More than 100 people were trapped on a highway in western Colorado after rains in a wildfire burn area triggered mudslides Thursday night. Officials said crews were working Friday to evacuate people stranded in the area. (July 30)
Emergency crews in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado, helped rescue about 80 vehicles that were trapped by mudslides. Interstate 70 will remain closed throughout the weekend.
More than 100 people had to spend the night on a highway, including nearly 30 who took refuge in a tunnel, after rain over an area burned by a wildfire once again triggered mudslides in western Colorado, authorities said Friday. The people were caught with their vehicles on Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon on Thursday night. The tunnel serves as a 24-hour operations center for the Colorado Department of Transportation, so it is relatively well-lit and has telephones, Stowe said.
Authorities say about 20 people had to spend the night inside a highway tunnel after rain over an area burned by a wildfire once again triggered mudslides in western Colorado
When back-to-back hurricanes caused a mudslide that destroyed the village of La Reina, Friar Leopoldo Serrano feared survivors would join the Honduran exodus to the United States. So, he took a leap of faith to get land for a new town. (July 30)
The actor owns a luxurious holiday home in the area.
Debris and mudslides from a burn scar around Glenwood Canyon forced closure of the crucial east-west artery that passes through the Rocky Mountains.
After an incident February at the Asheville airport, Republican Cawthorn will likely face fines and a loss of any special fast-track boarding status.
Judy and Jim Shanks know the exact date their home’s well went dry — June 24. Since then, their life has been an endless cycle of imposing on relatives for showers and laundry, hauling water to feed a small herd of cattle and desperately waiting for a local well-drilling company to make it to their name on a monthslong wait list. The couple's well is among potentially hundreds that have dried up in recent weeks in an area near the Oregon-California border suffering through a historic drought, leaving homes with no running water just a few months after the federal government shut off irrigation to hundreds of the region's farmers for the first time ever.
Daryl Barker was passionately against a COVID-19 vaccination, and so were his relatives. Then 10 of them got sick and Barker, at just 31, ended up in a Missouri intensive care unit fighting for his life. It's a scenario playing out time and again at Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach, where 22 people died from the virus in the first 23 days of July.
An estimated 2 million abandoned oil and gas wells across the country, forgotten or ignored by the energy companies that drilled them, are believed to be leaking toxic chemicals. But that money isn't enough to plug all the wells that need it.
Nicholas Prevost last saw Ashley Espinosa-Sanchez at the Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday night
Daryl Barker opposed getting a COVID-19 vaccination. Then he ended up in a Missouri intensive care unit. It’s a scenario playing out time and again at Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach, where more than 20 people have died this month. (July 29)
Not a single American is inside the top 10 after the opening round of the Olympics.
American favourite Connor Fields crashed heavily in the third run of his semi-final in the Olympic men's BMX race on Friday and was taken off the track on a stretcher. Fields crashed on the first 180 corner and was treated by medical staff before being carried away and loaded into an ambulance. An American team spokesperson later said he was "awake" and awaiting further evaluation, although the extent of his injuries were still not clear.
Shawn Johnson's daughter contracted an illness that has prompted her to be isolated from her family, including her newborn brother.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) -The most powerful U.S. earthquake in half a century left Alaska mostly unscathed, thanks to the remote location and depth of the epicenter, officials said on Thursday. Several Alaskan coastal communities were evacuated following the quake. Among them was Seward on the Kenai Peninsula, south of Anchorage, where sirens blared and residents were told to move to higher ground.
Three months after the unexpected death of her dad, swimmer Annie Lazor won a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. But, as she said, "He just loved watching me do what I love."
The Citi Open men's singles draw was unveiled on Friday. Here's who top seed Rafael Nadal will face first.
Signing Grubauer was the biggest splash made by the NHL’s newest franchise, which gave him a six-year, $35.4 million deal.
Video filmed by Jennifer Sonne, a local resident, showed tsunami warning sirens blaring in the city of Kodiak.The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake, which struck at 10:15 p.m. local time (0615 GMT Thursday), was at a depth of 35 km.The quake reportedly struck about 91 km east-southeast of Perryville in Alaska. It was about 500 miles from Anchorage, Alaska's biggest city. It was followed by seven aftershocks, two of them above magnitude 6.0, according to USGS.
