Chances of white Christmas melt
A white Christmas seems to be slowly morphing from a reliable reality to a dream of snowy holidays past for large swaths of the United States in recent decades. Analysis of 40 years of Dec.
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Ransomware persists, though on smaller scale
WASHINGTON – In the months since President Joe Biden warned Russia’s Vladimir Putin that he needed to crack down on ransomware gangs in his country, there hasn’t been a massive attack like the one last May that resulted in gasoline shortages. But that’s small comfort to Ken Trzaska.
WHO: Omicron found in 89 nations
VIENNA – The omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in 89 countries, and COVID-19 cases involving the variant are doubling every 1.5 to 3 days in places with community transmission and not just infections acquired abroad, the World Health Organization said Saturday.
Newsom ups efforts to fight retail thefts
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Stung by recent headline-grabbing smash-and-grab robberies, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday said he will seek more than $300 million in state funding over three years to boost law enforcement efforts to combat retail theft.
Gas explosion in sewer kills 12 in Pakistan
KARACHI, Pakistan – A powerful gas explosion in a sewage system in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, killed at least 12 people and injured 11 others Saturday, police and a health official said. Police spokesman Sohail Jokhio said the blast was apparently caused when something ignited gas that had accumulated in the sewer beneath a local bank building in the Shershah neighborhood of the port city.
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Police sued over April custody death of California man OAKLAND, Calif. – The family of a California man who died after police held him down filed a wrongful death lawsuit Friday, contending officers asphyxiated him during a confrontation.
Veterans remembered at Christmas
Christmas comes early for Janice Koshiol. That’s because for the fourth year she remembers veterans, long-term care residents and those who are homebound in Hays with a Christmas bag.
Kansas reindeer are ‘in training’ to help Santa in Towanda
TOWANDA — Unless they have some magic dust from Santa, reindeers cannot fly. But Betty Corbin, one of the owners of Fulton Valley Farms in Towanda, the only reindeer farm in Kansas open to the public, tells her young visitors the farm’s reindeer are in training to fly.
Wind and Fire
Ellis County Fire Department fire chief Darin Myers said Thursday morning that blazes fueled by Wednesday’s wind storm have destroyed at least five homes in the county. In addition, several more structures burned, increasing significantly the damage.
Earthquakes hit Kansas on Tuesday and Wednesday
In a span of less than 24 hours, those in Saline County felt the ground tremble four times due to earthquakes. The first happened on Tuesday afternoon just after 4 p.m.