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"A skydiver was killed when her parachute failed to properly deploy during a jump today in Lodi, California," Ian Gregor with the Federal Aviation Administration said in an email sent to The Record. "The skydiver was using her own parachuting equipment."
What was his winning time? 2. Electric City parking garage at Spruce Street and Penn Avenue is owned by a company controlled by which businessman? 3. Postal employees rallied Monday in downtown Scranton near the office of U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright for what purpose? 5. What school district's business office will look into soliciting bids for a credit collection agency to tackle a growing problem: student lunch debt? 6. Where will a utility company replace a sewer line that overflowed during a recent storm, spewing sewage from a manhole into a vacant lot? 8. The former Charl-Mont restaurant, a centerpiece of the former Globe store, will become what when Lackawanna County moves in? 9. The former William T. Smith Manual Training School will soon provide extra classroom and office space for what school? Answers: 1. D; 2. B; 3. A; 4. C; 5. D; 6. B; 7. B; 8. A; 9. C; 10. D We welcome user ... (more)
A Whitetail buck crosses one of the few roads in the former Savanna Army Depot/Lost Mound Unit. A Whitetail buck crosses one of the few roads in the former Savanna Army Depot/Lost Mound Unit.
On Oct. 13, 1999, the Senate rejected the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, with 48 senators voting in favor and 51 against, far short of the 67 needed for ratification. In 1775, the United States Navy had its origins as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, left, and Newport Beach City Council Member Diane Dixon, listen to Maria Korcsmaros, right, who was attacked by a great white shark in 2016, talk about the importance of using shark-detecting technology. A shark-detecting buoy installed off the Balboa Pier in Newport Beach is the latest tool in Southern California lifeguards' attempt to get ahead of a growing number of shark-related incidents in the region.
In this May 1, 2014 photo, irrigation water runs along a dried-up ditch between rice farms in Richvale, Calif. In dry California, water is fetching record high prices.
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency announces the availability of grant dollars to assist cities, schools, community organizations, civic groups, watershed organizations, and conservation groups, etc., with riparian tree planting projects.
U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has scheduled a visit next week to Montana, where he's expected to finalize a proposal to block new mining claims on the forested public lands just outside Yellowstone National Park.
Following up on the filing of a notice of appeal in the magazine ban case on Friday, September 28, 2018, Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs counsel filed additional papers with the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit seeking both an expedited appeal and an injunction halting enforcement of the law until the appeal is decided. View the papers seeking an expedited appeala Z here .View the papers seeking an injunction halting enforcement of the law here .
The U.S. Supreme Court handed a victory to proponents of open access to California's coastline on Monday, declining the appeal of a billionaire venture capitalist seeking to keep a popular beach locked behind a gate as his exclusive property. FILE PHOTO: A sign and locked gate are shown at the entrance to a private road to Martins Beach, a popular surfing and fishing spot, in Half Moon Bay, California, U.S., March 14, 2013.
Insisting that fallen trees or limbs are not an eyesore, the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission reaffirmed its decision to leave downed wood where it crashes if there's no public danger. The Park Department office has received complaints that fallen branches accumulating in the park are unsightly and should be cleaned up.
DAVIS, Calif: This year USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service is celebrating its silver anniversary of providing conservation easements nationwide. But NRCS has offered easement options through the Farm Bill to California landowners for the past 26 years.
WEBVTT LAKE TAHOE. MAX: TAKE A WALK BESIDE THE UPPER TRUCKEE RIVER WITH RICHARD AND LINDA VANCE, AND YOU CAN SEE WHY IT'S EASY TO BECOME IMMERSED IN A BEAUTY UNIQUE TO THE SIERRA.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of the Inspector General released a report today finding that the agency's practice of routinely granting "emergency" approval for use of pesticides across millions of acres does not effectively measure risks to human health or the environment. The inspector general recommended that the EPA "develop and implement applicable outcome-based performance measures to demonstrate the human health and environmental effects of the EPA's emergency exemption decisions."
Background check liars are often so desperate to get a gun that they'll risk going to jail. Except almost no one puts them in jail: Our view When gun buyers are caught in 'lie-and-try,' how many are prosecuted? 12 Background check liars are often so desperate to get a gun that they'll risk going to jail.
A group of teachers work on an exercise on butterfly migration during an educator camp Wednesday July 19, 2017 at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in Alamo.
With a pair of leading Republicans, Reps. Doug Lamborn and Mike Coffman, sitting in powerful positions on the House Armed Services Committee, Colorado has had a relatively easy ride in recent years.
A unique wildlife refuge on the site of a former nuclear weapons plant in Colorado is opening its gates on Saturday, after a confusing day when officials first said they would not open the refuge and then said they would. The opening of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, where the U.S. government made plutonium triggers for nuclear bombs, has been in the works for months, surviving court challenges and protests.
A unique wildlife refuge on the site of a former nuclear weapons plant in Colorado is opening its gates on Saturday, after a confusing day when officials first said they would not open the refuge and then said they would. The opening of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, where the U.S. government made plutonium triggers for nuclear bombs, has been in the works for months, surviving court challenges and protests.