When 2019 started, California’s snowpack was at 67%. Now it’s at over 136% and rising. The atmospheric rivers that are dumping rain along coastal California are also dumping massive amounts of snow in the state’s Sierra Nevada. Newly released photos from NASA, taken four days and a year apart, show how much snow has fallen.…… MORE
The parents of a dead fraternity pledge have filed a lawsuit against the fraternity, alleging their son died last fall as a result of extensive hazing. While pledging the Sigma Pi fraternity at Ohio University, Collin Wiant was allegedly made to undergo severe hazing, including being beaten with a belt, punched, made to take drugs,…… MORE
When 97-year-old veteran James McCue passed away, he had no surviving members in his family. But he had hundreds of guests honor him in his funeral Thursday. McCue was born and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and served in the US Army during World War II. Massachusetts Secretary of Veterans’ Services Francisco Urena urged community members…… MORE
Two years after 200,000 people evacuated as the nation’s tallest dam threatened to spill over, a judge will hear arguments Friday about whether accusations of corruption, sexism and racism at the California Department of Water Resources played a part in it all. Officials in the Northern California city of Oroville lodged a complaint in January…… MORE
Two alligators with leathery orange skin are raising eyebrows in a community in South Carolina. CNN affiliate WJCL reported that a man discovered the reptiles at a pond in Bluffton. Maybe an overzealous Clemson Tigers fan slathered them with the team colors? Or they ate Flamin’ Hot Cheetos? Or they could be albino alligators? None…… MORE
A strong storm system drenched some areas in California with snow and heavy rains as forecasters warned of mudslides and debris flows in areas ravaged by wildfires. The system affected much of the state — and especially soaked areas along the coast, according to the National Weather Service’s storm prediction center. “Southern California is particularly…… MORE
Susan Gordon was asleep on the second floor early Thursday when the mudslide lifted her home off its foundation, breaking it apart and pushing it down a hillside — with her inside. “It just happened too fast. I did not know what was going on,” the 76-year-old said in a phone interview from a hotel.…… MORE
Rapper 21 Savage says his nearly 10-day detention by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency accentuates what he says are the agency’s flaws. “I don’t think the policy is broken, I feel like the way they enforce the policy is broken,” the rapper said in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “I’ve been here…… MORE
Last Monday, Travis Kauffman went for a run near Fort Collins, Colorado. Little did he know his workout would include suffocating a mountain lion. “I feel like I should go buy a bunch of lottery tickets,” he said. Authorities on Thursday identified Kauffman as the runner who won a fight-to-the-death struggle last week after the…… MORE
When one of New Orleans’ most cherished parades rolls next month, float riders — African-American and white — will greet the screaming throngs wearing lofty feather headdresses, crinkly grass skirts and the sort of black face paint that most anywhere else might draw gasps and cries of racism. Some 1,500 men and women, their faces…… MORE
