By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Aug. 2, the 215th day of 2024. There are 151 days left in the year. Today in history: On August 2, 1921, a jury in Chicago acquitted several former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team and two others of conspiring to defraud the public ...
By BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan’s cultural city of Lahore saw record-high rainfall early Thursday, leaving at least three people dead, while flooding streets, disrupting traffic and affecting daily life, officials said, as the death toll from rain-related ...
By JESSE BEDAYN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press LITTLETON, Colo. — A wildfire on the edge of metro Denver crept within a quarter-mile of evacuated homes, but authorities said Thursday they were hopeful that hundreds of threatened residences could be saved as they grapple with sweltering temperatures and firefighters suffering heat exhaustion. The fire was among several threatening heavily populated areas of the Colorado foothills, including one in which a person was killed earlier this week. Almost 100 large fires are burning across the western U.S. The largest — Northern ...
Marquette and vicinity: Today, sunny, with a high near 82. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Tonight, clear, with a low around 62. Northwest wind around 5 mph. Extended forecast: Saturday, sunny, with a high near 82. West wind around 5 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Saturday night, a 30 percent chance of showers after 2 a.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. Sunday, a 30 percent chance of showers before 8 a.m. Mostly sunny, with a high near 72. Sunday night, mostly clear, with a low around 59. Monday, mostly sunny, with a high near 70. Monday night, ...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — The recent heavy rains in northwestern North Korea flooded thousands of houses and a vast extent of farmland and left many residents homeless and living in makeshift tents, North Korea’s state media reported Wednesday. North Korea earlier said more than 5,000 people stranded in Sinuiju city and Uiju town were rescued by airlift and other evacuation work after Saturday’s rains caused a river on the Chinese border to swell. But it hadn’t mentioned any specific damage, or said if there were any casualties. North Korea ...
Marquette and vicinity: Today, a 10 percent chance of showers after 4 p.m. Partly sunny, with a high near 86. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming east in the afternoon. Tonight, a 10 percent chance of showers before 7 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 68. Northeast wind around 5 mph becoming ...
