Archive: May 12, 2016
Letter Carriers to do Double Duty Saturday for Good Cause
FRANKFORT, Ky. - This week, helping feed people who are hungry in Kentucky will be as easy as putting canned food by the mailbox. Saturday is the 24th year of the "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive, when letter carriers across the country collect nonperishable foods from homes as they deliver mail. Denis ...Read More
Tar Heel State A-Flutter About Butterfly Highway
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – North Carolina's Butterfly Highway isn't going to shorten your nightly commute, but it will make it more scenic. The project began a year ago in the Charlotte area as an effort to increase the network of pollinator habitats in the community, and make it easier for butterfli ...Read More
Caring for TN Starts With Caring for TN Women
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In the midst of being mothers, daughters, wives and caregivers, women in Tennessee don't always make time to take care of themselves. That's why the Tennessee Department of Health is celebrating National Women's Health Week and reminding women in the state to take small, m ...Read More
Missouri Wolf Center in the Spotlight
ST. LOUIS - A couple of wolf pups have gotten a lot of attention after becoming the first to be born in captivity and placed in a den in the wild, where a female wolf had just given birth. The pups were taken to New Mexico for release shortly after being born at the Endangered Wolf Center in St. Lou ...Read More
Obama Hiroshima Visit: MA Peace Activists Urge Concrete Proposals
BOSTON – It is a visit that is sure to make history, but a Boston-based peace group says President Barack Obama needs to have some constructive initiatives in hand when he visits Hiroshima later this month. Obama plans to become the first U.S. president to visit that part of Japan since the ...Read More
Antero Works to Reassure on Hot Sludge, Frack Waste
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The sludge that would come from an Antero frack wastewater recycling plant would be low-level radioactive material, but Antero says it will be properly disposed of. Some people in Doddrige County and the gas fields are worried about what will happen to the somewhat radioactive ...Read More
Gas Pipeline Regs "Favor Overbuilding" in VA
RICHMOND, Va. – Federal regulations may be favoring duplication and overbuilding of huge pipeline projects proposed to bring natural gas to Virginia and other eastern markets. Between them, the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) ultimately could cost ratepayers ...Read More
Opioid Epidemic Boosts Number of OH Kids Needing Loving Homes
TOLEDO, Ohio - May is Foster Care Month, and efforts are intensifying in Ohio to recruit foster parents. According to state data, there are almost 13,000 children in the foster care system in Ohio, yet only about 7,000 foster parents are available through public agencies to provide care. At Lucas C ...Read More
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