via CNN:
Hurricane Lane brings 19 inches of rain to parts of Hawaii:
More than 19 inches of rain fell on a northeastern section of Hawaii’s Big Island during a 24-hour period, the National Weather Service said.
The outer bands of the
Category 3 cyclone pummeled Big Island on Thursday, triggering landslides and causing flooding that forced officials to close some roads.
The center of the storm — which could become the first major cyclone to make landfall in the state in 26 years — is expected to move very close to the main islands or cross land through Friday, the
Central Pacific Hurricane Center said.
Mollie Tibbetts autopsy finds that she died by ‘multiple sharp force injuries:
Tibbetts, a 20-year-old student at the University of Iowa, went missing after an evening jog on July 18, sparking an extensive month-long search in the region. A body that officials believed to be hers was found on Tuesday in a rural area, hidden under corn stalks, and the autopsy confirmed her identity.
“Sharp force injuries” are those caused by pointed or sharp-edged objects, such as in stab wounds, incised wounds and chop wounds,
according to the medical news site Medscape.
Tibbetts’ funeral has been scheduled for Sunday afternoon, according to a release on the Smith Funeral Home and Cremation Service website. The Mass of Resurrection will be held at the gymnasium of the BGM High School in Brooklyn, Iowa.
More than 500 sick from outbreak linked to McDonald’s salads:
All of the illnesses have been confirmed with lab tests. Twenty-four of those individuals have been hospitalized.
The illnesses began between May 20 and July 21, according to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Illnesses have been reported in 16 states. The states are Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin and New York.
No amount of alcohol is good for your overall health, global study says:
Alcohol was the leading risk factor for disease and premature death in men and women between the ages of 15 and 49 worldwide in 2016, accounting for nearly one in 10 deaths, according to the study
, published Thursday
in the journal The Lancet.
For all ages, alcohol was associated with 2.8 million deaths that year.
Those deaths include alcohol-related cancer and cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, intentional injury such as violence and self-harm, and traffic accidents and other unintentional injuries such as drowning and fires.
Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco weigh in on end of ‘Big Bang Theory’:
The actor, who won four Emmy Awards for his role as Sheldon Cooper, wrote that he feels “very fortunate that we have another 23 episodes to shoot this season because I am hopeful that with each and every one, my level of REALLY accepting this fact will sink in.”
Warner Bros. Television, which produces “The Big Bang Theory,” and CBS announced on Wednesday the comedy would come to a conclusion in 2019.
According to
Entertainment Weekly, the decision was a result of Parson’s desire to walk away from the series.
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