois fire captain has been sentenced to 36 years in prison for drugging and raping a probationary employee during a party at his home last year. The News-Gazette reports former Savoy fire Capt. David “D.J.” Dunn apologized to his victim and the community during…
The “second civil war” is off to a fun start. A baseless claim by InfoWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones that Democrats will launch a civil war on July 4 has inspired a viral #SecondCivilWarLetters social media movement of users mocking that idea. #SecondCivilWarLetters became a top trending Twitter topic Wednesday as users wrote imaginary dispatches from what a civil war…
DENVER — A growing wildfire destroyed more than 100 homes in the Colorado mountains, while other blazes across the parched American West kept hundreds of other homes under evacuation orders and derailed holiday plans. Authorities announced late Monday that a fire near Fort Garland, about 205 miles southwest of Denver, had destroyed 104 homes in a mountain housing development started…
Awards for patriotism and humanitarianism will be presented at the annual Spirit of America Festival in Decatur.
A man covers his ears from noise as people attend the annual Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest on July 4, 2018, in the Coney Island neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images NEW YORK — Miki Sudo downed 37 franks to win her fifth-straight title in the women’s competition of the annual…
Hawaii is ending the sale of sunscreen containing two chemicals believed to harm coral reefs. Gov. David Ige on Tuesday signed legislation which makes Hawaii the first U.S. state to enact a ban on oxybenzone and octinoxate. “This is just one small step toward protecting and restoring the resiliency of Hawaii’s reefs,” Ige said at a signing ceremony for the…
Michael Amos, 20, is considered armed and dangerous.
A normal eater has a stomach that feels full after consuming about a liter or a liter and a half’s worth of food.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque police are investigating whether bones discovered Tuesday in an area where 11 women were found buried nearly a decade ago are human remains — a development that has sparked fears that there may have been more victims in an unsolved serial killing that has haunted the city. Construction workers building a park discovered the bones on…
“I’m blown away. People stand on the roof of their car and take pictures with their kids here… It’s so cool to see a good, positive response.”
Carlos Tovar and his family GoFundMe SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY, Calif. — A Northern California man was sucked to his death under by an irrigation pipe while on the Delta. CBS Sacramento reports that it’s a freak accident that has left his family questioning how it all happened. “Now a wonderful man is dead, he apparently got caught in an irrigation pipe…