LEAVENWORTH -A 23-year-old New York man fell about 50 feet and suffered a head wound and back injury Wednesday afternoon while climbing Dragontail Peak in the Enchantments, roughly 10 miles southwest of Leavenworth, according to a news release from the Chelan County Sheriff's Office.
The pews are empty at Calvary Temple Holiness Church on Atlanta's scorching summer Sundays. Scrap-metal thieves have stripped the East Atlanta church of its air conditioning. "They just completely destroyed them beyond repair," church board chairman Richard Bradford said. The thieves caused more than $30,000 in damage getting at less than $50 worth of copper. "We're on hiatus until the fall,"
FRENCHTOWN - Some of the fastest times and longest throws belonged to Bitterrooters Saturday at the Frenchtown CTA Invitational track and field meet. Meet records fell as a Falcon, Blue Devil and Tiger set new ones.
On nice sunny days, Bob Oset’s shiny blue 12- by 16-foot solar panels array often produces enough power to run his meter backwards and send electricity back into the grid.
Thousands of 12-year-old children have played on Little League and Cal Ripken baseball all-star teams in Mercer County over the years. But for many of those kids, the days of playing competitive baseball end there.
Source: Reuters Aug 3 (Reuters) - At least nine people have died climbing K-2, the world's second highest mountain. Most of the deaths resulted from an ice fall close to the summit of the 8,611 metre (28,250 ft) peak
Everyone has their favourite places they think are known only to them and a few others – passed, perhaps, down through their family like some arcane trade secret. Rarely, however, do you find them in "what to do in the holidays" guides – so often the recyclers of the terrifyingly obvious.