Month: February 2020

Weekend mudslides and flooding have indefinitely shutdown access to Mount Rainier National Park. Roads leading to the park will remain closed until they can be cleared of water and debris and stabilized, officials with the Washington State Department of Transportation and National Park Service said. “We aren’t doing anything up there until we can get

For 30 years, it’s been illegal to own a pit bull in the city of Denver. But that could change after the city council voted to remove the ban. The Denver City Council passed a new code in a 7-4 vote Monday allowing owners to register their pit bull with the Denver Animal Protection (DAP)

An associate of the drug cartel once run by El Chapo was charged with participating in an international drug conspiracy in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, according to a press release from the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Ismael Quintero Arellanes, 49, also known as Fierro, was arrested in

A mountain lion was killed in the Santa Monica Mountains, becoming the first killed under the state’s depredation law, a National Park Service news release said Monday. A 4 to 5-year-old mountain lion named “P-56” lived in the western Santa Monica Mountains south of Highway 101, where a local property owner killed him on January

A series of reforms introduced in Georgia will now allow Puerto Ricans to transfer their driver’s licenses without having to take tests or meet requirements other US citizens wouldn’t have to meet, a human and civil rights group says. “The reforms being enacted will finally afford Puerto Ricans the same privileges as other U.S. Citizens

A soldier in the US Army could face 20 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday to distributing bomb making instructions, according to a press release from the US Attorney’s Office in Kansas. Jarrett William Smith, 24, distributed instructions for making explosives over social media while he was an active member of the military, a

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The first confirmed case of novel coronavirus has been found among hundreds of people who were evacuated from China to military bases around the United States, it was reported Monday. The adult and three other evacuees had been in hospital isolation after showing symptoms of the virus but on Sunday, federal

A deputy police chief in Burlington, Vermont, resigned Monday after she admitted to running two fake social media accounts where she criticized both citizens and city officials. Deputy Police Chief Jan Wright’s resignation will take effect February 21, according to a separation agreement between her and the department. She has worked with the department for