Brussels sprouts spill at ShopRite caused serious injury, customer says in $3M lawsuit
A New Jersey woman has filed a $3 million lawsuit against a ShopRite store claiming she was seriously injured when she fell after slipping on loose Brussels sprouts. Linda Swedin, 64, of Ringwood, ...
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How satellites and AI help fight wildfires today
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) John W. Daily, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) As wind-driven ...
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South Africa’s Shoprite half-year sales jump 9.6%
South Africa’s biggest supermarket retailer Shoprite Holdings said on Tuesday its half-year sales from continuing operations grew by 9.6% to 128.6 billion rand ($6.84 billion).
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Cost of basic foodstuffs drops as inflation hits four-year low
Maverick Citizen has been tracking the prices of 14 basic food items that a consumer can buy with R370, the amount of the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant. The cost of the basket has seen a ...
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About 70 people killed in attack on hospital in Sudan's Darfur region, WHO chief says
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said ...
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Tens of Thousands Told to Evacuate as New Fire Rages North of L.A.
The Hughes fire, burning near Castaic Lake north of Santa Clarita, exploded to more than 10,000 acres of mostly brush in just a few hours. More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders and ...
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Our Relationship With Fire Is Creating The Burning Equivalent of an Ice Age
Los Angeles is burning, but it isn't alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in Colorado, the southern Appalachians and the island of Maui, along with Canada, Australia, Portugal, ...
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California Wildfire Map Shows Where Every Fire Is Burning
Four new wildfires have already started this week. The Palisades fire ignited on January 7 and is still burning. It is more than 23,400 acres in size and is 68 percent contained. Some evacuation ...
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When will the LA fires stop burning? Weekend rains could bring relief — and new dangers
Weekend rains could finally help tamp down the still-burning Los Angeles wildfires, but those rains could bring deadly mudslides and flooding to the communities in and around the fire zones.
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California wildfire maps: Here's where the LA County wildfires are burning
WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS. ANOTHER BIG WILDFIRE IS BURNING RIGHT NOW IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. THIS FIRE RACING THROUGH THOUSANDS OF ACRES AS FIRE CREWS ARE SCRAMBLING TO PROTECT HOMES AND BUSINESSES.
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Fast-moving wildfire burning near Castaic, causing traffic delays on Grapevine
CASTAIC, Calif. (KERO) — What's described as a "fast-moving" wildfire is burning near Castaic and causing closures on the I-5 including on the Grapevine. Crews are battling the Hughes Fire ...
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Human use of fire has produced an era of uncontrolled burning: Welcome to the Pyrocene
This “pyric transition” in types of combustion forces the two different kinds of burning – fires in living landscapes and fires that burn lithic landscapes – to interact in ways that ...