It’s not made of gold, but a yellow lobster pulled from Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay is very rare.Lobsterman Denny Ingram says he found the lobster in one of his pots the bay’s East Passage last week. It is golden on the top and bright yellow on both sides.Experts say the genetic feature is very rare, [...]
“Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border 2: Drugs, Guns, and 850 Illegal Aliens” is the Center for Immigration Studies’ second web-based film on the impact of illegal alien activity in Arizona. The Center’s first video on the subject, “Hidden Cameras on the Arizona Border: Coyotes, Bears, and Trails,” has received over 50,000 views to date. [...]
A C-17 military cargo plane with four aboard crashed and burned Wednesday night at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska.The Air Force confirmed that the C-17 was assigned to Elmendorf’s 3rd Wing and crashed at about 6:14 p.m. local time.
College students in Madison, Limestone, Morgan and Lawrence counties are more likely to go to Calhoun Community College than anywhere else.Calhoun attracts a higher percentage of students in those four counties than any other institution in the state.
The daughter of a candidate running for District 21 Judge in Oklahoma has launched a “Don’t Vote for my Dad” campaign.A quarter-page political ad bought in the Norman Transcript tells voters why they shouldn’t vote for a judicial candidate.
From the National Geographic Blog Said “Wes C. Skiles, a freelance photographer for National Geographic Magazine, died Wednesday while filming underwater in the ocean off Florida.” “The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the incident, which occurred following the conclusion of a scientific research expedition related to marine life off the east coast of [...]
The Argentine Senate voted early on Thursday morning to pass the first national gay marriage law in Latin America by a vote of 33 for to 27 against with 3 abstentions. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who is on a state visit to Beijing, had strongly advocated for the measure. On Sunday, the Catholic Church [...]
TORONTO — An explosion at a Toronto power facility knocked out power in Canada’s largest metropolis, and briefly disrupted a state dinner for Queen Elizabeth II. Hydro One, the power company for Canada’s most populous province of Ontario, said the blackout hit at 4:42 pm local time (2042 GMT), affecting the city’s subway, several commuter [...]
Rodolfo Torre Cantu, a gubernatorial candidate for the major Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) party, was killed by gunmen on Monday morning, police said. Local officials said an armed group, believed to be drug hitmen, attacked Cantu approximately 9 kilometers (5.5 miles) from the Soto la Marina highway as he was on his way to an [...]