Man dies in apparent drowning after canoe capsizes on lake in Halifax Police are investigating the suspected drowning of a man after the canoe he was in capsized on East Lake in Halifax, officials said. 05/12/2024 - 10:28 am | View Link
Family grieves loss of mother who tried saving daughter from drowning in San Joaquin River A family is without a mother this Mother's Day weekend. The three-day-long search for Brenda Duran's body ended Saturday in Newman in the San Joaquin River. 05/11/2024 - 3:34 pm | View Link
Drowning victim recovered Friday A Castleberry man’s body was recovered from Conecuh River early Friday by divers, according to Escambia County Sheriff Heath Jackson. The victim was identified as Rickey Robinson of Castleberry. 05/7/2024 - 2:53 am | View Link
Man, 23, dies in apparent drowning on Jersey Shore beach First-responders treated the man at the scene and transported him to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, where he was pronounced dead, according to police. The man’s name was withheld ... 05/6/2024 - 1:07 am | View Link
Dive teams recover drowning victim from Laguna Lake A dive team with the Orange County Sheriff's Department responded and conducted a search, recovering the victim. Police said foul play was not suspected. According to police, swimming is prohibited at ... 05/5/2024 - 10:48 am | View Link
When Lawrence Gasman was looking for a PhD topic back in the 1970s, computing labs were already abuzz with smart people proposing clever studies in artificial intelligence. “But the problem was we had nothing to run them on,” he says. “The processors needed just didn’t exist.”
It took half a century for computing power to catch up with AI’s potential.
PADANG, Indonesia — Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano’s slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island triggered flash floods that killed at least 37 people and more than a dozen others were missing, officials said Sunday.
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Monsoon rains and a major mudslide from a cold lava flow on Mount Marapi caused a river to breach its banks and tear through mountainside villages in four districts in West Sumatra province just before midnight on Saturday.
LOS ANGELES — Roger Corman, the “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as Little Shop of Horrors and Attack of the Crab Monsters and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98.
Corman died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, California, according to a statement released Saturday by his wife and daughters.
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“He was generous, open-hearted and kind to all those who knew him,” the statement said.
Enough is enough.
That’s the message from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia to the University of Chicago as U. S. colleges took a hard line against student protesters, resorting to arrests, suspensions and threats of expulsion to subdue unrest sparked by the Israel-Hamas war.
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Graduation season is underway and families are descending on campuses for the festivities, raising the stakes for administrators seeking to ensure public safety.
Vladimir Putin replaced his long-serving defense minister with a trained economist in an unexpected change of guard that signals the focus on growing the Russian war economy more than two years after the invasion of Ukraine.
Putin put forward his former economy aide and First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov, 65, to take over from Sergei Shoigu, 68, who was given a gentle demotion and put in charge of the security council.
Pittsburgh’s Steel Curtain. Dallas’ Doomsday Defense. Chicago’s Monsters of the Midway. L. A.’s Fearsome Foursome.
Make way for Colorado’s Purple Rally Killers.
On a Sunday afternoon when elite defense was paramount, the Rockies delivered a 3-1 victory to complete a three-game sweep of the defending World Series champion Rangers at Coors Field.