Wyoming Police investigate fatal crash
Photo Courtesy of Fox 17 s Daren Bower
Photo Courtesy of Fox 17 s Daren Bower
By: Kellen Voss
and last updated 2021-01-29 17:58:37-05
WYOMING, Mich. â The Wyoming Police Department is investigating a crash that killed one man Friday afternoon.
The crash happened just before 4:30 p.m. in the 4700 block of Clyde Park Ave. SW
According to a department spokesperson a southbound vehicle, driven by a 31-year-old Wyoming man, crossed the center lane and caused a four-car crash.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
There were no other serious injuries.
Due to the on-scene investigation, police are asking drivers to avoid Clyde Park Ave between 44th St. and 52nd St. in the City of Wyoming.
and last updated 2021-01-28 19:37:15-05
BRYAN, TX â As deaths tolls across the state, and country, continue to rise, funeral homes, are reaching their limits doing all they can to keep bodies, out of freezers.
Currently, California is seeing death rates as theyâve never seen before, earlier this month, a Southern California funeral home began asking for volunteer embalmers.
âWe were informed of a funeral home there, that ordinarily, they are a small funeral home, they only require one embalmer. But because of the pandemic now, they have so many loved ones coming into their funeral home, but they are not able to care for them quick enough so what they needed was an embalmer,â says Amanda Valenzuela Gittelman, Managing Partner of Hillier Funeral Homes.
Biden s plan to address climate change could create more jobs in Louisiana
Biden s plan to address climate change could create more jobs in Louisiana
and last updated 2021-01-28 08:47:28-05
LAFAYETTE â President Joe Biden has signed into place a sixty day moratorium which would suspend new drilling permits on U.S. land and waters in hopes to determine any impact on the environment.
Environmental organizer for the Sierra Club Darryl Malek-Wiley tells us, The moratorium effort, along with a number of others, are to take real action on reducing United States greenhouse gas and the impact on climate change.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, oil and gas extracted from public lands and waters account for about twenty five percent of U.S. production annually. The process of removing and burning those fuels generates almost 550 million tons of greenhouse gases every year.
Texas A&M faculty, students react to Diversity Plan accepted by Board of Regents
Texas A&M faculty, students react to Diversity Plan accepted by Board of Regents
and last updated 2021-01-26 19:56:10-05
COLLEGE STATION, TX â The Texas A&M University Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion presented their recommendations to the Board of Regents Monday evening.
While Texas A&M continues inching closer to becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution, former President Michael Youngâs 45-person commission found Texas A&M, falls short, in matching the Stateâs demographic population.
âItâs about time that this acknowledgment has come in terms of the growth of the Latino student population. Weâve known it, I think a lot of people have known it on campus for a long time and so to be able to acknowledge it in such a public way and then commit dollars to it is significant,â says Felipe Hinojosa, a history professor in Latino and Mexican American Stud
Michigan DNR requesting tips on tires dumped in Allegan
Photo courtesy of Michigan DNR s Facebook Page
Photo courtesy of Michigan DNR s Facebook Page
By: Kellen Voss
and last updated 2021-01-25 21:10:02-05
ALLEGAN, Mich. â Allegan County s Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) conservation officers are requesting tips from the public after finding more than 500 tires dumped in several locations in and near the Allegan State Game Area over the past 7 days.
The first pile of more than 300 tires were first discovered on Wednesday by a local resident who walks in the state game area daily.
That resident reported his findings to the DNR s Report All Poaching hotline, and confirmed that the tires covering snowmobile trail #59 were not there two days prior.