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Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) officials repeatedly misrepresented accounts of the executions they carried out in 2020 and 2021, providing sanitized descriptions of the executions that omitted all references to dramatic body movements and signs of distress observed by media witnesses, according to an Associated Press report. The sworn accounts by executioners, which federal prosecutors provided to an expert witness and to a federal district court judge to defeat the prisoners’ court claims that the execution process was excruciatingly painful and unconstitutionally cruel, deviated signifi...

The rebuilding of sewer pipes and water lines underground generally don't stir most people's imaginations - but the City of Thunder Bay hopes what is on top of those lines will help revitalize the urban north core.

Fifty Years Ago, A Major Earthquake Shifted the Course of Seismology in SoCal February 9, 2021Caltech The 1971 San Fernando quake led the USGS and Caltech to join forces, expanding seismic monitoring through the region February 9 marks 50 years since the devastating 1971 San Fernando earthquake that rocked Los Angeles. The magnitude-6.6 temblor was the worst the region had experienced for decades. But out of the tragedy came a period of tremendous advances in earthquake science and also in increasing public safety during earthquakes in Southern California. Just seconds after 6 a.m. on Februar...

Tell us your memories of the 1971 Sylmar earthquake [Los Angeles Times] Southern California is earthquake country. But few temblors did more to raise awareness of the seismic dangers we face than the 1971 Sylmar quake. It was the first destructive quake since the 1933 Long Beach temblor and came at the zenith of the region’s postwar suburban boom. The San Fernando Veterans Administration Hospital, built in 1925, disintegrated into a pile of rubble. Nearby, in Sylmar, the first floor of the newly built six-story Olive View Hospital was pulverized. A line of Los Angeles County ambulances was ...

In an area where outdoor recreation has a high profile, not all residents get to take part in those activities associated with an active life in the mountains.