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Southern california tonight. Entire streets and communities under a blanket of mud, still with dozens still missing. An update tonight on the search. And warmer temperatures coming our way. They will also bring some muchneeded rain. Doug is tracking the timing. News 4 at 11 00 begins with breaking news. And that breaking news tonight involving a deadly crash on a major road in prince georges county. This is branch avenue near st. Barnabas road, right before the marlowe heights shopping center. T...

Wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. The mystery of infinity has intrigued mathematicians for thousands of years. Still, many of the greatest thinkers, from pythagoras to galileo, even the great gauss refused to tackle it, deeming infinity to be unthinkable. But believe it or not, the idea of infinity begins with something as simple as counting and the way in which we measure the world. As humans, we find hints of infinity as soon as we learn to count. Onc...

A college at the University of Cambridge has cut ties with a philosophy fellow who sparked a race row.

Who's moving where?

Latest Farm Productivity Grant is welcome news for farmers

Defra's latest Farm Productivity Grant is set to help farmers wanting to reduce fossil fuel use, improve energy resilience and reduce electric bills.

Galion Police are searching for those who stole a cell phone and wallet and then "racked up more than $2,000 of charges" on the victim's credit card.

Every day is a historic day, as this column will attest. In the world of science, what has happened on this day? Here’s just a glimpse of some of the milestones, big and small, that have occurred on this date. To start things off, here’s a little quiz: What common item found in any toolbox, was patented by Solymon Merrick on August 17 in 1835?

Max Liberson adopts a down at heel Seadog – blown up in a gas explosion – and decides to give the boat a new lease of life

I’ve made mention of this before, but it bears repeating; when I was a little lad growing up in England, it seemed to me that, as soon as two or more adults huddled together, they had only three main topics of conversation. They started with the weather—how it was today, how this compared to the…