A 15-year-old Montana girl who escaped from a mental health hospital has died after being struck by a pickup truck on a nearby interstate highway, police say. Kayla Neal, of Missoula, was walking on the southbound lanes of I-15 around 2 p.m. Monday in Helena when she was hit by a 56-year-old woman driving a Dodge truck, police there told KURL-TV. Minutes before, she had run Read More…
Rep. Greg Gianforte said he has gotten language included in the new defense bill that calls on the Secretary of the Air Force to consider improvements at existing facilities, such as fixing the runway at Malmstrom Air Force Base, rather than build new ones. “Malmstrom Air Force Base is home to the 341st Missile Wing which Read More…
HARLOWTON, Mont. — Bridger Brewing, Montana Space Grant Consortium at Montana State University and Bozeman-based Crooked Yard Hops have partnered on a project that sent beer ingredients into space. The retrieved ingredients were then used to brew a commemorative beer celebrating the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. While other breweries are Read More…
The month of June was the deadliest on Montana roadways in a decade. With the alarming increase in crashes, the Montana Department of Transportation is urging travelers to drive safely this summer. Memorial Day to Labor Day is known as the “100 Deadliest Days of Summer” due to the increased traffic deaths nationwide. At other Read More…
Artists withdraw from NYC museum show over tear gas link Seven artists have asked New York’s Whitney Museum to remove their work from its biennial showcase of American art over a museum board member’s ties to the sale of law-enforcement supplies including… Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Blasts Trump, Says His Immigration Policy Is ‘About Ethnicity And Racism’ Read More…
British Airways on Friday suspended for one week all scheduled flights to Cairo. The airway said the cancellations are due to a security precaution, but did not elaborate on the concerns. According to The Guardian, the announcement came as a surprise, told to passengers about to board a British Airways flight. In a statement, the Read More…
× Stepson of slain KKK leader sentenced to 59 years for his roll in the murder FARMINGTON, Mo. — The stepson of a slain Missouri Ku Klux Klan leader has been sentenced to a total 59 years in prison for his role in the murder. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Paul Jinkerson Jr. was sentenced Friday. A Read More…
Related Story: Headspace is ‘easy for politicians’, but failing Australia’s youth, experts say Kellie Hatcher wrote her first suicide note at age 12. Key points:Several young people died on Sydney’s northern beaches last year, but local community groups reject suggestions of a suicide “crisis”The area’s suicide rate peaked in 2015 but has since been steadily Read More…
Young boy and girl at school lunch table smiling to camera NBC affiliate WBRE reported that the Wyoming Valley West School District in Pennsylvania is cracking down on parents who have failed to pay their child’s delinquent school lunch accounts. A letter signed by the district’s federal programs director, Joseph Muth, was sent to parents on Read More…
[Screenshot from CampusReform, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj9IxVlLRl0] Sometimes people hate what Trump says…until they find out Obama said it. Same goes for does and did — “kids in cages,” anyone? Following the President’s recent plan to deport specific illegal immigrants who’ve refused their court order to go home voluntarily, Campus Reform’s Cabot Phillips took a trip to Georgetown University Read More…
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Dr. Drew Pinsky, a California-based physician who now hosts a talk radio show, correctly predicted the current typhus outbreak in Los Angeles about 18 months ago. Now he is sounding the alarm about a potential outbreak of the bubonic plague in the Los Angeles area, saying that unless conditions change quickly and drastically, Southern California Read More…
Three significant anniversaries passed this week. Only two have truly been noted. First, of course, is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing on Saturday, July 20. The second was the 20th anniversary of the deaths of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette in a small plane Kennedy Read More…
James Cameron, Opinion contributor Published 3:15 a.m. ET July 20, 2019 | Updated 10:51 a.m. ET July 20, 2019 CLOSE The Space Race of the 1960s brought huge investment in space exploration. Today, we must explore and protect Earth’s final frontier, its oceans. Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took the first steps off Read More…
Dear Bill de Blasio, Everyone knows you’re a terrible mayor — maybe the worst in the past 100 years. But can’t you at least pretend that you love us? Like, by showing your face when we’re scared or in need of solace? There’s a low-cost way to make people ignore your dereliction and laziness: Just Read More…
CLOSE From Apollo 11, to Trump tweets, to the Electoral College, readers sound off on recent headlines. US space missions benefit everyone Letter to the editor: The awe of spacecraft launches filled minds with wonder and endless possibilities. Educators, politicians, corporations and others must work to stimulate young minds and to reignite excitement about space Read More…
WASHINGTON, July 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX now is targeting 6:24 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 24, for the launch of its 18th resupply mission to the International Space Station. Live coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency’s website with prelaunch events Tuesday, July 23. The company’s Dragon spacecraft will deliver supplies Read More…
WASHINGTON, July 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Vice President Mike Pence visited and gave remarks in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the agency’s Apollo 11 Moon landing and announce to America the completion of NASA’s Orion crew capsule for Read More…
The ceremony took place Friday, July 19, just three days shy of the 71st U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship, being held at SentryWorld from July 22–27. The architect? None other than world renown golf course designer Robert Trent Jones Jr., who turns 80 during the event. Coincidentally, Jones Jr.’s also the architect of the course that Read More…
Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 EvoNo less than five different drivers topped the GTD time sheets in this morning’s 15-minute qualifying session, with Hindman finally claiming the pole on his eighth lap. It is the third pole of the season for the New Jersey native, who claims Lime Rock as his “home” track, following Read More…