Bakersfield teen loses hand while playing with illegal fireworks, police say
Bakersfield teen loses hand while playing with illegal fireworks, police sayshuttershock. A 16-year-old boy lost his hand this morning while playing with an illegal firework. The Bakersfield Police Department said the incident happened shortly before 2 a.m. on New Stine Road. The department said the teen had obtained illegal fireworks from a gathering in the area.
Read full storyThese helpful travel sites help you find the cheapest airfares and the best things to do in any city
These helpful travel sites help you find the cheapest airfares and the best things to do in any cityshuttershock. So many travel plans were put on hold over the past year and a half, and that is making this summer a popular time to get away. Here are the travel sites you can rely on for everything from the cheapest flights to the best activities in every city.
Read full storyTravelers head up to the Sierra for California’s 1st holiday weekend with no restrictions
Travelers head up to the Sierra for California’s 1st holiday weekend with no restrictionsshuttershock. The Fourth of July weekend is always a busy travel time, and add in that it’s the first holiday weekend since California reopened, travelers are out in full force.
Read full storyIn Biden's visit to Surfside, a faint ray of hope
As we watch the efforts of search and rescue teams at the site of the collapsed condo building in Surfside, Florida,and catch our breath pondering the unfathomable anguish of the families of the 18 people who have been confirmed dead and those waiting for news about their loved ones entombed in the rubble, the word infrastructure intrudes like a distant, arcane matter. Thoughts of politicians negotiating in Washington are even more unwelcome. But sometimes it takes a disaster to remind us that politics, that government, affects us all in a direct, palpable way.
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