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Tropical Storm Sara pounds Central America with torrential rains as forecasters warn of life-threatening flash flooding
Tropical Storm Sara scraped along northern Honduras’ Caribbean coast early Friday, dumping torrential rains across parts of Central America and southern Mexico after making an initial landfall overnight. Sara hit land about 105 miles west-northwest of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Honduras-Nicaragua border, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. That is…
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Feds warn against bed rails, citing 18 deaths since 2021
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday issued an urgent warning about portable adult bed rails, saying the devices are behind the suffocation deaths of 18 people since 2021. The agency’s safety alert coincided with the ninth recall of portable bed rails in three years. Medical King of Brooklyn, New York, is recalling about…
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40 monkeys escape South Carolina research facility; police warn residents to secure doors and windows
How monkey research survived Hurricane Maria How monkey research survived Hurricane Maria 06:07 Authorities in South Carolina have warned residents to lock their doors and windows after 40 monkeys escaped from a research facility Wednesday night. The primates broke loose from a Alpha Genesis facility in Beaufort County and traps have been set up and…