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A year after Fiona, a traumatized Newfoundland town backs away from the sea

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:50:10 GMT

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — One year after a wave driven by post-tropical storm Fiona slammed into the back of her house and twisted it like a corkscrew, Lori Dicks now lives up on a hill, far from the water.She still has a view of the ocean, but she’s far enough away that there’s no chance it will swell up and swallow her entire life again like it did on the morning of Sept. 24, 2022, in Port aux Basques, N.L.“I still think about it all the time. So much change has happened for us, for everyone. Even the whole town I find is affected, even the landscape has changed,” she said in a recent interview from her new home across the province in Burin Bay Arm, N.L. “On our side of the street where all our homes were, it’s completely gone. All of our homes are torn down now.”Fiona destroyed about 100 homes that morning in southwestern Newfoundland, and a 73-year-old woman died when she was swept out to sea. Houses that had belonged to families for gene...

Wildfires: Town of Clova busy as ever after Quebec premier said it was burning down

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:50:10 GMT

MONTREAL — Dominic Vincent’s inn and restaurant in Clova, Que., is fully booked these days, only months after Premier François Legault announced the town of 36 residents would burn to the ground during the unprecedented summer wildfire season. Far from gone, the hamlet within the city of La Tuque, around 325 kilometres northwest of Montreal, is bustling — filled with out-of-town forestry workers helping to harvest some of the burned wood as quickly as possible before it deteriorates from dryness and insects. “There’s three years’ worth of harvesting, and a year to do it, so it’s a bit of a race,” Vincent said in a phone interview. “We have a lot of forestry workers here that we normally wouldn’t have at this time of the season,” he said, adding that rental properties are “full, full, full.”In early June, however, it was another story. As more than 150 forest fires raged across the province, most of the community’s residents had to evacuate due to the approaching flames.The intensity...

Canada to get rare asteroid sample after OSIRIS-REx drops cargo to Earth on Sunday

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:50:10 GMT

MONTREAL — Seven years after it blasted into space to snag a sample of an asteroid, a spacecraft is set to deliver its rare cargo on Sunday — and Canada is getting a piece of the interstellar bounty.The NASA-led mission launched OSIRIS-REx into space in 2016 to collect from the surface of an asteroid material that scientists hope will offer them insight into the formation of the solar system. The spacecraft began orbiting the asteroid — called Bennu — in 2018 and grabbed a sample in 2020. It started its return trip to Earth in 2021, and a capsule with the rocks and space dust is expected to land in the Utah desert on Sunday, before the spacecraft continues on a mission to another asteroid.Canada contributed a laser altimeter to the mission — a device that measures altitude and distance — that has allowed Bennu to become the “most precisely surveyed body in our solar system,” says Cameron Dickinson, a staff engineer at Canadian space company MDA Ltd., which designed the C...

Man in serious condition after drive-by shooting in West Town

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:50:10 GMT

CHICAGO — A man is in serious condition after a drive-by shooting in Chicago's West Town neighborhood overnight, according to police.The shooting happened around 2 a.m. in the 900 block of North Fairfield Avenue. 15-year-old critical after driver crashes stolen Kia into John Deere tractor in Joliet According to information from the Chicago Police Department, the man was walking on the sidewalk when someone in a car fired shots.The man had gunshot wounds to the abdomen and was taken to Stroger Hospital.No one has been arrested yet in connection with the shooting and Area Three detectives are still investigating.Anyone with information should call police.

1 dead in southeastern Travis County following pedestrian crash

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:50:10 GMT

TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — One person died Saturday evening after a vehicle struck a pedestrian in southeastern Travis County, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.Officials responded to the incident at 10:48 p.m. near the 4500-6000 block of South State Highway 45.ATCEMS medics at the scene obtained a “deceased on scene pronouncement” for an adult.EMS officials were no longer at the scene as of 10:51 p.m.

Austin-Travis County EMS swears in 30 new cadets

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:50:10 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin-Travis County EMS celebrated the graduation of 30 new cadets Friday. ATCEMS said the class includes 30 cadets. Of those, 22 are medic-field cadets and eight are lateral clinical specialists. "Academy graduation is a huge milestone for our Cadets. It marks the completion of the first major step as they embark on their careers caring for our community," ATCEMS Assistant Chief Heather Phillips said in a release.In 2022, ATECMS swore in 15 field cadets and one communications cadet.

Fatal shooting in west St. Louis metro area

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:50:10 GMT

ST. LOUIS COUNTY -- A man is dead after a shooting in the Fountain Park neighborhood. It happened just after 11:30 p.m. last night on Kings Highway off Kensington, which is approximately a mile and a half north of the Central West End. Police report that the victim was shot in the head and arm, resulting in his death at the scene. Homicide detectives with the Saint Louis Metropolitan Police are currently investigating. If you have any information, as always, please call Crime Stoppers at 1-866-371-TIPS. 

Avalanche Journal: Jonathan Drouin, Valeri Nichushkin and others with the most to prove during training camp

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:50:10 GMT

For most of the top Stanley Cup contenders, there could be a sense right now of wanting to fast forward to the start of the regular season, or even later in the NHL calendar.Just get to the games that matter. Every one between now and then is just an opportunity for injury.That sentiment might feel true for some of the most established players on the Avalanche, but there are plenty who need this training camp on some level. It could be to fight for a roster spot, compete for a role in the lineup, move up in the queue for an in-season call-up or simply to give the organization a little less collective stress when the regular season commences Oct. 11 in Los Angeles.If everyone was healthy, there might only be one spot in the lineup and two to four places on the opening-night roster up for grabs, depending on how many extras the club can keep within the constraints of the salary cap. Everyone is not healthy, however, and more likely than not won’t be at various points in the season. Co...

Broncos Journal: OLBs must show they can stop run consistently, or they’ll keep getting picked on

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:50:10 GMT

One play before Sam Howell threw a 30-yard touchdown to Terry McLaurin early in the third quarter of Washington’s Week 2 win over Denver, he handed the ball to Brian Robinson, who started right and then cut back to the left for 11 yards.Outside linebacker Nik Bonitto wasn’t able to squeeze down the line of scrimmage and he was visibly frustrated after Robinson finished off the first-down run, clapping his hands together.For much of the remainder of the 35-33 Commanders win, Washington and offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy went back after Bonitto’s side of the defense when he was in the game.According to The Post’s tally, Washington ran the ball eight more times with Bonitto in the game and six of them went in his direction. They gained 60 yards and a touchdown and also hit a 36-yard screen behind him as he rushed up the field out of control and fell into the left tackle.Of course, one player doesn’t stop the run by himself. Robinson ran directly off the left tackle at Bonitt...

Walters: Politicians point fingers as homelessness crisis persists

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:50:10 GMT

Many political promises have been made, many billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent and many programs have been launched, but the state’s homelessness crisis continues to worsen and Californians’ tolerance has worn thin.A few months ago, the Public Policy Institute of California took the public’s temperature on the issue and found that overwhelming majorities of the state’s adults want something done, pronto. It’s one of the few major issues that bridges the state’s otherwise wide partisan divide.“Things have shifted, and everybody’s jobs are on the damn line, and they should be,” Gov. Gavin Newsom told a Dreamforce conference in San Francisco last week. “We’re only interested in real results, and that’s our commitment to all of you.”Underscoring the situation’s fraught politics, Newsom has denounced a federal magistrate who blocked San Francisco’s plans to clean up squalid encampments, pledged that the state will intervene in the case and expressed hop...