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Click here for updates on this story     RUTHERFORD COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — Two years after a catastrophic fire shut down the American Zinc plant (AZP) outside Forest City in Rutherford County, News 13 has documented at least 41 environmental and plant hazardous material safety violations since 2014. This includes the company’s self-report that it

Click here for updates on this story     DOYLINE, Louisiana (KTBS) — A historic home turned popular wedding venue was reduced to charred rubble Wednesday afternoon when a fire razed the almost 180-year-old structure. Webster Parish Sheriff Jason Parker confirmed the fire destroyed Azalee Plantation, owned by the Montgomery family. Cause of the fire is unknown

An explosion at a paint manufacturing facility in Ohio left several injured, two critically, and one person unaccounted for, according officials in Columbus. Firefighters who responded just after midnight to reports of an explosion were met by five employees evacuating the building who were transported to hospitals in stable condition, City of Columbus assistant public

Click here for updates on this story     CLARK COUNTY, Washington (KPTV) — Clark County Fire District 6 Firefighters were able to save a cat and several kittens Wednesday after a house fire in Felida. Crews say the fire started at 4:15 p.m. on Northwest 34th Avenue. Initial reports say that the homeowner was inside and

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — On Wednesday, city commissioners unanimously approved a nearly $6 million plan to address the rising number of shootings and assaults in Portland. The plan proposes the following: • The Portland Police Bureau will internally realign resources to gain the patrol, analytic and investigative capacities

More than a third of the Antarctic ice shelf risks collapsing into the sea if global temperatures reach 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels as climate change warms the world, a new study from the UK’s University of Reading has warned. In a forecasting study, scientists found that 34% of the area

The US will resume the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars in aid for Palestinians that was previously halted by the Trump administration. Over $200 million will soon begin to flow to economic, development and humanitarian programs for the Palestinian people, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday — a move hailed by both

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — An Ontario nurse who spent the past 13 years working at an acute care setting in the Greater Toronto Area has died from COVID-19, according to her nursing association. In a statement released on Wednesday, the Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario (WeRPN)

Click here for updates on this story     TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Heinz Ketchup and French’s Ketchup are not experiencing product shortages in Canada as spikes in takeout orders are making ketchup tough to come by across the border. In the U.S., Heinz has faced “surge in demand for ketchup packets driven by the accelerated

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At least five people are dead after what authorities are calling a “case of a mass shooting” at a home in York County, South Carolina. The victims of the Wednesday evening shooting near Rock Hill included a doctor, his wife and their two grandchildren, the York County Sheriff’s Office said in a tweet. The family

At least five people are dead after what authorities are calling a “case of a mass shooting” at a home in York County, South Carolina. The victims of the Wednesday evening shooting near Rock Hill included a doctor, his wife and their two grandchildren, the York County Sheriff’s Office said in a tweet. The family

Garett Wagner was working Tuesday morning when a man wearing military fatigues and covered in blood walked into the Nicolock Paving Stones facility in Frederick, Maryland. “‘I’ve been shot. Please help me. There’s an active shooter, he’s still chasing me,” the man said, according to Wagner, the operations manager at Nicolock. The wounded man was