FRENCH REFUGEE CAMP CLOSED
TUNNEL CONTAINING NUCLEAR WASTE COLLAPSES
Hundreds of workers at Hanford Nuclear Reservation were evacuated Tuesday after part of a tunnel, which stores rail cars filled with radioactive waste, collapsed.
Officials detected no radiation release, and no workers were in the tunnel when it caved in, said Randy Bradbury, a spokesman for the Washington state Department of Ecology. Around 11 a.m. PT, a robot was being used to sample contamination in the air and on the ground and did not find evidence of a release of contamination.
Hanford contractors working nearby were removed from the area immediately while those farther away on the the 586-squaremile site were told to remain indoors, but by 3 p.m. all non-essential personnel were told they could go home, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
The complex is about half the size of Rhode Island and located along the Columbia River. MAN GUILTY IN 2012 DEATH OF MISSING CALIFORNIA GIRL
A jury has found a man guilty of killing a 15-year-old Northern California girl whose body has not been discovered.
Following the verdict Tuesday, the jury in San Jose will now consider whether to recommend the death penalty for Antolin GarciaTorres for the killing and kidnapping of Sierra LaMar. Sierra disappeared March 16, 2012, on her way to a school bus stop near her home in Morgan Hill, about 25 miles south of San Jose.
Police arrested Garcia-Torres, 26, two months later after investigators found his DNA — taken during a previous assault arrest — in her handbag. They also found Sierra’s DNA in his red Volkswagen Jetta and one of her hairs on a rope found in the trunk of his car. ALSO ...
uPresident Trump will wait until after a late May summit to decide whether the United States will pull out of the landmark Paris climate change agreement, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday. Trump had hoped to announce a decision by the Group of Seven nations summit May 26-27 in Sicily, Italy, but Spicer said it has now been put off.
massive, fast-moving wildfire continues to rage along bonedry portions of the Florida/Georgia border Tuesday. The West Mims Fire, as it’s known, was caused by a lightning strike more than a month ago and has forced the evacuation of residents in southern Georgia as smoke billows into northern Florida.