An Ashville business was severely damaged by fire early Saturday morning. Firefighters were dispatched to Captain Ron’s Deli, at 1662 Liberty St., about 2:38 a.m. for a working structure fire with entrapment, according to a post on the Ashville Volunteer Fire Company’s Facebook ...
Public officials would be banned from promoting cryptocurrency when they have a financial interest under legislation passed by the House recently. The House voted 131-71 for House Bill 2037, sponsored by Rep. Ben Waxman, D-Philadelphia, at the end of June. The bill is before the Senate State Government Committee. HB2037 expands the scope of the state Ethics Act to include current officials creating or promoting cryptocurrency in which they have a financial interest or receive a financial benefit. The term refers to a digital asset or virtual currency like Bitcoin, meme coin, ...
KENSINGTON, Maryland — The contiguous United States sizzled to its hottest month ever last month, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. July averaged 76.89 degrees Fahrenheit across the Lower 48 states, eclipsing the Dust Bowl’s July 1936 by an eighth of a degree. Records go back to 1895. “It’s not good when you’re breaking records from the Dust Bowl, which we are in this case,” said meteorologist Jeff Masters of Yale Climate Connections. “And that was a crazy sort of situation where you put tens of millions of people in motion. You had this ...
Aug. 6 marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Among the more than 70,000 people killed that day were 12 American prisoners of war. One of those prisoners was 1st Lt. Joseph Dubinsky, 26, of Washington, the pilot of a B-24 bomber, Taloa, ...
An organization that has paid for the acquisition and training of service dogs for local people in need for the last 15 years has gifted one final animal — this time to a public agency — before the organization dissolves, in response to the death last year of its leader. Service Paws of ...
Writer Steven Gdula pursues whatever sparks his imagination. “I built a whole career out of doing that,” he said. Discovering his passions for music and cooking at a young age, Beaverdale native Gdula combined his interests through writing articles and books. His music articles were ...
