HEAVY RAINS FLOOD CANADA
4 DEAD AFTER CAR COLLIDES WITH CHICAGO TRANSIT BUS
Four people were killed early Sunday morning after a Chicago Transit Authority bus and a car collided on the city’s Near West Side, according to police.
Police said the head-on collision occurred just before 6 a.m., blocks away from the United Center, the stadium that is home to the Chicago Bulls and Chicago Blackhawks. Ages and genders of the dead — all of whom were in the car — were not immediately available.
The vehicle was driving westbound on the 2600 block of West Madison Street at high speeds and struck a parked car just before colliding with the bus, which was traveling in the opposite direction, according to Officer Michelle Tannehill, a Chicago Police Department spokeswoman.
3 WWII BOMBS DEFUSED AT GERMAN CONSTRUCTION SITE
About 50,000 people are heading back to their homes in the northern German city of Hannover after bomb-disposal experts defused three World War II bombs discovered at a construction site.
Officials initially suspected there were five bombs but investigation of what were suspected to be bomb sites in a nearby park turned up nothing.
About 1,000 people used shelters provided by officials during the nine-hour evacuation Sunday. City museums dropped their admission charge and community centers organized events for children and seniors.
FIRE CONTINUES TO SPREAD IN GEORGIA WILDLIFE REFUGE
Firefighters were battling Sunday to prevent a fire in a southern Georgia wildlife refuge from spreading, authorities said.
The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge said in a statement that “extremely dangerous burning conditions persist” and that 11,000 acres have been consumed by fire in the past two days. About 79 people have been evacuated from the unincorporated community of St. George. Wind gusts and dry conditions were raising the risk of the fire spreading.
The fire in total has burned 129,856 acres and wind gusts and dry conditions were raising the risk of the fire spreading, the statement said.
Some 535 personnel had been assigned to fight the fire, along with 10 helicopters, 55 wildland fire engines, bulldozers and other equipment, the statement said. The fire is 12% contained.