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    Gobi Wolf 2024 strengthens partnerships for disaster resilience

    CHOIBALSAN, Mongolia — Exercise Gobi Wolf 2024 culminated with resounding success during a Closing Ceremony held in Choibalsan, Mongolia, May 10, marking another significant stride in disaster preparedness and global collaboration.

  • Downtown Medford car vs. pedestrian accident under investigation

    MEDFORD, Ore. – Medford police are trying to determine who is at fault in a downtown car crash this week that sent one person to the hospital. The low speed crash at East 8th Sreet and South Central Avenue closed down the intersection Monday night after a car hit a pedestrian. Police say the driver […]

  • Stuck on Stupid, Biden and the Democrats Face Disaster in November

    “Let them eat cake,” Marie Antoinette once famously said, disdaining the immiseration of peasants in pre-revolutionary France. Joe Biden didn’t use those exact words last week during his interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, but his tone-deafness about the suffering of millions of Americans grappling with high food and gas prices and unaffordable rents was palpable. Burnett More

  • FEMA approves disaster funds for Bristol, Worcester County

    The funding is available to individuals who suffered losses during severe storms and flooding from Sept.11-13, 2023.

  • Norwegian startup trains AI to predict natural disasters

    Norwegian startup 7Analytics has secured €4mn to help predict the next big flood or landslide. The Bergen-based outfit trains machine learning algorithms on vast quantities of data on everything from weather to land use. The AI then learns to predict how natural disasters will unfold with metre-scale accuracy. Whereas the weather forecast tells you when a storm is approaching, 7Analytics will tell you exactly how the water from this storm will travel through your community. These...

  • 8 Dead And 40 Injured In Florida Bus Accident

    The Florida Highway Patrol says a bus carrying farmworkers in central Florida has overturned, killing eight people and injuring another 40 passengers.

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    Georgia man dies in Willacy County rollover accident

    WESLACO, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating a one-vehicle roller over fatality that killed one man on Saturday, according to a Texas DPS news release. A DPS investigation showed at around 5:13 p.m., a white Ford F-550, occupied only by the driver, was traveling southbound on US 77 south of []

  • Biden's Jekyll-and-Hyde approach to Israel is a disaster in the making

    The remark, made as Biden closed in on the Democrats’ 2020 nomination, has served as a handy explanation for his otherwise inexplicable habit of seizing defeat from the jaws of victory.

  • Worker Dies In Accident At Peru's Chancay Megaport Project

    LIMA, May 11 (Reuters) – Hong Kong-based Cosco Shipping Ports said on Saturday that a worker died in an early-morning accident at a megaport it is building on Peru’s Pacific coast. The worker was doing

  • Weather disaster with 127 deaths battered the week in Brazil

    Brasilia, May 11 (Prensa Latina) The climatic calamity caused by the scourge of storms in Rio Grande do Sul state, which has caused 127 deaths and 141 missing persons, marked the ending week today in Brazil. The post Weather disaster with 127 deaths battered the week in Brazil first appeared on Prensa Latina.

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    San Benito Police investigate auto-pedestrian accident

    SAN BENITO, Texas (ValleyCentral) — San Benito Police are investigating an auto-pedestrian accident at the 2300 block of Expressway 83. Around 5:47 a.m. Thursday, police said a man with visible injuries was transported to an area hospital. According to authorities, the driver involved did remain at the scene. The case is under investigation.

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    McAllen Marine killed in aviation accident laid to rest

    MISSION, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A McAllen native U.S. Marine Corporal who died during an aviation incident was laid to rest Thursday afternoon. Miguel Angel Maya, 23, died on April 23 at Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton in California. Military officials say Maya was a U/AH-1 Aircraft Avionics Technician with earned accolades including the Marine []