ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - At least 6 dead, 130 missing after Indonesian ferry capsizes, officials say
Officials said the ferry was carrying 243 people between Java and Borneo.
YOUTUBE (CNN) - Search underway for missing ship with hundreds of passengers
Indonesian rescuers are searching for 140 people from a passenger ship, which lost contact during bad weather in the Java Sea, according to a search and rescue agency. Officials later said the ship had sunk, without providing further details. #cnn #news #indonesia
ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - Search underway after Indonesian passenger ship carrying hundreds loses contact
Indonesian rescuers have launched a search operation after a passenger ship carrying more than 240 people lost contact in the Java Sea while traveling from East Java to South Kalimantan on Borneo island
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Theodore Dalrymple) - Preparing for the Fire
The conflagrations in France provide an occasion for deciding what is actually valuable. The post Preparing for the Fire appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Culture Preparing for the Fire The conflagrations in France provide an occasion for deciding what is actually valuable. All four of my grandparents were refugees, fleeing real persecution and the prospect of death. My mother was a refugee, and her sister was a refugee twice in her life by the age of 42. I, however, have never faced any danger (give or take a serious illness or two) that I did not court voluntarily. Sometimes I feel a little guilty at my own good fortune by comparison with that of my immediate ancestors. Recently, however, I experienced a very faint echo of what…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Snohomish County deputies wrangle escaped goat that terrorized a Washington neighborhood
Two sheriff's deputies in Snohomish County, Washington, had to grab an escaped goat by its foot-long horns after the animal went on a ramming spree that trapped residents inside their homes. The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office sent deputies to a neighborhood on August 28 after the goat broke free from its pen and started charging […] The post Snohomish County deputies wrangle escaped goat that terrorized a Washington neighborhood appeared first on American Almanac .
Two sheriff's deputies in Snohomish County, Washington, had to grab an escaped goat by its foot-long horns after the animal went on a ramming spree that trapped residents inside their homes. The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office sent deputies to a neighborhood on August 28 after the goat broke free from its pen and started charging at people nearby. Body camera footage released by the agency shows two deputies wrestling the animal, one gripping each horn, and muscling it back toward its enclosure. One deputy, audibly straining, summed up the encounter in five words. "This thing is really strong, dude," he told his partner, the effort plain in his voice. The goat, sporting roughly one-foot-long horns, had turned the block into a no-go…Open
ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - WATCH: Teen rescued by Coast Guard after 3 days lost in the Bering Sea
The 15-year-old boy in Alaska, who had gone fishing with his brother and cousin, was the sole survivor.
NYTIMES (Glynnis MacNicol) - Canada Took In American Planes on 9/11. It Still Would Today.
A tiny slice of Newfoundland welcomed in stranded passengers.
DAILYCALLER (Mark Tanos) - Drunk Goggles, Broken Neck, Collapsed Lung: Police Department Sued After Allegedly Letting 11-Year-Old Drive Golf Cart
The Family Is Seeking Punitive And Compensatory Damages
NYTIMES (Zunaira Saieed) - Fighting Wildfire Haze With an Airplane and Lots of Salt and Water
The authorities in Malaysian Borneo have been trying to seed clouds to counteract the effects of smoke wafting in from neighboring Indonesia.
NYTIMES (Jeanna Smialek) - How Fighting Fires Became an All-of-Europe Project
The European Union isn’t known for firefighting expertise. But with the continent ablaze, Brussels is playing a growing role.