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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil and natural gas spills from tankers and pipelines in American waters dropped dramatically from the 1990s to the 2010 through 2019 decade, according to a new federal report. The amounts spilled and dumped in wastewater from drilling rigs and production platforms rose, but — if the disastrous 2010 Gulf of [...]
Sprawling allegations of abuse against cheerleaders reached Tennessee earlier this week in a case that escalates the accusations facing some of the sport’s top institutions. An adult coach sexually assaulted teenage boys at Premier Athletics, according to allegations in a federal lawsuit filed in Memphis that is similar to a previous complaint against Rockstar Cheer [...]
A decade after Superstorm Sandy pummeled New York and New Jersey in one of the costliest storms in the nation’s history, the federal government is proposing a $52 billion plan to build movable barriers and gates across bays, rivers and other waterways in the two states hardest-hit by the storm. The U.S. Army Corps of [...]
DETROIT (AP) — Some Hyundai and Kia cars and SUVs are missing a “key” anti-theft device and thieves know. An insurance industry group said those cars are stolen at nearly twice the rate of the rest of the auto industry because their keys lack computer chips for theft “immobilizer” systems. The thefts apparently started in [...]
AMALIA, N.M. (AP) — Biologist Bryan Bakevich unscrewed the top of a plastic bucket and removed a Rio Grande cutthroat trout that squirmed from his grasp and plopped onto the grassy bank of Middle Ponil Creek. "He wants to go home," Bakevich said, easing the fish into the chilly, narrow stream — the final stop [...]
WASHINGTON — A long-delayed plan to dismantle Interstate 375, a one-mile depressed freeway in Detroit that was built by demolishing black neighborhoods 60 years ago, was a big winner of federal money last week, the first Biden administration grant awarded to tear down a racially divisive roadway. The $104.6 million is among $1.5 billion in [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The wave of attempted book banning and restrictions continues to intensify, the American Library Association reported last week. Numbers for 2022 already approach last year's totals, which were the highest in decades. "I've never seen anything like this," says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom. "It's both [...]
As French chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud puts it, "Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important — fun, food, and life." Kitchens now might not play the center-of-everything roles that they did during the early days of the pandemic. However, even if you're spending more time away, you'll likely have become a little more [...]
When a water crisis forced schools back online in Jackson, Miss., fifth-grade teacher Ryan Johnson saw reminders everywhere of pandemic times. Two and a half years after schools switched to remote learning for COVID-19, he once again logged into online learning to see kids lying in bed at home while tuning in for his classes. [...]
DETROIT — When it came time to showcase its electric Chevrolet Equinox SUV to the public this year, General Motors decided against doing so at the big Detroit auto show, as it typically would have done in the past. Instead, it unveiled the Equinox six days earlier. GM's decision symbolized just how much smaller this [...]