Advocates who have been tracking the city’s response to traffic fatalities aren’t so sure. by Taylor Griggs Nearly 10 years ago, the city of Portland first committed to a Vision Zero plan, setting a goal to eliminate all traffic crash fatalities and serious injuries on Portland’s streets by 2025. That year, the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) reported 35 traffic crash deaths in Portland. City officials said at the time...
Edward Crowley stabbed Diego Pineiro-Villar, 12, around 30 times in March 2000, in a case that shocked the nation and shone a spotlight on failings in the justice system even 20 years ago.
O.J. Simpson's death certificate released this week confirms he died of prostate cancer at his home in Las Vegas, his attorney told The Times. Attorney Malcolm LaVergne said on Saturday the Clark County, Nev.-issued death certificate “just confirms what I think most people widely suspected anyway — it was prostate cancer. No other causes listed.” Simpson's family previously said on the social media platform X that the 76-year-old had died of cancer April 10. Simpson, a former football star, was...
More than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have sought refuge in Rafah
Weather forecasters at the University of Pennsylvania predicted a record hurricane season for 2024 on Thursday, a “hyperactive” season that could threaten the Gulf Coast.
“This is an isolated incident, there is no threat to public safety,” the district attorney’s office wrote in a press release Saturday.
This is Severe Weather Preparedness week and this is the time of year we can start to get strong and even severe thunderstorms.
If one has ever wondered why most people switch off from other people’s reality, wonder no more. In Neil Postman’s book ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business’ he explains how we are distracted by nonsense, served up by the corporate media as entertainment. In “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” Neil […]
The IDF on Monday evening announced that two IDF reserve soldiers fell in battle in the central Gaza Strip earlier on Monday. The soldiers were identified as Master Sgt (res.) Ido Aviv, H’yd, 28, of Karmiel and Master Sgt (res.) Kalkidan Meharim, H’yd, 37, of Petach Tikva. Both soldiers were killed in an explosion amid […]
PHARR, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A child is dead after being struck by a vehicle in Pharr, police said. On Friday at around 7:30 p.m., Pharr Police responded to the 700 block of E Eller St in reference to an auto-pedestrian accident involving a boy on a bike. Preliminary investigation revealed a male driver was backing []
Lujayn The extraordinary story of a 14-year-old, her mother, and what happened when the Israeli military came to destroy their house.