5:05 p.m. — Flash flood watch in effect until 4 a.m. SaturdayThe National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for most of our region with the exception of some of our southern suburbs through 4 a.m. due to the threat of numerous heavy showers and thunderstorms during the evening and into the overnight…
The two-day rainfall in Miami was greater than during Hurricane Irma Rainfall rates briefly topped four inches an hour on Sunday in Miami. (Ryan Rea/Social Media/Reuters) When Saturday’s rains first arrived in South Florida, they began as a few showers. Then downpours. And over the weekend, the rains didn’t relent. By Saturday, many parts of…
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…