Investigators say 30-year-old Michelle Wilcox died when her boyfriend's pit bull mauled her at his home, near Newington, while he was at work.
Investigators in the area are calling it one of the most tragic situations they've ever seen. Around 6 p.m. Monday night, they got the 911 call of a dead person at the home on Jenkins Lane.
They found a horrific scene, the woman dead from a dog attack.
"We may never know why. The dog was raised from a puppy in the house. Always inside. She came home and let it out and seemed to be doing the normal routine. The dog just attacked. Not sure we'll ever know why," said Screven County Sheriff Mike Kile.
Investigators say none of the dogs in the home had any known history of viciousness or aggression.
The dog was put down by the owner immediately following the discovery of the attack.
Investigators believe they'll have the case wrapped up later this week.
Klyuchevskoy volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East has spewed ash up to 7.5 kilometers in the air, the Kamchatka department of Russian Academy of Sciences' Geophysical Service told TASS on Wednesday.
"According to satellite images, the ash column was as high as 7.5 km above the sea level. Ash is carried to the north-east. The concrete size of the ash plume is unknown since a large area near the volcano is covered in thick clouds," the Geophysical Service said.
No reports have been made yet about volcanic ash eruptions in settlements of the Ust-Kamchatsky district, where the volcano is located.
If you are over the age of 35 you have seen the progression of bait and switch scary gasses and effects of human influence on our planet. First it was CO2 but none of the models happened in accordance with projections, so it had to be sped up with Methane as the new scary gas. That didn't materialize either so the new "Super Green House" Gas HFC's, Hydroflurocarbons are being unveiled. All the while time runs out as imminent global cooling approaches.
At least 6 are believed to have the virulent intestinal form of the disease from which one boy has already died.
Today 90 people, including 54 children, are in hospital following the anthrax emergency on the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia. The 20 confirmed cases is a dramatic rise on yesterday's figure of eight.
Numbers of those in hospital also exceed the total of 64 herders and their families who were at the apex of the infection, suggesting that the 'at risk' circle is now wider than the nomads at a camp at Yar-Sale in Yamalski district where the disease was identified.
Russia's chief epidemiologist Lyudmila Volova said today: '20 people of 90 hospitalised have contracted anthrax. Two-thirds of them have the skin form of the disease, which is most straightforward to cure. The others have more complicated intestinal form.'
The medical crisis was caused after reindeer became contaminated with zombie anthrax bacteria which had been frozen in the Siberian permafrost.
Experts say the anthrax was embedded in a human or reindeer corpse, and that unusually hot summer weather in this Arctic location, awoke the deadly infection which had been dormant since at least 1941, when the last outbreak occurred.
Mexico's national disaster prevention agency says the Popocatepetl volcano has spewed ash over Mexico City and neighbouring areas.
The agency says the volcano erupted for about ninehours, until 3 a.m.
Mexico City residents awoke Monday to cars coated in a light dusting of ash. The disaster agency's monitoring cameras showed glowing rocks shot from the volcano's crater landing more than a half-mile (1,000 metres) down its slope.
About 25 million people live within 62 miles (100 kilometres) of the crater of the 17,797-foot (5,426-meter) stratovolcano. It's been periodically erupting since 1994.
Tropical Storm Earl has formed in the Caribbean Sea, the first Atlantic basin named storm since late June.
Earl will track toward Belize and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where strong winds and heavy rainfall will be threats late Wednesday into Thursday. Current indications are that the chance of a direct impact on the U.S. from Earl is low.
Earl was named late Tuesday morning after a Hurricane Hunter reconnaissance mission found that an area of low pressure had formed.
Tropical storm warnings and hurricane watches have been issued for parts of the Yucatan Peninsula, from Punta Allen, Mexico, to the Belize/Guatemala border. A tropical storm warning is also in effect for Honduras from Cabo Gracias a Dios westward to the Honduras/Guatemala border, including the Bay Islands.
This system has already been impactful the last few days prior to being named Earl. Six people were killed in the Dominican Republic Sunday into Monday as this system passed near the island.
A Durham man and father of three said he thought he was going to die when he mistakenly drove into a massive weather-related sinkhole on Glenn Road in Durham on Sunday night.
Robert Belcher said he thought he saw water on the road and assumed it was a puddle. He slowed to cross it.
"It was not a puddle, but I didn't know until I was in it. My truck had already went down and it started flipping," Belcher said.
Authorities shut down a portion of Glenn Road between Club Boulevard and Bundy Avenue around 10 p.m. to steer traffic away from the large sinkhole, which stretches from one side of the road to the other and is estimated to be 10 to 15 feet deep.
Javier Rosales saw Belcher's crash. He was in the area because he had also hit the sinkhole. "When I tried to stop it was too late," Rosales said. "I bumped my tires and my axle flew out."
A sinkhole filled with water appeared in the backyard of a house in Australia on Tuesday. House owners Lynn and Ray McKay woke up to find the small hole after being informed by a neighbour of its existence in the Queensland state town of Ipswich. The sinkhole with swirling water got wider gradually, swallowing part of the yard, and increasing to about eight metres (26.2 feet). An old mine shaft could have been the cause of the sinkhole.
Wildfires were burning Monday in seven Western U.S. states, from California's famed Big Sur region to tribal towns and hamlets near Reno, Nevada. Evacuations were ordered in Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Wyoming and firefighters were trying to stop a Washington blaze from reaching a thickly forested security zone at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
Here's a look at some of the fires:
California
Higher humidity and lower temperatures on Monday helped firefighters battle a destructive fire that has scorched more than 63 square miles near the scenic Big Sur coast, while firefighters in Central California faced blistering heat as they worked to contain a blaze that burned rural homes and forced hundreds of evacuations near the small Fresno County town of Prather.
A layer of ocean air that arrived in the mountainous Big Sur region was credited for the better firefighting conditions in an area where a fire that started July 22 has destroyed 57 homes and 11 outbuildings and is threatening 2,000 more structures. A bulldozer operator working for the firefighting operation died in an accident last week.
The blaze near Prather damaged an undetermined number of 400 evacuated homes just outside the Sierra National Forest, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said.
That fire started Saturday and by Monday had grown to nearly 3 square miles with just 15 percent of it cut off by firefighters from burning further.
Several lightning-sparked wildfires grew in grasslands and brush in northern Nevada on Monday, where officials said about 800 firefighters were trying to contain a 78-square-mile fire near a tribal town and rural hamlets west of Pyramid Lake.
Another 300 firefighters were trying to prevent a nearly 8-square-mile wildfire from reaching a state highway in the remote and scenic Poodle Mountain Wilderness Study Area about 50 miles farther north.
In eastern Nevada, firefighters had about half of a 1.3-square-mile wildfire contained on public rangeland about 95 miles northeast of Las Vegas, Bureau of Land Management spokesman Chris Hanefeld said.
Near the largest fire, about 600 residents were allowed to return to the Pyramid Lake shoreline community of Sutcliffe after utilities were restored. They had been evacuated over the weekend, along with 200 people in beach areas. The lake remained closed to the public for boating, camping and recreation, said Scott Carey, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal business manager.
The fire destroyed six houses and mobile homes, two vehicles and several out-buildings at historic Hardscrabble Ranch, and the Tribal Council issued a disaster declaration late Saturday to obtain resources from state and federal agencies, Carey said.
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