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How Will the Sheriffs’ Gun Lawsuit Impact the Gun Conversation?
With 85% of Colorado's sheriffs signed onto an historic lawsuit, it is clear that an entirely new chapter is about to be written in Colorado's conversation about guns.
cbslocal.com (42 minutes ago)
Citizen Awards winners honored
Having a positive impact on others' lives and working tirelessly to improve the region were the common threads among this year's Citizen Awards recipients, which were honored by The Herald-Dispatch on Sunday at the Huntington Museum of Art.
herald-dispatch.com (2 hours ago)
Small glaciers, big impact
Studies show there's another ice reserve to worry about besides the vast Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
businessspectator.com.au (4 hours ago)
Australia teaches lessons on development from mining
Australia is sharing some of its historical lessons about mining's impact on development at an international conference in Sydney.
abc.net.au (4 hours ago)
Man killed and four people injured after Newark house is set alight by 'gas explosion'
The explosion just after 5pm on a street in Newark, Nottinghamshire, prompted police to ask local people to remain indoors and keep their windows shut to reduce the impact of dust.
dailymail.co.uk (4 hours ago)
District appeals decision to save Chinatown House in Rancho Cucamonga
RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- The Cucamonga Valley Water District is appealing a recent Planning Commission decision that puts a delay on a city demolition order on the historic Chinatown House until an environmental impact review is conducted.
dailybulletin.com (4 hours ago)
Is EVERY Market Rigged?
CNN reports: The European Commission raided the offices of Shell, BP and Norway’s Statoil this week as part of an investigation into suspected attempts to manipulate global oil prices spanning more than a decade. None of the companies have been accused of wrongdoing, but the controversy has brought back memories of...
zerohedge.com (4 hours ago)
Scottish bank customers warned over deposit protection scheme
Bank customers and pensioners in Scotland would be less well protected if the country voted to leave the UK, a report warned on Monday. The analysis, part of the Treasury's look at devolution's impact, says an independent Scotland could have significant difficulties providing standalone protection to match the...
guardian.co.uk (6 hours ago)
Tri-county area officials prepare for Tuesdays primary election
NORRISTOWN - When voters head to the polls during Tuesday's primary election they'll encounter that sometimes confusing political practice of cross-filing and might be casting ballots at new polling places. Under state law, candidates seeking nominations for judicial seats, district justice posts and school board...
thereporteronline.com (7 hours ago)
An Interview With Dr. Joshua Pearce Of Printers For Peace
Joshua Pearce, PhD, is a researcher at Michigan Tech who rearches open source and low-impact solutions to engineering problems. He is also the founder of the Printers For Peace contest, an effort to bring together clever 3D-printed ideas that have loftier aims. You can win one of two 3D printers if you submit the...
techcrunch.com (8 hours ago)
LOOK: Places That Will Never Be The Same
If you had any doubts that we're living in a new age called the Anthropocene -- the term geologists have begun to use to describe our era, as defined by the impact humans are leaving on the planet -- then a look at the hundreds of cavernous open-pit mining operations scattered across the Earth's surface ought to be...
huffingtonpost.com (9 hours ago)
Japan Economy Minister: "Yen's Excessive Strength Has Been Largely Corrected; Further Weakness...
As if sniffing at the threat the ongoing collapse in JGBs, culminated by Toyota pulling a bond issue on soaring yields, which forced even JPM to come out with an ominously titled piece called the "VaR Shock" driven by the epic plunge in the Yen, Japan's economy minister Akira Amari has hit the wires saying "the...
zerohedge.com (9 hours ago)
The KFC smugglers of Gaza
Gaza is not always what people think. You want a lion? An Egyptian bride in a wedding dress? Viagra? An SUV, a double-door fridge freezer that dispenses perfect ice cubes, cigarettes, guns, Belgian chocolate? No problem. Now, as well as the above, the black market tunnels between Gaza and Egypt are bringing KFC...
guardian.co.uk (10 hours ago)
Tri-county area officials prepare for Tuesdays primary election
NORRISTOWN - When voters head to the polls during Tuesday's primary election they'll encounter that sometimes confusing political practice of cross-filing and might be casting ballots at new polling places. Under state law, candidates seeking nominations for judicial seats, district justice posts and school board...
pottsmerc.com (10 hours ago)
Why the Church of England is in decline | Andrew Brown
"I can show you why the Church of England is completely fucked," said the vicar. He showed me an email he had just received from the diocesan authorities about his "continuing ministerial development" – in effect his annual performance review. It came with 20 attachments, from A to T, 19 of which he was supposed to...
