Smoke From Kentucky Wildfires Drifting into Lexington
(TNS) - Two Estill County wildfires created smoky conditions in Lexington and other parts of Kentucky Wednesday morning.Emergency management officials said in a Facebook post...
Florida’s Storm Surge Risk from Nicole Raised by Erosion
(TNS) - When Tropical Storm Nicole hits the east coast of Florida sometime early Thursday, it won’t be packing the Cat 4 winds or pushing...
Sick 9/11 Responders Facing ‘Nightmare’ of Problems
(TNS) - A change in the companies managing health care for more than 118,000 people sickened by the 9/11 attacks has proven a nightmare for...
State of Emergency, Hurricane Watch Issued in Florida
(TNS) - The National Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane watch for Florida’s east coast from the Brevard-Volusia county line south to Hallandale Beach as...
Orange County Police Team With Mental Health Experts
(TNS) - A police radio dispatched the partners — but there were no sirens, flashing lights, guns or handcuffs.They pulled up in an electric-blue van,...
Muskogee County Needs Funding to Replace Outdated Radios
(TNS) - Muskogee Fire Chief Jody Moore says Motorola radios he and his firefighters use are hard to replace or repair."Most everything on this radio...
What Happened to Affordable Flood Insurance?
(TNS) - A decade ago, floods made some strange bedfellows in America.An unlikely coalition of free-market conservatives, good government groups, environmentalists and insurance industry lobbyists...
Pass the Bipartisan Disaster Recovery Act: Opinion
(TNS) - Ute Schaefer remembers the snakes.They flowed in with the flood waters swamping her Houston home during 2017's Hurricane Harvey. She was trapped inside,...
Twenty-Two Rail Cars Overturned in Train Derailment
(TNS) - Twenty-two rail cars overturned in a train derailment in Ravenna Township on Tuesday evening.Crews are still on-scene this morning cleaning up after a...
How and Why You Should Prepare for Florida Hurricanes Now
(TNS) - The most important time to prepare for a hurricane is before a storm has formed.The Tampa Bay Times spoke with 14 experts working...