Washington D.C., May 20, 2022 – U.S. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore cited the extreme conditions Friday in announcing a pause on prescribed fire operations on all national forest lands while his agency conducts a 90-day review of protocols,...
May 23, 2022 8:30 am / no comments
May 21, 2022 (FDA) The J. M. Smucker Co. is recalling select Jif® peanut butter products sold in the U.S. due to potential Salmonella contamination. Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young...
May 21, 2022 9:58 am / no comments
MN utility commission: CO2 pipelines should be regulated
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP ) — Minnesota utility regulators have decided pipelines that carry carbon dioxide are hazardous and therefore subject to state approval. The decision by the Public...
May 20, 2022 9:45 am / no comments
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket appeared briefly in court Thursday after a grand jury indicted him on a first-degree murder charge. Assistant district attorney Gary Hackbush said...
May 19, 2022 1:51 pm / no comments
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s commissioner says a shuttered baby formula factory could be up and running by next week. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf faced congressional anger Thursday for not answering questions...
May 19, 2022 1:44 pm / no comments
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say the white 18-year-old who killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket during a rampage that targeted Black people had previously made a threat at his high school. But they say Payton Gendron was never charged...
May 16, 2022 8:59 am / no comments
May 11, 2022 – The only way to understand the nuances of working a fireline is by being on one. The six-year-old Fire Tigers Program recently took more than 50 Clemson University students and put them through the rigors of classroom training,...
May 11, 2022 11:28 am / no comments
The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will conduct its 30th annual food drive on Saturday, May 14.
Stamp Out Hunger, the country’s largest one-day food drive, provides communities with an easy way to donate food to those...
May 10, 2022 6:18 am / no comments
NEW YORK (AP) — The Pulitzer Prizes are set Monday to honor the best journalism from a tumultuous year that saw an insurrection, the frantic end of the United States’ longest war and fallout from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and catastrophic...
May 9, 2022 9:20 am / no comments
Trial starts for driver who ran down Times Square tourists
NEW YORK (AP) — The man behind the wheel of the car that barreled through crowds of pedestrians in New York City’s Times Square, killing a woman and injuring 22 other people, is...
May 7, 2022 1:10 pm / no comments