BLOWOUT CAUSES FATAL BUS CRASH, OFFICIALS SAY
» Authorities . . said a blown tire on a semitruck is to blame for a headon crash that killed at least four people and injured others aboard a commercial passenger bus.
New Mexico State Police say the semi was headed east when one of its tires blew, sending the rig across the median and into oncoming traffic where it slammed into the Greyhound bus.
Police say bus passengers were transported to hospitals with serious injuries. They could not immediately say how many people were injured.
A motorist who came upon the scene described it as chaotic as passengers were on the ground and people were screaming.
French actor Depardieu is subject of rape complaint.
» Prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation of a woman’s rape and sexual assault accusations against actor Gerard Depardieu, a French judicial official said Thursday. A lawyer said the French film star denies the allegations. The official said a woman filed a complaint against the French film star Monday near AixenProvence.
10 injured after explosion, roof collapse at plant.
» Ten people were seriously injured Thursday when an explosion caused a section of roof to collapse at a Chicago water reclamation plant, trapping two of the injured people inside, authorities said.
Firefighters pulled one person out shortly after the collapse at the onestory brick building on Chicago’s far South Side. It took about two hours to rescue the second person, who was “entombed” by debris, Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago said.
Man charged with making death threats over Trump editorials.
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The Boston Globe’s coordinated editorial response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the news media was arrested Thursday on charges he threatened to kill the newspaper’s journalists, who he called an “enemy of the people,” federal prosecutors said.
Robert Chain’s threatening phone calls to the Globe’s newsroom started immediately after the Globe appealed to newspapers across the country to condemn what it called a “dirty war against the free press,” prosecutors said. He is charged with making 14 calls in all, between Aug. 10 and Aug. 22.
Judge blocks first grizzly hunts in decades in Lower 48.
» A MON T. judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the opening of the first grizzly bear hunts in the Rocky Mountains in more than 40 years, as he considers whether the government was wrong to lift federal protections on the animals.
U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen’s order came just two days before Idaho and Wyoming prepared to open the first grizzly bear hunting seasons in the Lower 48 states since 1974.
The order will remain in effect 14 days.
“The threat of death to individual bears posed by the scheduled hunts is sufficient” to justify a delay in the state’s hunting seasons, Christensen said.
The move marked a victory for wildlife advocates and American Indian tribes that sued over the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser vice’s decision in 2017 to lift protections for 700 grizzly bears around Yellowstone National Park.
“We’re thrilled,” said Mike Garrity, executive director for plaintiff Alliance for the Wild Rockies. “Now the judge has time to rule without grizzly bears being killed.”