Month: August 2022

The fire danger level will increase to extreme in Jackson and Josephine counties on Tuesday. The change affects Jackson and Josephine counties The Oregon Department of Forestry is raising the fire danger level to extreme for Jackson and Josephine counties as of 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. ODF said dry vegetation, hot weather, storms and numerous fires in the region caused the fire danger to move from high to extreme. Under extreme fire danger conditions, new regulations affecting 1.8 million acres of state, private, county, city and federal lands in the Bureau of Land Management’s Southwest District are taking effect of ODF…

Anna Jones in an undated family photo GoFundMe Carrollton, Ga. – A Georgia college instructor has been charged with killing an 18-year-old student who was shot while sitting in a car. The Carrollton Police Department said in a news release that Richard Sigman, 47, is charged with murder and aggravated assault in the shooting death of Anna Jones, 18. Police said they believe Jones was killed when Sigman shot a parked car after an argument with a man at a pizzeria. The shooting happened shortly after midnight on Saturday. Police said a man told security that Sigman had threatened to…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi began a tour of Asia on Monday that has been shrouded in secrecy following escalating tensions with China over Taiwan. Uncertain whether Pelosi will visit the island, she stopped first in Singapore, where Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong urged her in a meeting to strive for “stable” ties with Beijing. His itinerary also includes Malaysia, South Korea and Japan, but a possible visit to Taiwan has dominated attention in the run-up. Reports of a plan to visit the island have angered Beijing and provoked unrest in the White Housewith President Biden trying to lower the temperature…

The cancellation is a major blow to the city of Atlanta’s tourism trade and the city’s mystique as a music mecca. Other annual music festivals that come to Atlanta each year include the rock-oriented Shaky Knees, which was in Central Park in May; the hip-hop/R&B One MusicFest in Central Park in October; and the eclectic Sweetwater 420 Fest in the spring at Centennial Olympic Park. Music Midtown, which originally ran from 1994 to 2005 at various Atlanta locations, returned in 2011 to Piedmont Park, where over the years it has attracted big-name artists such as Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Coldplay,…

Flames from the McKinney Fire burn beyond firefighters on the Klamath National Forest Sunday. [AP photo] Firefighters found two bodies Sunday morning inside a vehicle that was burned in the path of the McKinney Fire, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office reported Monday morning. The vehicle, found around 9:57 a.m., was located in a residential driveway along Doggett Creek Road, which is off Highway 96, west of the community of Klamath River, California. The identities of the deceased have not been released pending notification of next of kin. Early Monday morning two people were arrested in the McKinney Fire evacuation zone…