Saudi Arabia’s energy minister says production was not affected and no one was wounded.
2019
GOP nominates Spiller, Shangraw for city offices
Republicans met Saturday morning to nominate their picks for the November election. With five voters turning out, only two municipal nominations came out of the caucus.
Trading water for cash along the Colorado River
The river provides drinking water for 1 in 10 Americans and waters almost 90 percent of the nation’s winter vegetables.
From tusks to tails, nations target trade in endangered species
The World Wildlife Conference’s agenda contains 56 proposals to change – mostly strengthen – the level of protection for vulnerable animals.
Italy official agrees to let 27 minors off migrant ship
More than 100 other migrants had to remain on the Open Arms while the youths were transferred to a border patrol boat to be processed on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.
Alaska records its warmest month ever; future records likely
The average temperature in July was 58.1 degrees, 5.4 degrees above average and 0.8 degrees higher than the previous warmest month of July 2004, according to NOAA.
Iranian tanker to leave Gibraltar soon despite U.S. pressure
Washington wants to take control of the ship, all of the Iranian light crude oil aboard and $995,000, unsealed court documents show.
El Paso turns out for widower of Walmart massacre victim
Many people wait more than three hours in near 100-degree heat to get inside the funeral home.
50 years later, alumni of Freeport’s ‘free’ school to reunite
FREEPORT — Fifty years ago, Jacob Watson and his wife Sharon built a school on the idea that children should have the freedom to decide what was best for them. Collins Brook School opened in Freeport in 1969, the same year as Woodstock, in the midst of what Watson said was a “free school movement,” […]
New Hampshire motorcyclist, 51, killed in Bridgton wreck
Timothy McNamara’s bike struck a utility pole on Kansas Road around 11 p.m. Friday, police say.