The whopper hailstones punched holes through roofs and left craters in the ground Five-inch hail fell on Burkburnett, Tex., on May 22. (Rick Smith/NWS Norman) There’s hail, there’s big hail, and then there’s what fell on Burkburnett, Tex., about 10 miles north of Wichita Falls, on Friday afternoon. Hail topping five inches in diameter crashed…
As of last week, only about 5 percent of applicants had received benefit payments. And that was before the state felt the full effect of the devastation to its travel and tourism industries, as Walt Disney World furloughed tens of thousands of employees. “I am the biggest Florida skeptic on the planet,” said Matt Bennett…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…