PHOENIX (AP) — The season’s first heat wave is already baking the Southwest with triple-digit temperatures as firefighters in Phoenix — America’s hottest big city — employ new tactics in hopes of saving more lives in a county that saw 645 heat-related deaths last year. Starting this season, the Phoenix Fire Department is immersing heatstroke victims in ice on the way to area hospitals. The medical technique, known as cold-water immersion, is familiar to marathon runners and military service members and has also recently been adopted by Phoenix hospitals asRead More

Florence, Italy — Amanda Knox, the American student who spent nearly four years in an Italian prison after being convicted in 2007 of murdering her college roommate Meredith Kercher before being cleared more than a decade later, was re-convicted Wednesday of slander for wrongly accusing a bartender she had worked for at the time of the killing. A court in Florence found that Knox had wrongly accused the innocent Congolese man of Kercher’s murder, but the American will not serve more jail time in Italy as her new three-year sentence has alreadyRead More

Republican lawmakers in Arizona voted on Tuesday to put a ballot measure before voters in November that would make unlawfully crossing the border from Mexico a state crime. The proposal would give local police officers the power to arrest and jail unauthorized migrants, and would allow state judges to order deportations. While immigration is the focus of campaigns across the country, the measure in Arizona is significant because it places the border crisis directly onto the ballot in a swing state that is seen as crucial in the presidential race.Read More

The Kilauea volcano, one of the most active in the world, began erupting on Monday in an area that last erupted a half-century ago, according to the US Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. The fissure system spewing lava extends approximately .6 miles (1 km) in length. The USGS described the eruption as having a ‘low in eruptive volume’ and taking place in a remote location, posing no immediate threat to human life or critical infrastructure. Source link royswire.comThroughout his career, Roy Swire has remained true to his roots, using hisRead More