| Fox News - Latest Headlines | | | | Oregon adopts California fire tactics, shuts down power | | Sep 12, 2022 | | Oregon utilities shut down power to tens of thousands of customers on Friday as dry easterly winds swept into the region in the hopes that it would lessen the risk of wildfires in extremely dry and hot conditions. Power shut-offs due to extreme fire weather, common in California, are relatively new to the Pacific Northwest. The plans, which were part of permanent rules approved in May to manage wildfire danger in high-risk areas, mark the new reality in a region better known for its rain and temperate rainforests. MOSQUITO FIRE IN CALIFORNIA SPREADS TO OVER 41,400 ACRES, FORCES THOUSANDS TO EVACUATE Portland General Electric halted power to about 30,000 customers in 12 service areas — including the posh West Hills neighborhood of Portland — and Pacific Power shut down service to more than 7,000 customers in a small community on the Pacific Coast, where a wildfire burned two years ago, and in pockets southeast of the state capitol of Salem. Schools in the areas with planned power outages canceled classes and authorities urged residents to charge cellphones and be ready to evacuate at a moment's notice. The winds were whipping up a wildfire southeast of Eugene, Oregon, that had been burning in the wilderness for a month but was now making a run toward the small community of Oakridge, where residents were ordered to evacuate. Gov. Kate Brown declared a fire emergency late Friday for the Cedar Creek Fire as it encroached on the 3,200-person town. Climate change is bringing drier conditions to the Pacific Northwest and that requires strategies that have been common in fire-prone California for the past decade or more, said Erica Fleishman, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University. Wind patterns haven't changed, but those winds are now coinciding more frequently with drier vegetation and hotter temperatures — a toxic mix for fire ignition, rapid spread and extreme fire behavior, she said. "I don’t know whether this is the solution, but it’s an interim effort to manage wildfire risk," Fleishman said. "People are going, ‘Oh my gosh!' The areas we thought were safe, they’re realizing those are not immune to fire anymore. The fire likelihood is changing." OREGON WILDFIRE QUADRUPLES IN SIZE, FORCING MORE THAN 2,000 HOMES TO EVACUATE The proactive power shutoffs were just the second for Portland General Electric ever. The utility shut down power to 5,000 customers in 2020 near Mount Hood during firestorms that ravaged the state. Extreme winds over Labor Day weekend led to wildfires that burned more than 1 million acres, destroyed 4,000 homes and killed at least 11 people — and utilities were blamed for some of those fire starts. Pacific Power, another major utility in Oregon, said the shutoffs Friday were the first the company has ever done. The company put a wildfire mitigation plan in place in Oregon in 2018 that includes studying wind and weather patterns to predict high-risk areas. The utility was sued last year by residents in two towns that burned to ashes in the 2020 wildfires who blamed the company for not shutting down power in advance of the devastating wind storm. Pacific Power has since hired a team of meteorologists to make fire weather forecasts and is spending more than $500 million to "harden" its electric grid in high-risk areas by replacing wooden poles with carbonized ones and encasing power lines and conductor boxes to reduce the chances of a spark, said Drew Hanson, a Pacific Power spokesman. "You can look at the West in general and climate change has impacted areas from Southern California, and then Northern California and now up into this region as well, we're seeing those same conditions," he said. "It’s something we are taking very seriously. We realize the changing landscape. We’ve been changing and evolving along with it." A number of blazes are burning in Oregon and Washington state. COLORADO APARTMENT EXPLOSION LEAVES THREE INJURED, HUNDREDS DISPLACED Just south of Salem, firefighters using at least two planes and a helicopter tried to douse the flames of a wildfire that spread from grass to stands of trees, blanketing parts of the Willamette Valley in smoke. The largest in Oregon is the Double Creek Fire burning in northeastern Oregon near the Idaho border. The fire grew by nearly 47 square miles Wednesday because of wind gusts up to 50 mph (80 kph) and as of Friday had burned a total of nearly 214 square miles. It's threatening about 100 homes near the community of Imnaha. In Central Oregon, the Cedar Creek Fire east of Oakridge has burned nearly 52 square miles. On Friday, officials ordered a level 3 "go now" evacuation for residents of greater Oakridge, Westfir and High Prairie areas due to increased fire activity. The Van Meter Fire, which started Wednesday, is burning on Stukel Mountain about 13 miles southeast of Klamath Falls. One home and four structures have been destroyed and about 260 structures are threatened by that blaze, officials