Public Safety
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The Flathead County Sheriff's Office is set to receive a new remote underwater vehicle after getting approval from county commissioners on Tuesday. -
The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office on Monday arrested the man after he reportedly stole a vehicle from a business in east Fort Collins, set it on fire and damaged nearby agricultural land.
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The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors will evaluate a $13 million rental agreement for the Sheriff’s Office to obtain new radios and accompanying equipment. The previous lease dates to 2015 and expired last year.
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County leaders say the absence of data makes it more difficult to explain to the public the need to change the local approach for dealing with the virus and to make the case that reluctant people should get vaccinated.
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The county updated its emergency declaration Tuesday in response to rising COVID-19 cases. It applies throughout the county, including in the towns of Carrboro , Chapel Hill and Hillsborough , and has been extended indefinitely.
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Hospitalizations have more than doubled in just two weeks in the Idaho Panhandle, and Washington's Kootenai Health has the highest number of COVID patients of any hospital in the state of Idaho.
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The newly released Hawai'i Highways Climate Adaptation Action Plan uses historical data and climate projections from other agencies to examine potential risks to 917 miles of state-owned roads on six islands.
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What’s most unsettling is that everyone inside Parkland Memorial Hospital understands that delta is not the end of the game — it’s only the current game. There’s another variant out there waiting.
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Cal Fire spokesman Rick Carhart said “there were a number of homes and buildings destroyed,” but a full assessment of the damages wasn’t immediately available. Numerous photos and video posted on social media showed buildings on Greenville’s Main Street burning.
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Vintners aren’t the only ones with growing concern about fire protection in Napa County. A local nonprofit, the Napa Firewise Foundation, has secured funding from the county for its Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
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The gunshot detection tech provider faces serious controversy in Chicago. But the company keeps on growing and has big plans for the coming months, thanks in part to fresh product offerings.
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“On the pediatric side, I’ll just tell you that in the last 12 months, [at USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital], our pediatric services diagnosed 500 cases of COVID in children.”
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Cleanup continues after rain-driven floodwater swept into the area early Friday, washing away cars and buildings. At least one person died, according to WKYT, the Herald-Leader's reporting partner.
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Center for Strategic and International Studies senior vice president Seth G. Jones said his organization catalogued 110 domestic terrorist attacks and plots in 2020—an increase of 45 incidents since 2019.
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The district recorded 598 positive cases last school year—that includes some students who were learning remotely; the majority of the infections and quarantines were on the high school level.
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Most students will be showing up to campus for in-person, face-to-face learning in a long-planned move to bring stability to Hawaii children, along with a better brand of instruction, after more than a year of disruption and uncertainty.
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Hospital emergency rooms are once again filled with COVID patients, and administrators are scrambling to staff up to meet the demand as business and political leaders stand on the verge of reimposing mask mandates.
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In most years, a global pandemic would top the list in response for any emergency management director, but for Hall it was just a piece of a busy year with one emergency after another.
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“The big concern is that the next variant that might emerge — just a few mutations potentially away — could potentially evade our vaccines,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said this week.
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The startup’s roots are in hooking up fire agencies with building data. But in five years, it’s expanded into other areas of IT and dipped into EMS and police, too. With new investment, it hopes to double its headcount.
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Those temperatures are not as alarming as the all-time record 109 degrees reached on June 29, the peak of a stretch of brutal heat in which 20 people in Spokane County died of suspected heat-related causes.
