The Story Of How The Giant ‘Terror Skink’ Was Presumed Extinct, Then Rediscovered Just because a species is thought to be extinct doesn’t mean all hope is lost. Boucort’s terrific skink, also known as the terror skink (pictured here), is one such example. 05/3/2024 - 1:30 am | View Link
Paradise town gears up for final Early Warning Siren tower tests this week TOP says that these will be the final tests being conducted on the EWS towers to ensure effectiveness and reliability of the sirens. After these final tests and the configuration phase are finished, ... 05/1/2024 - 12:09 pm | View Link
‘Big top’ entertainers perform in Taber Park Feats of daring, dexterity and gravity-defying acts abounded under the Lewis and Clark Circus “big top” last week in Urbanna. 05/1/2024 - 9:41 am | View Link
Oakland ‘Ghost Town’ gang members fined $1M for burglarizing several businesses Four East Bay residents, all of whom were part of an Oakland “Ghost Town” street gang, were arrested and fined $1 million total for burglarizing several businesses in 2022, U.S. District ... 04/30/2024 - 3:26 pm | View Link
'Tool Town' is the moniker for this town in Central Massachusetts Athol once hosted a number of tool companies, but today, just one looms over Tool Town – Starrett Tools, makers of precision measuring instruments. 04/29/2024 - 4:20 pm | View Link
“The presidential election may come down to a city in the Midwestern prairie that is home to Warren Buffett — a prospect that is raising hopes among some Democrats that the once-prolific political donor will come off the sidelines to try to power President Joe Biden to reelection,” Bloomberg reports.
“Back in 2016, the Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
“The U. S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine, with the massive outlay being repaid with the windfall profits from sovereign Russian assets that have been frozen – and are accruing interest — mostly in Europe,” Bloomberg reports.
“Republicans have launched more than 30 investigations into the State Department since taking power in 2023, an unusually high number that is fueling partisan tensions,” Politico reports.
“Democratic lawmakers and State Department officials say this particular chapter of the growing partisan rancor on Capitol Hill is affecting U. S. foreign policy: It distracts U.
Nevada Independent: “The lawsuit alleges that the four-day period for mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received violates federal law because it does not conform to the Election Day deadline established by the federal government.”
Reproductive rights organizers in two states with near-total abortion bans, Missouri and South Dakota, submitted roughly double the signatures needed to allow ballot measures that would put abortion before voters.
In South Dakota, organizers have submitted 55,000 signatures in support of the ballot measure granting a limited right to abortion—far more than the 35,000 required.