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What we know about the Baltimore bridge collapse
March 29, 2024 - 2:10 PM

BALTIMORE - A cargo ship rammed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing the span to collapse and presumably killing six construction workers. On Wednesday, a day after the early-morning crash, officials with the National Transportation Safety Board boarded the ship and planned to recover information from its electronics and paperwork while divers searched for the bodies of workers who were still missing.
UN agency says 'famine is imminent' in northern Gaza, which Israel has largely isolated for months
March 18, 2024 - 4:03 AM

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) —
Texas keeping most truck inspections despite border gridlock
April 13, 2022 - 3:55 PM

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday defied intensifying pressure over his new border policy that has gridlocked trucks entering the U.S. and shut down some of the world's busiest trade bridges as the Mexican government, businesses and even some allies urge him to relent.
Limo operator avoids prison time in crash that killed 20
September 02, 2021 - 2:32 PM

SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — The operator of a limousine company was spared prison time Thursday in a 2018 crash that killed 20 people when catastrophic brake failure sent a stretch limo full of birthday revelers hurtling down a hill in upstate New York.
Indonesian divers find parts of crashed plane's black box
January 15, 2021 - 5:04 AM

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Divers found parts of the cockpit voice recorder on Friday as more personnel joined the search for wreckage and victims from an Indonesian plane that crashed last weekend in the Java Sea with 62 people on board.
Quiet New Year gives breathing room after UK-EU Brexit split
January 01, 2021 - 8:55 AM

LONDON - A steady trickle of trucks rolled off ferries and trains on both sides of the English Channel on Friday, a quiet New Year’s Day after a seismic overnight shift in relations between the European Union and Britain.
Ex-Trump aide Bannon pleads not guilty in border wall scheme
August 20, 2020 - 6:10 PM

NEW YORK - President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was pulled from a luxury yacht and arrested Thursday on allegations that he and three associates ripped off donors trying to fund a southern border wall, making him the latest in a long list of Trump allies to be charged with a crime.
Enbridge reopens underwater section of Line 5 pipeline after inspection
June 20, 2020 - 3:26 PM

Alberta-based Enbridge says it has reopened a branch of pipeline beneath the water separating two Great Lakes after an inspection revealed no damage, but another parallel branch of the line remains closed due to shifting observed in its anchor assembly.
'They're coming:' Flying cars may appear in urban skies by 2023
December 16, 2018 - 9:23 AM

The flying cars depicted in science fiction classics such as "Blade Runner" and "The Fifth Element" have long been seen as flights of fancy, but their arrival is closer than you think.
Where are the drones? Amazon's customers are still waiting
December 03, 2018 - 9:52 AM

Jeff Bezos boldly predicted five years ago that drones would be carrying Amazon packages to people's doorsteps by now.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo

Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis — a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Manitobans to have the same

Tranquille developer blames province after multiple ALC denials
The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site. Each time Ignition Developments goes to the commission, i

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What we know about the Baltimore bridge collapse

UN agency says 'famine is imminent' in northern Gaza, which Israel has largely isolated for months

Texas keeping most truck inspections despite border gridlock

Limo operator avoids prison time in crash that killed 20

Indonesian divers find parts of crashed plane's black box

Quiet New Year gives breathing room after UK-EU Brexit split

Ex-Trump aide Bannon pleads not guilty in border wall scheme

Enbridge reopens underwater section of Line 5 pipeline after inspection

'They're coming:' Flying cars may appear in urban skies by 2023

Where are the drones? Amazon's customers are still waiting

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