New York schools could eliminate snow days
New York State Education Department is giving school districts the option to eliminate snow days.
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From heat to snow: Rocky Mountains see 60-degree plunge
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Summer came to an abrupt halt in parts of the Rocky Mountains on Tuesday as temperatures reaching into the 90s plunged about 60 degrees in less than 24 hours, with a powerful surge of cold air from Canada unleashing snow and damaging winds in several states. The roller coaster weather […]
Snowy, freezing winter predicted for much of US, Farmers’ Almanac says
The Farmers’ Almanac has released its extended forecast for the 2020-2021 winter season, and for those among us who are cold-adverse, the outlook looks grim.
Dismay as huge chunk of Greenland’s ice cap breaks off
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An enormous chunk of Greenland’s ice cap has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic, a development that scientists say is evidence of rapid climate change. The glacier section that broke off is 110 square kilometers (42.3 square miles). It came off of the fjord called Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, which is roughly 80 […]
Woman sentenced to jail time for attacking McDonald’s employees because she didn’t get a cookie
A judge sentenced a 24-year-old woman to 90 days in jail after she climbed through a McDonald’s drive thru window and attacked three employees because she did not get a cookie.
Restaurants hope to see changes to survive without outdoor dining
Restaurants are doing all they can to try to survive while only being able to have fifty percent capacity inside.
Primary results to be audited at randomly selected polling locations around CT
Secretary of the State Denise Merrill randomly selected several voting precincts to have primary results audited following the August 11 primary.
Man killed by polar bear on Norway’s Arctic Svalbard islands
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A polar bear attacked a camping site and killed a foreign national in the remote Svalbard Islands on Friday, authorities on an Arctic island said, adding the animal was killed. The man was rushed to the hospital in Longyearbyen where he was declared dead by doctors, Deputy Governor Soelvi Elvedah said. […]
Amid ashes, California governor fires away on climate change
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Newsom offered some of his most impassioned comments on climate change, denouncing the “ideological BS” of those who deny the danger and vowing Friday to accelerate the state’s already ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gases. Newsom spoke against a backdrop of ghost-like trees and ground covered in snow-like gray […]
‘It’s going horribly’: College towns fret about census count
PHOENIX (AP) — Betsy Landin was listed by her parents on the 2020 census as living at her family’s home in Phoenix when she really should have been counted in the college town of Tempe, where she studies finance at Arizona State University. Also missing from Tempe’s tally was Arizona State political science major Betzabel […]