guardian.co.uk (10 hours ago)
Want a long, healthy life? Don’t plan to retire early
Retirement has a “drastic” impact on mental and physical health, a groundbreaking study has found.
indiatimes.com (11 hours ago)
Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash on the moon
An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) rock slamming into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light, NASA scientists said on Friday.
indiatimes.com (11 hours ago)
Wigan Athletic 2-2 Aston Villa | Premier League match report
With or without him, said Wigan's manager Roberto Martínez in the build-up to this game, the Latics will take on the Championship in a far stronger state than they were when they won promotion from the division nine years ago. That much is surely true, even if the likes of midfielders Shaun Maloney, James McCarthy...
guardian.co.uk (11 hours ago)
Edison Electric Company The decade Los Angeles really lit up: Power company photographs capture...
Black and white photos show Los Angeles in the 1940s. The pictures look at the impact of electricity in the form of household appliances and the landscape. The photographers working for the Edison Electric Company took more than 70,000 snaps and show how life changed forever as California became electrified,
dailymail.co.uk (11 hours ago)
Jihadists' control of Syrian oilfields signals a decisive moment in conflict
The stranglehold that Jabhat al-Nusra and its allies have achieved over Syria's oilfields signals a decisive moment in the conflict that will shape the rapidly and violently evolving map of the new Middle East. The impact is immediately visible. With a new independent source of funding, the jihadists holding the...
guardian.co.uk (11 hours ago)
Swansea City 0-3 Fulham | Premier League match report
Swansea City have scaled the heights this season, travelling to Wembley Stadium and collecting silverware, but all the euphoria ended in a bit of a damp squib at the Liberty Stadium. They dominated much of a scrappy match against a Fulham side in dismal form but lost to two breakaway goals and a tap-in in time added...
guardian.co.uk (12 hours ago)
Heatwave deaths in New York city could rise by up to 22%, study shows
New York city could experience up to 22% more deaths from extreme summertime heat in the coming decade under global warming, according to a study of the impact of climate trends. The higher deaths will be partially offset by a reduction in deaths due to the milder winters predicted in Manhattan. Overall, however,...
guardian.co.uk (12 hours ago)
AP boss condemns US government for 'unconstitutional' phone seizures
The Obama administration's decision to seize phone records from the Associated Press was "unconstitutional" and sends a message that "if you talk to the press, we are going to go after you", the news agency's boss Gary Pruitt said Sunday. AP revealed last week that the Justice Department had obtained two months'...
guardian.co.uk (12 hours ago)
Vic third runway to impact on 3000 homes
AT least 3000 homes will be under the flight path when the proposed third runway at Melbourne Airport is completed, according to the draft master plan.
news.com.au (12 hours ago)
Six injured in two head-on collisions in Saratoga Springs
Six people were injured Saturday night after two head-on collisions in Utah County. Saratoga Springs police said the crashes occurred about 9:30 p.m. near 1200 West State Road 73, which is about two miles west of the Saratoga Springs Crossroads intersection. Police said a westbound pickup truck crossed over the...
sltrib.com (13 hours ago)
Carcasses Help Pinpoint Humans' Earliest Use Of Spears
By Heather Pringle Archaeologists have long debated when early humans began hurling stone-tipped spears and darts at large prey. By throwing a spear, instead of thrusting it, humans could hunt buffalo and other dangerous game from a safe distance, with less risk of a goring or mauling. But direct evidence of this...
huffingtonpost.com (14 hours ago)
More on Thomas Perez, disparate impact and the Supreme Court
Sean Higgins Terry Eastland focuses on Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez’s unusual quid pro quo with the city of St.Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com
washingtonexaminer.com (14 hours ago)
Attendance center meeting draws crowd
ROXANA - School District Superintendent Deb Kreutztrager presented the findings of the Attendance Center Study to the board Thursday night outlining the impact the possible transformation could have o
thetelegraph.com (15 hours ago)
Strange diet news: Omega-3 fatty acids minimize negative impact of junk food
Here's a potentially peculiar diet prescription: Sip a chocolate milkshake with whipped cream on top, and then minimize the "it's bad for you" side effects by gulping a fish oil capsule containing omega-3...
examiner.com (16 hours ago)
Heart transplant giving climatologist Lonnie Thompson a second chance
Lonnie Thompson has written to the family of the young man whose heart now beats in the 64-year-old climatologist’s chest. “I will use this, a second opportunity for life, to make a positive impact on the world and my fellow human beings,” he wrote.
dispatch.com (17 hours ago)
