A coastal city in Oregon issued evacuations after a fire erupted at a seafood wholesaler Sunday morning and there was concern the smoke contained ammonia. The City of Newport issued the order for a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) radius of a Pacific Seafood processing plant and set up a shelter at a local elementary school. City officials
ATLANTA — A 31-year-old Georgia man was charged Friday after he allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in downtown Atlanta. Inique Hinton, of Douglasville, Georgia, was charged with attempted arson of a federal building and depredation of government property, according to U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg. Security cameras
TOLEDO, Ohio — Officials in northeast Ohio said Friday that a chemical tank leak earlier in the week was caused by a chemical reaction resulting from an employee error and lifted all remaining evacuation orders. Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz said during a news conference that the venting of the tank that ruptured at MC Tank
CLINTON, Miss — Two people were killed when a fire tore through a Mississippi senior living center that was home to more than 100 residents, Clinton Mayor Will Purdie said Thursday. “It’s with a heavy heart that I share with you that two residents lost their lives in that fire,” Purdie said doing a news
New Guinea, the world’s second-largest island, harbors an extraordinary variety of plant life across more than a dozen distinct ecoregions, including seasonally dry savannas, tropical rainforests, and lowland swamp forests. But in September and October 2026, as drought gripped New Guinea (sometimes called Papua) amid a strong El Niño, fires scorched the island and smoke
CLINTON, Miss. — A fire broke out at a senior living facility in Mississippi on Wednesday evening, forcing residents to evacuate. There were no immediate reports of injuries at Brookdale Clinton, but authorities were not yet certain whether all the residents were accounted for. The “majority of the building is gone,” said Marlee Price-Cook, director
