Woman gets life sentence for sitting on, smothering girl
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman has been sentenced to life in prison for killing her 9-year-old cousin sitting on her as a form of punishment. The Pensacola News Journal reports that 66-year-old...
View ArticlePort of Grays Harbor Celebrates Strong Results, Deeper Draft Completion at...
Community and business leaders, along with Port customers, tenants and partners came together Wednesday, February 13, 2019, for the Port of Grays Harbor’s 6th annual Business Report event. Port...
View ArticleTexas petrochemical storage fire rages, may burn for two days
By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) – A fire at a Houston-area petrochemical storage site continued to rage late on Monday and is expected to burn for up to two more days, officials said, sending thick...
View ArticleTexas petrochemical fire spreads to more storage tanks after firefighting snag
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A raging fire at a petrochemical storage terminal in Houston has engulfed two more massive tanks after firefighting water pumps stopped working for six hours, the company said on...
View ArticleAsylum seekers returned from Mexico for first U.S. court hearings
By Lizbeth Diaz and Jose Gallego Espina TIJUANA/SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – Asylum seekers sent to wait in to Mexico under a controversial new Trump administration policy crossed into the United States on...
View ArticleAsylum seekers returned from Mexico for first U.S. court hearings
By Lizbeth Diaz and Jose Gallego Espina TIJUANA/SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – Asylum seekers sent to wait in to Mexico under a controversial new Trump administration policy crossed into the United States on...
View ArticleAsylum seekers returned from Mexico plead to stay in U.S.
By Lizbeth Diaz and Jose Gallego Espina TIJUANA, Mexico/SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – Three asylum seekers due to be returned to Mexico after appearing in U.S. immigration court on Tuesday asked officials to...
View ArticlePort and community celebrate new Friends Landing playground
Port Commissioners were joined by playground donors, community members and a host of eager kids last Friday for the ribbon cutting of the new Friends Landing playground and the beginning of the 2019...
View ArticleGary Nelson elected Chairman of the Board of the American Association of Port...
The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) unanimously elected Port of Grays Harbor Executive Director Gary Nelson to serve as Chairman of the Board for the 2019-20 activity year that begins...
View ArticleTrump policy of sending asylum seekers to Mexico faces judge
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. judge in San Francisco will scrutinize the Trump administration’s policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico during a court hearing Friday to help him decide whether to...
View ArticleChemicals leak at Houston-area petrochem fire prompts new travel restrictions
HOUSTON (Reuters) – An earthen barrier holding chemicals that leaked from a massive petrochemical fire outside Houston breached on Friday, prompting restrictions on travel around the site, part of the...
View ArticleChemicals leak at Houston-area petrochem fire prompts new travel restrictions
HOUSTON (Reuters) – An earthen barrier holding chemicals that leaked from a massive petrochemical fire outside Houston breached on Friday, prompting restrictions on travel around the site, part of the...
View ArticleChemicals leak from Houston-area petrochemical fire disrupts ship traffic
HOUSTON (Reuters) – An earthen barrier holding chemicals that leaked from a massive petrochemical fire outside Houston breached on Friday, prompting restrictions on travel around the site and through a...
View ArticleHouston petrochemical disaster stretches to sixth day, impacting key port
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Fallout from a petrochemical fire outside Houston continued for a sixth day on Saturday, with emergency workers struggling to remove volatile fuels from exposed tanks and ship...
View ArticlePetrochemical leak keeps stretch of Houston port closed a third day
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Ship traffic was halted for a third day on Sunday along a key stretch of the United State’s busiest oil port as emergency workers siphoned fuels from the Houston Ship Channel that...
View ArticlePetrochemical disaster still hampers efforts to clear Houston shipping...
HOUSTON (Reuters) – The backlog of vessels waiting to move through the Houston Ship Channel grew on Monday while it remained closed to traffic for a third day as emergency workers attempted to clear a...
View ArticleAfter devastating floods, U.S. Midwest farms need more than ‘paper towels’ to...
By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – Missouri farmer Richard Oswald needs a lot of help to recover from flooding that left his home and farm looking like a manmade island in an inland sea. Relief groups are...
View ArticleAfter devastating floods, U.S. Midwest farms need more than ‘paper towels’ to...
By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – Missouri farmer Richard Oswald needs a lot of help to recover from flooding that left his home and farm looking like a manmade island in an inland sea. Relief groups are...
View ArticleDNR Issues New Maps to Help Residents Escape a Tsunami
Knowing where to walk and how long it might take to get there can be one of the most important pieces of information for anyone in Washington’s coastal communities when a tsunami strikes. That’s why...
View ArticleOhio man due in federal court on false claim about child
CINCINNATI (AP) — A 23-year-old man faces a U.S. magistrate Tuesday on a charge that he lied to federal agents about being a missing child from Illinois. Authorities on Friday charged Brian Michael...
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