Andrew A Smith / Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Monday marks the beginning of what New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo says will be a "summer of hell" at the largest train station in the country.Between today and the beginning of September, Amtrak will carry out major repairs on tracks and signals at Penn Station in New York City. Amtrak decided renovations needed to be expedited after multiple derailments this year caused […]
ABC News(THERESA, N.Y.) -- An Army infantryman has been accused of killing a New York State Trooper and his own wife in Theresa, New York, on Sunday night, following a domestic incident.The suspect has been identified by police as 32-year-old Staff Sergeant Justin Dean Walters, an active duty Army infantryman serving since 2007, who was stationed at Fort Drum. He completed two tours in Afghanistan.The trooper, identified by police as […]
Jean-Christophe Labarre / EyeEm / Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- While the U.S. and Russian presidents were amicably chatting in Hamburg last week, their governments have been sending less friendly signals about power grids.The Washington Post reported in June that President Obama had issued orders to prepare options for an attack on the Russian electric power grid in response to Russian manipulation of the U.S. presidential election, but it is unlikely […]
ABC News(BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada) -- Passengers on a whale-watching tour in British Columbia, Canada, got an unexpected surprise when they saw a black bear swimming alongside their boat.The tourists were near Phillips Arm, off the southern coast of British Columbia, on July 1 when the bear popped up in the water.As seen in the video posted on Facebook, the bear's nose is barely peeking over the water's surface as it […]
ABC News(DENVER) -- A teen staffer at camp in Colorado said he was woken up on Sunday morning by the jaws of a bear.The staffer, identified only as Dylan, told ABC affiliate KMGH-TV in Denver, he heard "crunching" sounds and that the bear tried to pull him out of his sleeping bag."The crunching noise, I guess, was the teeth scraping against the skull as it dug in," Dylan said, "When […]
Even though most of us have electronic maps on our smart phones, Iowans continue picking up and using the trusty ole’ paper state road map you have to unfold. Mark Hansen, a transportation planner at the Iowa Department of Transportation, says the 2017-2018 edition of the Iowa map is now available and it features about […]Powered by WPeMatico
A Des Moines man is accused of running an illegal cockfighting operation on the east side of the city. Animal Rescue League of Iowa executive director, Tom Colvin, says they helped police remove 85 hens and roosters from the property. Colvin says there were signs that cockfighting was taking place. “One of the things that […]Powered by WPeMatico
Republican Senator Joni Ernst is willing to bring Democrats into the negotiations on health care, although Ernst concedes many of her GOP colleagues are opposed to it. “I think you’d lose a lot of support from the Republican Conference because they really want their ideas addressed before they move on to, maybe, the Democratic Conference, […]Powered by WPeMatico
Winnebago and Hancock Counties in north-central Iowa were hit hard by storms Sunday evening — and farmers checking the crops this morning found lots of damage in the fields. Significant damage was done in a swath as large as five miles wide and 15 to 20 miles long in Klemme. Winnebago and Hancock County Emergency […]Powered by WPeMatico
