An Oregon climber who was found by a rescue team dog said he survived for 5-days in cold temperatures on a Washington mountain by eating centipedes and bugs. The 27-year-old broke his ankle during the 1-day climb up the 12-thousand-foot Mount Adams. The climber was helicoptered to a Portland hospital where he was initially listed in fair condition.
A Louisiana deputy coroner and others continue to search out caskets that were unearthed from burial plots during Hurricane Ike. About 200-coffins got pulled out of their graves from about 47-cemetaries and about 160-caskets have already been found and reburied. Reburial costs are estimated at 100-thousand-dollars on-top of the recovery bill and not all of the missing caskets are expected to be found.
Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma are considering getting rid of the paper traffic ticket and trading it in for computerized writeups as early as next year. According to the city council, the e-ticket system would cost about 400-thousand-dollars to startup, ...
