Explosion reported in NW Portland; 8 injured, including 3 firefighters
Updated with developments from 4 p.m. news conference A massive explosion, apparently ignited by a natural gas leak, ripped through a building Wednesday along the popular Northwest 23rd Avenue shopping...
View ArticleAir Force staff sergeant promotion list for August, 2015
The U.S. Air Force's list of airmen promoted to staff sergeant, as released on Aug. 20, 2015. Abadia Christopher Abarawa Emmanuel K Abbott Daniel Patr Abdullah Malizio J Abendroth Marie Ch Abesamis...
View ArticleChina blasts: hundreds injured by explosions – as it happened
Coverage as huge explosions rock the northern port city of Tianjin...
View ArticleStrong California quake rattles wine country, largest in Bay Area since 1989
NAPA, Calif. — The strongest earthquake in 25 years struck the heart of California’s wine country early Sunday, igniting gas-fed fires, damaging some of the region’s famed wineries and historic...
View ArticleStrong California quake shakes famed wine country
Click photo to enlarge Nina Quidit cleans up the Dollar Plus and Party Supplies Store in American Canyon Calif. after an earthquake on Sunday Aug. 24, 2014. Quidit and her husband were woken up in the...
View ArticleSWOSU Students Named to Honor Rolls (Southwestern Oklahoma State University)
(Source: Southwestern Oklahoma State University) A total of 1,321 students have been named to honor rolls at Southwestern Oklahoma State University for academic work during the 2016 spring semester on...
View ArticleNepal earthquake: rescue continues as death toll exceeds 2,000 - live updates
1.30am AEST16:30 — ABS-CBN News (@ABSCBNNews) April 25, 2015...
View ArticleSWOSU Students Named to Fall Semester Honor Rolls (Southwestern Oklahoma...
(Source: Southwestern Oklahoma State University) Honor rolls at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford and Sayre have been announced for the 2016 fall semester. An undergraduate student...
View ArticleWestern wildfires threatening homes and disrupting tourism
Firefighters braced Thursday for a fresh run by a wildfire that sent tourists fleeing from hotels and campgrounds in Montana's Glacier National Park, while a blaze threatening hundreds of homes in...
View ArticleThe Evolution Of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs And The Bad Boy Family Through...
May 20 2016, 2:35 AM ET Share this article: The launch of VIBE was the definitive introduction of the power of Hip-Hop and culture to move the crowd. Before the Internet, before email, before social...
View ArticleDown the Atomic River
Note: This story took more than five years to write. It recounts a two-day river trip that Joshua Frank and I made down the last free-flowing stretch of the mighty Columbia River through the irradiated...
View ArticleNumerous buildings uninhabitable after earthquake
NAPA, Calif. (AP) -- Officials in the city of Napa say 15 to 16 buildings are no longer inhabitable after Sunday's magnitude-6.0 earthquake, and there is only limited access to numerous other...
View ArticleApartment fire kills 2 despite 'very heroic' rescue efforts
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — At least two people died, despite "very heroic" rescue efforts, and dozens were injured after an explosion and large fire at an apartment complex in a Maryland suburb of...
View ArticleMan burned in blast making hash oil sues butane businesses
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) An Oregon medical marijuana patient who was badly burned in an explosion while he was legally using butane as a solvent to make hash oil is suing the makers and sellers of the...
View ArticleDozens hurt, several missing after DC-area apartment blast
SILVER SPRING, Md. — Dozens of people, including three firefighters, were injured after an explosion and large fire at an apartment complex in a Maryland suburb of Washington and searchers are looking...
View ArticleDubai skyscraper catches fire, though no one killed in blaze
Share PhotoReddit✉ This photo provided by Jose Vicente shows flames coming from a high rise tower in Dubai's marina district Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. The fire broke out early Saturday in the Torch...
View ArticleThe Latest: 9 bodies recovered from burned Oakland warehouse
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The Latest on a deadly fire in a converted warehouse in Oakland, California (all times local): 6:30 p.m. Authorities say nine bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of a...
View ArticleFire races up high-rise Dubai tower, but claims no lives
One of the world's tallest residential towers caught fire early Saturday in Dubai's Marina district, sending hundreds of residents pouring into the streets as bright yellow flames raged several stories...
View ArticleHillsborough real estate transactions for Jan. 30Hillsborough real estate...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 4:58pm APOLLO BEACH Related News/Archive 1236 Acappella Ln., to Cary B. Sappington & Ellen N. Sappington by Richard L. George & Vernita George, $599,000, 11-19-2014....
View ArticleWalnut Creek Explosion Injures Three, Destroys Four Apartments
Authorities said the blast occurred at approximately 10:20 a.m. on Saturday morning. Contra Costa Fire District Battalion Chief Jim Howard confirmed the explosion caused damage in a 200-foot radius...
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