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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Attorneys for a group of eight Indiana students argued their case Tuesday in federal court, saying the policy violates students’ rights to bodily integrity, informed choice of medical treatment and religious freedom.
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The numbers break down as follows: $45.4 million for direct federal assistance, $61 million for low-interest disaster loans, $13.6 million to build group housing sites and about $40.6 to temporarily house fire survivors.
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Significant numbers of Rhode Island residents have not received shots, leaving them vulnerable to the Delta and other variants of the still-evolving COVID-19 virus as fall and winter approach.
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Police and behavioral health experts are working through the logistics of having clinicians answer emergency calls for people in crisis without the accompaniment of an armed police officer.
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Even amid calls to "defund the police," agencies are buying new technology, boosting efficiency and enabling new types of reporting. Mark43 aims to be a major global player in this industry.
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State leaders have a lot of work before them, and it can’t wait until the regular legislative session in the spring. By that time, the grief and horror of the Champlain Tower South collapse will have started to fade.
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The National Weather Service issued three tornado warnings, each lasting about 40 minutes between 2:50 and 5:15 a.m. for parts of Cape May, Atlantic, Ocean and Monmouth counties.
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Assessment teams are aware that the flooding has disproportionately impacted certain communities, so they will “also document specific characteristics” of each home, according to FEMA.
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On Thursday, the California Geological Survey released new tsunami hazard maps for San Francisco, Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties, along with several in Southern California, for the first time since 2009.
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Interviews with doctors and nurses around the region revealed a sense of relief over a waning pandemic leavened by fears that the virus could surge again. They use different terms to describe being on the front lines.
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The parish is eyeing a low-lying green patch on Lee Drive between Liberty Magnet High School and St. James Place retirement communities, some 200 acres of lowland swamps along Bayou Duplantier.
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There is also the potential for isolated tornadoes, primarily in the eastern portion of the Midlands, according to a hazardous weather outlook from the National Weather Service.
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Earlier Tuesday, reports surfaced about an alarming letter sent to homeowners on April 9 outlining how damage to the 12-story building’s basement garage had “gotten significantly worse.”
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The suite brings together a range of applications, allowing personnel to view 911 calls, dispatch activity, live video, records and jail activity in one place — part of a larger trend of unification in public safety.
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Officials say 927 personnel are assigned to the fire, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency approved a grant late Tuesday to allow firefighting agencies to apply for up to 75 percent reimbursement of the costs of battling the blaze.
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The Kane County Health, Ill., Department, Kane County Office of Emergency Management and mobile Illinois National Guard will provide COVID-19 vaccines coming up at farmers markets to anyone over 12 years of age.
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South Carolina's College of Charleston had to put away its plans for a year-long 250th anniversary celebration to instead mitigate the pandemic. The transition yielded lessons for the future, pandemic or not.
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A healthy snowpack is insulating vegetation at elevations above 5,000 feet, but the state’s low-elevation forests and grasslands are as dry as they would typically be by the end of July or early August.
