RENO, Nevada (AP) — During her career as a flight attendant, Laura Haneveld had a checklist to remind her what to do in the event of a fire. “The most important thing on an airplane is fire, whether you are on the ground...
Read MoreMIAMI (AP) — With Hurricane Michael strengthening as it took aim at Florida’s Panhandle, Mark Bowen and his employees watched the live footage through tears. They weren’t looking at increasingly dire storm forecasts...
Read MoreREDDING, California (AP) — How many roads are enough to get out? That’s the question we wondered after watching tragedy unfold in Paradise, California, last year during the Camp Fire. Paradise had five two-lane roads and...
Read MoreREDDING, California (AP) — After the Carr Fire tore through our community of Redding, California, last summer, we mostly avoided the “what if” question. Lines of cars tried to get out of the neighborhoods near the...
Read MorePARADISE, California (AP) — Californians got a deadly wakeup call when more than 27,000 Paradise residents trying to escape the Camp Fire got caught in a nightmare traffic jam. The 2018 catastrophe illuminated the grim reality...
Read MorePARADISE, California (AP) — Wildfire surrounded Darrel Wilken and the three hospital patients in his car. But instead of evacuating Paradise, they were stuck in traffic along with thousands of others. Cars burned in front of...
Read MoreTOKYO (AP) — Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co. reported Thursday a 39% rise in profit for the fiscal year through March on healthy software sales for its popular Switch console. The Kyoto-based company behind the Super...
Read MoreLONDON (AP) — London-based Barclays bank says it may cut costs if “challenging” economic conditions persists throughout the year. The warning came as the bank said Thursday that revenue dropped 2% to 5.25 billion...
Read MoreBERLIN (AP) — Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank said Thursday it is halting talks on a possible merger that would have created Germany’s biggest financial institution but faced questions about costs and job losses. Deutsche...
Read MoreMILAN (AP) — Scientists and environmentalists have long warned about the dangers of plastic pollution, especially now that plastic trash of all types is choking the world’s rivers and oceans. High-end designers have...
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