State lawmakers are taking very different approaches to public safety following high-profile shootings. Maine's Democratic-led Legislature gave final approval to new restrictions on guns before adjourning Thursday. The move comes six months after a deadly mass shooting in Lewiston. Iowa's Republican-led Legislature meanwhile approved allowing teachers and staff who get firearms safety training to carry guns on school property. That comes three months after a fatal shooting at an Iowa school....
ISHPEMING, Mich. — Clint Jones, president of the family-owned Mineral Range Railroad based in Ishpeming, died of health complications at Marquette General Hospital in Marquette, Mich., on April 19, 2024. He was 79. Son Chris Jones told Trains News Wire in a phone interview that he and his brother Pete will continue business as usual []Read More
A team of physicists from several institutions across the U.S. working with a colleague from China, at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, in San Diego, California, has devised a way to overcome two key hurdles standing in the way of using fusion as a general power source.
Distributed Power 101 Modern railroads are one of the most efficient modes of transporting freight across long distances. Occasionally in railroad freight service, the need will arise for multiple locomotives to efficiently transport freight. But where in this hypothetical freight train should the locomotives be placed? Distributed Power (DP) is an operating practice where locomotives []Read More
Mosborough ward is at the south-east edge of the city, part of the Sheffield Townships on the borders of North East Derbyshire. The ward, home to Crystal Peaks shopping centre, also encompasses the suburbs of Mosborough, Halfway, Westfield, Waterthorpe and Holbrook. The council’s two main parties, Labour and the LibDems, are battling it out in the south-east of Sheffield and currently, the ward has two Labour councillors and one LibDem. Labour candidate Tony Downing said: “I’ve been honoured to...
Israeli media said that IOF troops were injured in a Palestinian resistance
Four of the animals who broke loose have now been named: Vida, Trojan, Quaker and Tennyson.
Multiple women who work as massage therapists at two Chesterfield businesses have been charged with keeping/residing in a bawdy place, among other charges after an undercover operation by police.
The leader of Yemen's Houthis, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, claims the group has
Asio director general Mike Burgess had referred to expulsion of foreign operatives in 2021 speech but did not name country behind threat Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian government has vowed to guard against foreign interference after reports that two Indian intelligence officers were forced to leave the country in 2020.Australia’s domestic intelligence agency, Asio, has previously...
Crews on Monday morning shut down a railroad crossing along a busy section of Route 120 in Grayslake as they begin a two-week-long railroad repair project. The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) said the project is at Route 120, also known as Belvidere Road, just west of Route 83 in Grayslake. The project by the […]
Connect Central Oregon used two drones and a camera on the ground to capture the two-section blast Tuesday night on Highway 97's new Bend North Corridor route, which may be the last in a weekly series that lasted over a month.