QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. (KPNX/NBC News) — Something you might see in a Disney movie is happening in real life at Aimee’s Farm Animal Sanctuary in Queen Creek, Arizona. Duke the calf and Rex the chicken have become an inseparable duo at the sanctuary. Aimee’s Animal Sanctuary is a place where animals with special needs are loved and cared for. Duke…
(KDLT/NBC News) — Family members of a man struck and killed by South Dakota’s Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg Saturday night are asking for more information. Ravnsborg called 911 immediately after the crash on Highway 14 outside of Highmore, saying he believed he had hit a deer. The body of the victim, 55-year-old Joseph Boever of Highmore, was not found until…
(NBC News) — With deadly fires raging in Oregon and California, sending toxic smoke across the western United States, presidential candidates are at odds over whether climate change is to blame. On Monday President Trump said he believes “it will get cooler” during a visit to areas impacted by California’s wildfire, adding “I don’t think science knows” when pressed on…
(NBC News) — Tim Snyder had a problem shared by many homeowners across the country: An expensive swimming pool that goes unused most of the time. Snyder signed up for Swimply, an app that matches people who own pools with people who want to swim in them. “Within two days we were up and running and collecting pool fees,” he…
(NBC News) — As the death toll continues to climb, officials are warning evacuees in the fire-ravaged western states have a harder time making it to safety the longer they wait. “There are weakened trees, electrical wires down. There could be damaged structures out there and things that are hazardous to the general public,” says Operations Section Chief Ralph Lucas,…
(NBC News) — The climate crisis is taking center stage on the presidential campaign trail as wildfires rage across the west and the Gulf Coast braces for impact from another hurricane. “Donald Trump’s climate denial may not have caused these fires and record floods and record hurricanes, but if he gets a second term, these hellish events will continue to…
(NBC News) — The health impacts from the wildfires raging across several western states are reaching far beyond the flames, bringing dangerously bad air quality to neighboring states and beyond. Sections of California, Oregon and Washington are currently breathing some of worst air in the world. The smoke is spreading as far as Hawaii and the Midwest at points. “The…
(WSMV/NBC News) — A man accused of killing two people and shooting three others as part of a carjacking and spree is dead. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the suspect, 29-year-old Dangelo Dorsey of St. Louis, Missouri, took his own life after a brief chase along Interstate 24 in Coffee County. Investigators say the incident all began around 9:30…
