Governor Brian Sandoval today announced he has signed a letter to President Donald Trump respectfully requesting a major disaster declaration for Northern Nevada following the February weather event and sent a formal communication to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for assistance specific to Lemmon Valley in Washoe Valley. “I was grateful for the three-day approval for the funds related to the January event but even at that time, we knew the sustained weather event would likely require a second request from our federal partners,” said Governor Brian Sandoval.
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Extensive searches turn up no new sign of missing Bering Sea crab boat or crew
The search continued on Monday for the 92-foot fishing vessel Destination, which went missing with six people aboard in the Bering Sea. The search is still on for a crabbing vessel and its six crew members missing for nearly three days in the brutal waters of the Bering Sea, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday afternoon.
Today in History
On Feb. 3, 1917, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, which had announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, the same day an American cargo ship, the SS Housatonic, was sunk by a U-boat off Britain after the crew was allowed to board lifeboats. In 1867, Crown Prince Mutsuhito became Japan’s 122nd emperor at age 14 four days after the death of his father, Emperor Komei .
As Charleston Harbor deepening moves forward, Trump’s protectionism seen as threat
The MSC Chicago container ship passes by Waterfront Park on its way to the Port of Charleston’s Wando Welch Terminal. The State Ports Authority plans to dredge Charleston Harbor to 52 feet to better accommodate large ships traveling through an expanded Panama Canal to East Coast ports.
Icebreakers of the Chicago River: How bubblers, boats and brawn keep the city safe each winter
Devon Neff used to live in an apartment at Marina City, the honeycomb-like high rise overlooking Chicago’s downtown. During the winter, he would often admire the frozen Chicago River … until something unusual would happen.
2 Guardsmen dead after Apache crash in Texas
Two Army National Guardsmen were killed Wednesday afternoon when the AH-64 Apache helicopter that they were flying crashed into Galveston Bay in Texas, the state’s National Guard said. The soldiers were conducting a “routine training flight” when the helicopter crashed into the water just off the shore of the Bayport Cruise Terminal, about 25 miles southeast of Houston, about 4 p.m. local time, according to a Texas Military Department statement.
2 Guardsmen dead after Apache crash in Texas
Two Army National Guardsmen were killed Wednesday afternoon when the AH-64 Apache helicopter that they were flying crashed into Galveston Bay in Texas, the state’s National Guard said. The soldiers were conducting a “routine training flight” when the helicopter crashed into the water just off the shore of the Bayport Cruise Terminal, about 25 miles southeast of Houston, about 4 p.m. local time, according to a Texas Military Department statement.
Cam Newton scores with visit to boy battling heart condition
By TAMARA LUSH Associated Press Carrie Fisher and Florence Henderson – and other icons of Generation X’s youth – are now gone, stolen by the cruel thief that is 2016. The year has left the… By TAMARA LUSH Associated Press Princess Leia was our first girl movie heroine, and we made our moms braid brunette yarn so we’d have earmuff buns for Halloween.
More than 7,100 migrant deaths in 2016 is a world record; most were in Mediterranean
More migrants have died or disappeared in 2016 than in any previous recorded year, more than half of them in the Mediterranean Sea. In a survey of migration routes across the world, the International Organization for Migration reported last week that 7,189 migrants and refugees have died so far this year.