Month: February 2020

A recent cold snap has resulted in a curious phenomenon occurring on Lake Michigan: the formation of ice volcanoes. Pictures of the occurrence, which show white, cone-like structures on the surface of the lake spewing water out of the top, were shared on social media. The National Weather Service (NWS) Grand Rapids uploaded a snap…

DETROIT – A cold front brought some interesting phenomena to Lake Michigan: first ice balls, now ice volcanoes.  National Weather Service meteorologist Ernie Ostuno captured some amazing photos of erupting ice volcanoes Sunday at Oval Beach in Saugatuck, Michigan. An ice volcano is a cone-shaped mound of ice formed over a lake by the eruption of water and slush through an ice shelf. “Ice volcanoes occur in locations…

RIPLEY, Tenn. (AP) — State prosecutors will be seeking the death penalty in the trial of a Tennessee convict charged with killing a corrections administrator and escaping prison on a tractor. Lauderdale County district attorney Mark Davidson said Tuesday that he has filed a notice of intent to seek death if Curtis Ray Watson is…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — After more than three decades on death row, Don Johnson weighed the options for his own demise: He could keep a promise to his daughter that he wouldn’t die in the electric chair. Or, he could opt for the chair and avoid a method that he had heard might make him…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee inmate Nicholas Sutton was placed on a death watch early Tuesday ahead of his scheduled execution later this week for the decades-old killing of a fellow inmate. Meanwhile, Sutton’s attorneys made two last ditch appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court. One asks the justices to put the execution on hold…

Key point: AIP works well and is arguably more stealthy than nuclear power. If America wants more affordable submarines, it should look into building AIP boats. Over the past decade, air-independent propulsion (AIP) for submarines has spread rapidly around the world. The technology, which allows conventionally powered submarines to operate without access to outside air, has…

The U.S. Navy already was facing a huge shortage of attack submarines. Then came Pres. Donald Trump’s budget proposal for 2021. The Trump administration’s budget, if Congress approves it, would make the shortage worse. Arguably the big winner in Trump’s Navy budget is China, which continues to add to its undersea force as America cuts…

Key Point: London’s Astute class submarines are powerful and very well-built. That is why potential enemies, such as Russia, fears them. Since the commissioning of HMS Dreadnought in 1963, the Royal Navy has maintained a formidable force of nuclear attack submarines. Indeed, HMS Conqueror is the only nuclear attack submarine (SSN) to ever sink an enemy…

A security guard for an apartment complex with Airbnb rental units has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for the 2018 murder of an American tourist. Carla Stefaniak, a Venezuelan-American who lived in Miami, was in San Jose, Costa Rica, celebrating her 36th birthday when she was brutally murdered. On Monday, Bismarck Espinoza Martinez,…

Hunter Biden, son of former vice president Joe Biden, was on the board of a trade group that lobbied the Obama administration for increased U.S. aid to Ukraine, according to a report Tuesday. From 2012 through 2018, the younger Biden served as a director for the Center for U.S. Global Leadership and was connected as…