An 11-year-old reported missing in Iowa was found Monday morning around 360 miles away at an Indiana gas station, police said. Indiana State Police were contacted at 2 a.m. by a detective from the Iowa City Police Department concerning a child abduction that happened in their city on Sunday, according to a department news release….
National Weather Service meteorologists confirmed Friday that Hurricane Milton spawned at least 41 tornadoes, but the final total could be even higher once damage surveys are completed. For more than a week, meteorologists with three weather service regions in Florida have been out in the field, surveying damage from the dozens of powerful tornadoes that…
U.S. vice presidential candidate JD Vance is weighing in on one of Cincinnati residents’ recent troubles: Graeter’s rumored Skyline Chili Ice Cream. Concerns over the eyebrow-raising flavor escalated after Kroger’s website claimed that the Cincinnati-based ice cream chain Graeter’s and restaurant chain Skyline Chili appeared to have collaborated to create a “daring fusion of flavors.” Per…
The second Monday of October marks Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day in the United States. In 2022, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation on Indigenous Peoples Day, but Columbus Day is still celebrated as a federal holiday. Research from Pew Research in 2023 shows the public, paid holiday is still commemorated as Columbus Day…
With Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day both falling on Monday, will any businesses or services be open on the holiday? President Franklin Delano Roosevelt designated it as a national holiday in 1934, according to the Library of Congress. Now a federal holiday, the second Monday of October has been celebrated as Columbus Day since…
Monday is becoming increasingly known as Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a commemoration of Native American history and culture. While the second Monday in October has historically been celebrated as Columbus Day and is still federally recognized as such, many have pushed for moving away from the holiday to acknowledge the atrocities Columbus committed against people living…
Cleanup from Hurricane Milton’s destruction was slow going Saturday, with roads in some counties still impassable, resources scarce for some evacuees making their way back home and power only gradually being restored. Milton hit Florida as a Category 3 hurricane Wednesday evening and barreled east across the state, wreaking havoc before spinning out into the…
TAMPA, Fla. − Hurricane Milton howled across the Florida Panhandle on Thursday, tearing a path of destruction from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic as it flooded neighborhoods, destroyed homes, tore the roof off a major sports venue and toppled a massive crane into an office building. In downtown Tampa early Thursday, fierce winds…
SpaceX founder Elon Musk appeared as a special guest at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Donning a black “Make America Great Again” hat, the billionaire joined the former president on stage and started jumping near the podium to amp up the crowd. The rally was held at Butler Farm Show,…
BURNSVILLE, North Carolina ‒ The ongoing loss of cell phone service in Hurricane Helene-impacted areas raises questions for survivors about safety, missed emergency warnings and the inability to reassure far-flung friends and family. Helene knocked out power to wide swaths of the South with both high winds and flooding. The destruction also destroyed cell phone…