Archive for June 2022
Officials Try to Deliver Aid to Flooded South Asia Villages
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Authorities in India and Bangladesh struggled Monday to deliver food and drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from their homes in days of flooding that have submerged wide swaths of the countries. The … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreSeattle Jury Convicts Hacker for Massive Capital One Breach
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Seattle tech worker of several charges related to a massive hack of Capital One bank and other companies in 2019. Paige Thompson, 36, a former Amazon software engineer who … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreTwo Charged with Murder After Deadly Blast Kills 4
BLACK JACK, Mo. (AP) — Investigators arrested two men on murder charges for allegedly conspiring to manufacture bootleg fireworks in a house near St. Louis that exploded early Friday, killing four people and critically injuring several other people, the Post-Dispatch … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreN.C. Supreme Court Restores Jury Award to Elderly Couple for Home Invasion
An elderly couple who survived a home invasion robbery plotted by an employee of a home health care business that they’d hired to care for them is entitled to the $750,000 that a jury awarded to them because of the … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreCalifornia Bill Would Make Gunowners Buy Liability Insurance
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would be the first state to require gun owners to buy liability insurance to cover the negligent or accidental use of their firearms, if lawmakers approve a measure announced Thursday. “Guns kill more people than … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreCalifornia Railroad Tests Use of Quake Alerts to Stop Trains
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California regional passenger rail service announced Thursday that is testing technology that will use the West Coast’s earthquake early warning system to automatically slow or stop trains before shaking begins. The five-county Metrolink system … Source: Claims Journal
Read More8 More Dead as India’s Assam State Reels Under Floods
GAUHATI, India (AP) — Massive flooding and mudslides in northeastern India’s Assam state have claimed eight more lives, officials said Sunday, taking the death toll to 62 from weeks of heavy rains that caused one of Asia’s largest rivers to … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreFour Buildings at Observatory in Arizona Lost in Wildfire
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Four non-scientific buildings at the Kitt Peak National Observatory southwest of Tucson were lost in a wildfire, but early indications show other buildings on the property didn’t appear to be damaged, authorities said Saturday. Buell T. … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreSpain, Germany Battle Wildfires Amid Unusual Heat Wave
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Firefighters in Spain and Germany struggled to contain wildfires on Sunday amid an unusual heat wave in Western Europe for this time of year. The worst damage in Spain has been in the northwest province of … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreYellowstone Flooding Rebuild Could Take Years, Cost Billions
Created in 1872 as the United States was recovering from the Civil War, Yellowstone was the first of the national parks that came to be referred to as America’s best idea. Now, the home to gushing geysers, thundering waterfalls and … Source: Claims Journal
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