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Columbus Fire Battalion Chief Doug Smith says it’s unheard of to find a cache as big as the one firefighters discovered Thursday night. The items were found when firefighters who saw then going off followed them in the sky to a neighborhood near Reynoldsburg. Residents in the neighborhood say fireworks are part of an annual [...]

Voyager 1’s plasma detector failed after it passed Saturn, so Voyager 2 provided the first glimpse of what happens to the solar wind’s energy as it slams into interstellar space. In 31 years Voyager 2 has travelled a whopping 10-1/2 light hours, at that pace it would would only take 108,624 more years to reach [...]

At least eight people, including two ruling party officials, suffered gunshot wounds. Just under 6 million of the Dominican Republic’s 9 million people were registered to vote. The Dominican Republic is far wealthier than Haiti, its poor neighbor on the island of Hispaniola. But many Dominicans struggle to satisfy basic needs despite a tourism and [...]

His gray, sagging coveralls hung on a nail by the garage door, and as far as I could tell he never washed them. My grandpas friend and next door neighbor, Bill, wore neatly pressed white coveralls to mow the lawn, and it amazed me to no end that they never turned green, never got stained. [...]

Their group, Rescue Ink, has received a complaint from a neighbor that there is a dog in the garage that is never permitted out. Newsday’s Long Island news map. Sal, who lost his job as a maintenance manager when he left on one too many Rescue Ink calls, and Biagi, whose specialty is “hard to [...]

Brant Walker and girlfriend, Kendra Kadas moved into their new San Diego apartment over the summer; little did they know that their neighbor couldnt cook. You come home from work, start walking up the stairs, you smell it a little bit, and it just starts stinking, says Brant. Instead of confronting his neighbors about the [...]

Fire shifted and moving towards homes in Sierra Madre. The fire is east of the Chantry Flats area of the San Gabriel Mountains according to LA County Fire and Arcadia Fire officers I spoke with. One neighbor opined that the fire had been going since late morning and that there were fire trucks up and [...]

Im still working on a balance! Yesterday was a gold star day, the first one in a few days, so Im quite pleased with that. This despite the fact that we had our People-Who-Sit-At-Desks-And-Refrain-From-Murdering-CoWorkers Day luncheon (it may be called Administrative Professionals Day in your Land), which was completely unheralded and therefore unplanned-for. I even [...]

You don’t need a CPA to figure out that sick people cannot afford to buy their own health insurance. Not to run the health care system. I have never, ever, ever heard somebody say that they do not think that having access to health care and the same access as their neighbor has is somehow [...]

With careful, measured language and paced statements, the two Democratic hopefuls guarded against exaggeration, insultsor over-promising. To a conflicted base of voters, any offense by either candidate couldeasily hand their opponent a win in next weeks close Democratic primary in Pennsylvania. (a phrase he would repeat in the debate). I am better able to win, [...]