Technology
Former director of the Alabama NASA center during the Challenger space shuttle explosion dies at 102
William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, has died. Lucas was 102. Lucas died Monday at his home in Huntsville, Alabama, according to an obituary published Friday by Laughlin Service Funeral Home in Huntsville. A funeral service has been […]
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Major storm in the east bringing snow, ice, flooding rain, severe thunderstorms
A large storm is bringing a range of weather hazards from the south and east this weekend. There’s an enhanced risk for severe storms on Saturday stretching from Memphis, Tennessee, to Mobile, Alabama, with most of the action expected late this afternoon into the evening. Storms with damaging winds and flash flooding are the main […]
How dismantling the Department of Education could impact millions of students
How dismantling the Department of Education could impact millions of students
Health
New CDC report shows racial disparity in maternal mortality
New CDC report shows racial disparity in maternal mortality
Bird flu confirmed in older Wyoming woman who likely had contact with infected flock at her home
An older woman in southeast Wyoming is hospitalized with bird flu, state health department officials said Friday. It’s the state’s first human case of Type A H5N1 influenza, which is spreading through animals and some people. Nearly 70 people in the U.S. have been reported infected with bird flu in the last year, according to […]