Police responded Thursday to a Florida home where officials believe a woman was mauled and killed by her dog.
Lake County emergency medical services and Leesburg Fire Rescue requested police assistance on a medical call. Medical first responders entered the back of the home where Sonda Tyson, 66, was found dead, according to a release.
A person called 911 from the home and reported the victim was bleeding everywhere, had bite marks on her arms and the caller could see Tyson's bones.
Officials said they discovered a brindle pit bull mix, weighing about 100 pounds and covered in blood inside the home. They believe it is likely the reason for the victim's injuries.
The body of an infant dolphin was discovered along the shoreline in Pass Christian Wednesday, marking the eighth baby mammal to wash ashore in the past week.
According to the director of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, Dr. Moby Solangi, the number of infant dolphin standings in 2016 is "more than all of the last two years." Solangi says that in 2015, 35 dead dolphin were found along the Mississippi Coast. Just two days before April in 2016, that number stands at 46.
"The dolphins are on top of the food chains and serve as a biological indicator of the environment. They are the canary in the mine. So whatever happens to them, will ultimately happen to us, so it's very important for us to find out what's going on with these marine mammals," said Solangi.
An earthquake with magnitude 6.2 occurred near Port Heiden,100 kilometers northeast of Chignik Lake, southwestern Alaska.
A strong 6.2 magnitude earthquake shook a lightly populated remote region of southwestern Alaska, the US Geological Survey that monitors quakes worldwide reported.
The quake struck at 0550 GMT on Saturday on the Aleutian arc some 654 kilometers southwest of Anchorage, and 100 kilometers northeast of Chignik Lake, Alaska.
The National Tsunami Warning Center said that no watch, warning or advisory would be issued for the quake.
"A tsunami is NOT expected to be generated by this earthquake," the Center said.
The earthquake epicenter was 58 miles below the surface, the Alaska Earthquake Center reported.
A violent explosion has rocked the centre of Paris, destroying part of a building and sending smoke rising over the French capital.
Officials said at least five people were injured in the blast, which blew out windows in an 100m radius and sent debris raining into surrounding streets.
Residents living nearby in the 6th arrondissement were evacuated after the accident, which may have been caused by a gas cooker according to police sources.
Comment: Not likely! At least, not exclusively.
Kem Phetsomphou said he felt the explosion inside the Tour Montparnasse, formerly France's tallest skyscraper, which overlooks the district.
Comment: The authorities almost instantly reported that it was definitely not the result of a terrorist's bomb. Funny how they can know such things for certain so soon. It's almost like they have mystical powers of foresight...
In any event, we could be looking at an unusual, though natural, cause here.
Note that firefighters had been tackling a fire on the ground floor of the building next door for over an hour before the explosion. This is reminiscent of the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion in 2013.
Unlike that event, however, there was no apparent 'missile' hitting the site from above.
While a gas cooker cannot obliterate an apartment block, a surge of gas and/or power through the mains may have provided some of the additional 'fuel' behind the force of the blast.
Residential and industrial buildings have been exploding all over the place in recent years. It's an interesting 'quirk of history' that terrorism has been rolled out globally, at this time, thus providing a plausible 'explanation' for events that are largely the result of natural changes in our environment - not least, 'Earth opening up' in the form of increased earthquakes, sinkholes and methane outgassing, and 'the sky falling' in the form of increased meteor events and atmospheric electric discharges.
A strong explosion occurred at the volcano Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia on March 31, 2016. Just prior the eruption increased seismic activity was captured by seismometers around the volcano.
The resulting ash column rose 3,500 m to 30,000 ft (9 km) altitude and drifted NW. Ash fall is likely in nearby areas.
The Manizales volcano observatory reported that over the past days, a number of similar, but weaker tremor pulses were recorded at the volcano recently.
When the summit of the volcano was not in clouds, it could be observed that at least some of these weak volcanic earthquakes also produced small to moderate ash emissions.
The volcanic peak Copahue, which sits at the border of Argentina and Chile, erupted today after weeks of gradually increasing activity. NASA astronaut Jeff Williamsposted this photo of the volcano going nuts from the International Space Station, from which the eruption was clearly visible.
The region remained at a Yellow Alert in the days leading up to the eruption. Authorities also reported on March 22 that there was no danger from Copahue's ash emissions to the surrounding population (a rough translation is below):
A strong quake off the coast of Papua New Guinea this morning does not pose a tsunami threat to Hawaii.
The magnitude 6.1 temblor struck 75 miles northeast of Angoram, Papua New Guinea at 9:24 a.m. this morning at a depth of 9.2 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue any advisories for the quake. No injuries were immediately reported.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) says the carcass of a grey whale washed up near Ucluelet on Tuesday night.
Members of the Ucluelet First Nations first reported the carcass washing ashore in the intertidal zone at Wya Point.
It is a juvenile whale and has not been dead for very long. It will be taken away and a necropsy will be performed.
The cause of death is not known at this time, but the DFO says it is common for grey whales to make the journey now from where they winter near the Baja, to Arctic waters in the spring and summer. This whale died in the migration.
Last April, another grey whale washed up near Tofino. It is believe that whale may have collided with a boat.
Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes on Wednesday 30 March 2016 after floods in parts of Galicia, north western Spain.
Sada, a municipality of around 12,000 people in the province of A Coruña, was one of the worst hit areas after heavy rain, overflowing rivers and a high tide combined to flood several areas of the city.
Although exact figures are unavailable, it is estimated that hundreds were forced to evacuate their homes. Emergency teams using 5 rescue boats assisted with evacuations. Those displaced are either staying with friends or relatives, or have been accommodated in nearby hostels, according to a statement from the local government, which is making arrangements for the municipality be declared a disaster area.
Soon after the flooding occurred, the local government issued a statement on 30 March saying that constant rain over the past 24 hours, added to the high tide this morning and the large volume of water in rivers that flow into Sada, flooding has occurred in the city centre, particularly in the areas around Lagoa, rúa Culleredo, rúa Venezuela, Riobao, and O Castro, and the parishes of Mondego and Mosteirón.
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Comment: The authorities almost instantly reported that it was definitely not the result of a terrorist's bomb. Funny how they can know such things for certain so soon. It's almost like they have mystical powers of foresight...
In any event, we could be looking at an unusual, though natural, cause here.
Note that firefighters had been tackling a fire on the ground floor of the building next door for over an hour before the explosion. This is reminiscent of the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion in 2013.
Unlike that event, however, there was no apparent 'missile' hitting the site from above.
While a gas cooker cannot obliterate an apartment block, a surge of gas and/or power through the mains may have provided some of the additional 'fuel' behind the force of the blast.
Residential and industrial buildings have been exploding all over the place in recent years. It's an interesting 'quirk of history' that terrorism has been rolled out globally, at this time, thus providing a plausible 'explanation' for events that are largely the result of natural changes in our environment - not least, 'Earth opening up' in the form of increased earthquakes, sinkholes and methane outgassing, and 'the sky falling' in the form of increased meteor events and atmospheric electric discharges.