FAIRBANKS, Alaska – People who want to participate in Alaska’s biggest guessing contest have until Sunday to buy tickets for the Nenana Ice Classic. Thousands of people each year pay to try to guess the exact date and time the ice will break up on the Tanana River in Nenana. …
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CRYSTAL, Minn. – Police have arrested the father of a 10-year-old boy whose body was found in the Mississippi River over the weekend. Kris Fletcher of the Crystal Police Department confirms in an email the arrest of Pierre Collins. Police have called Collins a “primary suspect” in the disappearance of …
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SANTA ANA, Calif. – A California appeals court has ruled that San Juan Capistrano’s tiered water-rates are unconstitutional. The 4th District Court of Appeal ruling Monday could have broader implications for other cities that use a similar pricing structure to encourage conservation. The ruling upholds an Orange County judge’s decision …
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The body of a missing California woman was reportedly identified Tuesday after being discovered in a remote part of the Cleveland National Forest. Orange County Sheriff’s Department officials said the remains of 27-year-old Erica Alonso were discovered late Monday night by Caltrans biologists. The coroner is scheduled to do an …
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AUSTIN, Texas – Investigators say a hoist suspended from a medical helicopter, which was carrying a nurse and patient from a Texas hiking trail, was spinning just before the nurse fell to her death. The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday released its preliminary report into the April 27 accident …
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SPOKANE, Wash. – An agreement has been reached to clean up the radioactive K West Basin on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the nation’s most polluted nuclear weapons production site. The deal was announced Tuesday between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, which owns Hanford. The …
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OMAHA, Neb. – An Omaha zoo worker is hospitalized in critical condition after being bitten by a large dragon on Sunday. Paramedics were called to the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium Sunday afternoon, and the female zoo worker was taken to the hospital. Few details about the incident were immediately …
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ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. – Six months after getting a 35-year sentence for killing her stepdaughter by forcing her to drink grape soda, a Tennessee prisoner is scheduled for an early parole hearing that could nearly halve her sentence. The Kingsport Times-News reports (http://bit.ly/1AL3fRf ) that a hearing for 58-year-old Mary Vaughn …
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A former San Marcos, Texas high school teacher has been found guilty and sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting a child. David Ross Guerrero was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault of a child, which stems back to a relationship he had with a student at San Marcos …
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Ken Squier, a longtime NASCAR announcer and broadcaster, has died. He was 88. Squier died Wednesday night in Waterbury, Vermont, according to the management of the local WDEV radio, which he owned. “Though he never sat behind the wheel of a stock car, Ken Squier contributed to the growth of …
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