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Firefighters battle blaze at Wisconsin railroad tie recycling facility
CAMPBELL, Wis. (AP) — Firefighters spent all day Tuesday battling a blaze at a railroad tie recycling facility in western Wisconsin. The fire broke out early Tuesday morning at Omaha Track in the town of Campbell on French Island, just outside La Crosse, multiple media outlets reported. The facility grinds up scrap railway ties and materials into chips that can be used as biofuel.
Full Daytime Closure of California State Route 9 in Remote Mountains for Critical Maintenance Work
Saratoga, CA – Caltrans Bay Area-District 4 has announced a full daytime closure of State Route 9 (SR-9) between Redwood Gulch Road and Sanborn Road in Saratoga. The closure will be in effect Monday through Friday, from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, starting September 30 and continuing through November 1.
Feds order Cruise to pay $1.5M penalty for infamous SF crash
Federal regulators on Monday announced they had Cruise pay a $1.5 million penalty for withholding details in reports following an accident nearly a year ago in which one of the company’s self-driving cars pinned and dragged a woman nearly 20 feet at a San Francisco intersection. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration consent order dated to Sept. 26 requires the General Motors subsidiary to submit a corrective action plan, which must include summaries on any software update made to the company’s automatic driving system, as...
Bay Area residents brace themselves for potential PG&E power outages in wildfire risk areas
Thousands of PG&E customers could be without power starting Monday in an effort to mitigate the risk of wildfire.Bay Area residents in the potentially affected counties are bracing themselves."I'm concerned," said John Pereira, referring to the power at his ranch potentially being cut off."PG&E coworkers and PGE meteorologists have been watching weather systems, and we're seeing in the next few days breezy offshore winds, low humidity and all these conditions for wildfire," said Megan McFarland, PG&E spokesperson. "If we go forward with this PSPS, it could potentially impact 13,500 customers spread across a targeted portion of 13 counties."RELATED: Power outages...
Northern California weather: October sees rare heat wave
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Northern California just experienced its hottest summer on record, but the hits keep coming. So far, there have been 45 days with temperatures 100 degrees or hotter in Sacramento, but there could be a few more that would extend that record. Tuesday will get close to...
Everything Brent Pry said about Stanford, Miami controversy on Tuesday
For the better part of three days, the Virginia Tech airwaves have been flooded with controversy following the ACC's decision to overturn the Hokies game-winning touchdown against No. 7 Miami on Friday night. While fans have lamented over the decision, Brent Pry and the Hokies have been focused on turning...
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