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NOFD offers free smoke detector installation for hearing-impaired residents

Detection components are designed specifically for deaf and hard-of-hearing residents.

 

Goodbye, Columbus. Hello, Indigenous Peoples Day. | Opinion

Columbus Day has been a federal holiday since 1937 but the gentleman from Genoa does not get much love these days.

 

Person found dead in burning vehicle at River Ridge apartment complex

Emergency crews were called about 3:20 a.m. to the scene of a vehicle fire at The Creeks apartments.

 

Indonesia tsunami death toll nears 2000, more deaths likely

The official toll hit 1,948, mostly in the hard-hit city of Palu.

 

Upstate NY limo crash: 4 sisters on way to birthday celebration among 20 killed

A limousine carrying four sisters, other relatives and friends to a birthday celebration blew through a stop sign and slammed into a parked SUV outside a store in upstate New York, killing all 18 people in the limo and two pedestrians, officials and victims' relatives said Sunday.

 

Climate change warning is dire

No historic precedent for the sweeping change to energy, transportation, other systems necessary to reach 1.5 degrees Celsius

 

So where does the Supreme Court go from here? Simple: forward.

Justices already working to deal with its new post-Kavanaugh image problem.

 

Tropical Storm Michael will likely dodge New Orleans and hit Florida

Meteorologists expect the storm to hit Florida's Panhandle and Big Bend.

 

Haitian earthquake death toll rises to 12; scores injured

Among the victims was a 5-year-old boy killed in a house collapse.

 

Major aftershock rattles earthquake-stricken Haiti

Magnitude 5.2 tremor sparks panic amid recovery process.

 

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