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I am going to cover the Key Bridge removal work, I will find 5 stories then move on to finding neat stuff.
I could not find 5 print stories that were easy to open for everyone.
I also know many of you are not on xitter and most likely can’t watch these
Baltimore officials open third temporary channel around collapsed Key Bridge
A third temporary channel has been opened in the Port of Baltimore to help move the flow of traffic around the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Unified Command, which is made up of the US Coast Guard and Army Corps of Engineers, in addition to state agencies, announced the update in a news release on Friday.
The channel, located on the northeast side of the bridge, has a depth of 20 feet, a horizontal clearance of 300 feet and a vertical clearance of 135 feet. Previously, authorities have been able to open two other temporary channels, including another on the northeast side and one on the southwest side.
Supreme Court confronts the US homelessness crisis
The US Supreme Court confronted the nation's homelessness crisis on Monday, weighing whether a ban on sleeping in public is cruel and unusual punishment.
The case centres on the small town of Grants Pass, Oregon, but has broad implications for cities of all sizes.
The court's conservative majority appeared sympathetic to the argument that questions around homelessness should be left to local governments.
Its decision is expected in early summer.
Grants Pass has barred camping or sleeping on public property or in city parks, defining "campsite" as any place where "bedding, sleeping bag or other material used for bedding purpose, or any stove or fire is placed". Violators may be fined $295, or face 20 days in jail for repeat offenses.
The city, with a population just under 40,000 people, said it enforced its camping ordinances with "moderation", issuing more than 500 citations over a five year period from 2013 to 2018.
Rail spikes hammered, bullet train being built from Sin City to the City of Angels
A $12 billion passenger bullet train linking Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area was dubbed the first true high-speed rail line in the nation on Monday, with the private company building it predicting millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028.
“People have been dreaming of high-speed rail in America for decades,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg before taking a stage with union representatives and company officials at the future site of a terminal to be built just south of the Las Vegas Strip. “It’s really happening this time."
Buttigieg cited Biden administration support for the project that he said will bring thousands of union jobs, boost local economies and cut traffic and air pollution.
A pilot’s fateful, career-altering flight under Michigan’s Mackinac Bridge
Everyone has seen a flyover, right? The fighter jets that are somehow timed up to fly over the stadium right as the national anthem singer finishes the lyrics, “home of the brave.”
But have you ever heard of a military flyunder?
It’s not a technical term. Merriam-Webster doesn’t recognize it as a real word, and the U.S. military would like to pretend it has never happened, but there has been at least one military flyunder on record: when a West Michigan pilot flew his Air Force B-47 Stratojet bomber underneath the Mackinac Bridge.
There are not a lot of details confirmed on the record, but it happened. John Lappo, from Muskegon, lived the tale. And while the Air Force may not have anything to say about it, the late Lappo’s story lives on 65 years after the controversial flight.
Ex-Giant Pete Hall, 85, sentenced to five years in prison
Clyde Hall played in 1961 for the New York Giants after a college football career at Marquette.
Hall, who had two receptions for 22 yards in his NFL career, is now 85. He turned that age on Feb. 28.
Hall was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for trying to sell fentanyl-laced drugs to an undercover cop in 2021.
Bricks of cocaine found in lamp offer clue into a Homestead woman’s deadly carjacking
Bricks of cocaine tucked away in a lamp fixture are the latest twist in the investigation into the carjacking and murder of a Homestead woman in Central Florida.
The revelation in the bizarre murder case emerged April 16 after Homeland Security Investigations agents found a suspicious parcel being mailed from Puerto Rico, according to a federal criminal complaint. A K9 alerted them of the package, where 3.28 kilograms of cocaine were sealed in the lamp with caulk and nails.
A police officer dropped the parcel off at a St. Cloud address in Central Florida, near Kissimmee, as agents staked out the area. Monicsabel Romero Soto was spotted repeatedly driving around the home in a white Acura SUV, presumably to ensure no law enforcement was present, the complaint alleges.
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Pluto’s heart-shaped basin might not hide an ocean after all
Rather than a vast ocean, Pluto’s heart might be hiding a huge, heavy treasure.
Computer simulations suggest that an object about 730 kilometers wide, slightly larger than the asteroid Vesta, could have slammed into the dwarf planet billions of years ago, forming the famous Sputnik Planitia and leaving behind a rocky remnant, researchers report April 15 in Nature Astronomy.
Sputnik Planitia first appeared in images taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it zipped past Pluto in 2015 (SN: 7/15/15). The heart-shaped feature, which has roughly the same area as the Democratic Republic of Congo, sits three to four kilometers below the rest of Pluto’s surface and is filled with frozen nitrogen.
“We think it’s an impact basin, because that’s the easiest way to make a giant hole in the ground,” says planetary scientist Adeene Denton of the University of Arizona in Tucson.
been a while since I did a post, I found the news media sites harder to find easy stories for eveyone to use