said. The Rum Creek Fire was also burning in southwest Oregon and was almost halfway contained at about 33 square miles. | | | | | | | Suspect dead, officer wounded during Las Vegas foot chase | | Sep 12, 2022 | | Police in Las Vegas say a person was killed and a patrol officer was wounded in an exchange of gunfire during a foot chase following a vehicle stop early Saturday several blocks east of the Strip. Capt. Carlos Hank said the officer was taken to University Medical Center in stable condition after the shooting about 1:15 a.m. near Flamingo Center and University Center Drive. ARIZONA MAN WAVES DOWN A PATROL CAR TO CONFESS HE FATALLY SHOT SOMEONE In a video statement, Hank said one person ran from an SUV that had been stopped by police, and both the officer and suspect were shot during an exchange of gunfire. The suspect was pronounced dead at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, Hank said. Additional details of the encounter — including the identity of the people involved, the number of people in the vehicle and the reason for the traffic stop — were not immediately made public. The shooting was the eighth involving Las Vegas police in 2022, Hank said. | | | | | Marsha Hunt, Golden Age Hollywood star and blacklist victim, dies at 104 | | Sep 12, 2022 | | Marsha Hunt, one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s who worked with performers ranging from Laurence Olivier to Andy Griffith in a career disrupted for a time by the McCarthy-era blacklist, has died. She was 104. Hunt, who appeared in more than 100 movies and TV shows, died Wednesday at her home in Sherman Oaks, California, said Roger Memos, the writer-director of the 2015 documentary "Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity." HOW DID MARILYN MONROE DIE? THE DETAILS BEHIND THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF ONE OF HOLLYWOOD'S MOST FAMOUS FACES A Chicago native, she arrived in Hollywood in 1935 and over the next 15 years appeared in dozens of films, from the Preston Sturges comedy "Easy Living" to the adaptation of Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice" that starred Olivier and Greer Garson. She was well under 40 when MGM named her "Hollywood’s Youngest Character Actress." And by the early 1950s, she was enough of a star to appear on the cover of Life magazine and seem set to thrive in the new medium of television when suddenly "the work dried up," she recalled in 1996. The reason, she learned from her agent, was that the communist-hunting Red Channels publication had revealed that she attended a peace conference in Stockholm and other supposedly suspicious gatherings. Alongside Hollywood stars Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart and Danny Kaye, Hunt also went to Washington in 1947 to protest the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was conducting a witch hunt for communists in the film industry. "I’d made 54 movies in my first 16 years in Hollywood," Hunt said in 1996. "In the last 45 years, I’ve made eight. That shows what a blacklist can do to a career." Hunt concentrated on the theater, where the blacklist was not observed, until she began occasionally getting film work again in the late 1950s. She appeared in the touring companies of "The Cocktail Party," "The Lady’s Not for Burning" and "The Tunnel of Love," and on Broadway in "The Devil’s Disciple," "Legend of Sarah″ and "The Paisley Convertible." Marcia Virginia Hunt (she changed the spelling of her first name later) was born in Chicago and grew up in New York City, daughter of a lawyer-insurance executive and a voice teacher. Slender and stylish, with a warm smile and large, expressive eyes, Hunt studied drama and worked as a model before making her film debut. SOMEONE BOUGHT STEVE MCQUEEN'S CHEVY BLAZER FROM A PENNYSAVER AND NOW IT'S WORTH A FORTUNE An early marriage to director Jerry Hopper ended in divorce. In 1948 she married film writer Robert Presnell Jr., and they had one daughter, who died soon after her premature birth. Her husband died in 1986. Hunt's first movie was 1935′s "The Virginia Judge." She went on to play demure roles in a series of films for Paramount, including "The Accusing Finger" and "Come on Leathernecks," but, as she told The Associated Press in 2020, she was tired of "sweet young things" and begged for more substantial work. Hollywood proved a painful education. In "Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity," she remembered almost getting the part of Melanie Wilkes in "Gone with the Wind," even being assured by producer David O. Selznick. Within days, Olivia de Havilland was announced as the actor who would play Melanie for the 1939 epic. "That’s the day I grew up," Hunt said in the documentary. "That’s the day I knew I could never have my heart broken again by this profession of acting." She left Paramount for MGM around the time of "Gone with the Wind" and had lead or supporting roles in "These Glamour Girls," "Flight Command" and "The Human Comedy" among other movies. "MGM was sheer magic," she recalled in a 2007 Associated Press interview. "When I arrived at the studio for a one-day role, they parked my car. I went on the set and found a director’s chair with a sign on it, ‘Miss Hunt.’ Another sign was on my dressing room. BRITNEY SPEARS SAYS SHE'S 'NOT WILLING' TO SEE SONS UNTIL SHE FEELS 'VALUED' "I said to myself, ‘Any studio that treats a one-day player that way, really knows how to make pictures.’ They won my loyalty." Work unraveled quickly after she openly embraced liberal causes, such as joining the 1947 protest against congressional hearings on the reputed communist influence in Hollywood. "I was never a communist or even interested in the communist cause," she declared in 1996. "I was a political innocent defending my industry." With a couple of exceptions, such as producer Stanley Kramer’s 1952 family comedy "The Happy Time," she was unseen on the big screen for most of the 1950s. She later appeared in many TV series, including "My Three Sons," "Matlock," "All in the Family" and "Murder, She Wrote." She remained vigorous and elegant in old age. In 1993, she put out "The Way We Wore: Styles of the 1930s and ’40s and Our World Since Then," a lavishly illustrated book of the fashions during her Hollywood heyday. A lifelong political activist, Hunt had a brush with terror in 1962 when she took part in a forum on right-wing extremists and two other participants’ homes were damaged by homemade bombs the very same evening. "The ashen-faced actress said her home probably escaped the bomb attack only because the terrorists were unable to find out where she lived," the Los Angeles Times reported. Police were sent to guard her home. More recently, she helped create a refuge for the homeless in Los Angeles’ Sherman Oaks neighborhood, where she lived and was feted with the title honorary mayor. Looking back on her activist years, Hunt remarked in 1996: "I never craved an identity as a figure of controversy. But having weathered it and found other interests in the meantime, I can look back with some philosophy." | | | | | Harry, if you really want to honor your dad, nix your salacious tell-all and rein in your royals-trashing wife | | Sep 12, 2022 | | "We now honor my father in his new role as King Charles III," said Prince Harry in a statement paying tribute to his late, great, grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. Twelve short words, but ones that carry enormous significance coming from the man who has spent the past two years publicly dishonoring his father. A week ago, I was told by someone very close to Charles that he was "deeply hurt and utterly bemused" by his younger son’s behavior towards him. In a series of bitter, angry attacks since quitting the Royal Family and Britain, Harry has accused his father of bad parenting, cutting him off from financial support, and inflicting "genetic pain and suffering" on him which has damaged his mental health. PRINCE WILLIAM, PRINCE HARRY, KATE MIDDLETON AND MEGHAN MARKLE: THE FAB FOUR'S ROCKY RECENT HISTORY He and his wife Meghan have also hurled endless more incendiary bombs at the Royals, branding them a bunch of callous, uncaring racists. Only last week, Meghan was at it again, telling The Cut magazine that "by existing, we were upsetting the dynamic of the hierarchy" and threatening that she had a lot more toxic mud to fling if it suits her. She added that Harry had "lost" his father in the process of leaving the Royal Family, though her aides later said she was in fact talking about her own father Thomas who she’s disowned. But the truth is, Harry has been treating Charles in a similarly dismissive way, making a mockery of the couple’s supposed commitment to "compassion." And he’s written a supposedly "tell-all" book due to be published later this year or early next, in which will reportedly rip into the royals yet again in what Harry says will be a "first-hand account of my life that’s accurate and wholly truthful." Really? Is that the same kind of "accurate and wholly truthful" garbage that he and Meghan spewed to Oprah, much of which has since been proved to be utter nonsense? KING CHARLES III LEADS QUEEN ELIZABETH II'S COFFIN PROCESSION IN SCOTLAND One of Charles’s aides told me several months ago that the Palace is absolutely dreading the book, fearing it will drip with poisonous new allegations and target his wife Camilla as some kind of revenge for her role in the break-up of Harry’s parents’ marriage. That conversation, of course, was before the Queen died and when Charles was just Prince of Wales. But now he’s King, and Camilla is his Queen Consort, and any such attack, coming from the new Monarch’s own son, will thus be devastatingly damaging. As will any further direct criticism of King Charles III himself, or his son and heir William, the new Prince of Wales. Don’t be misled by the scenes of supposed hatchet-burying between William and his brother at the weekend. PRINCE HARRY JOINS ROYAL FAMILY IN SCOTLAND FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II'S DEATH That was a show of forced unity to wrestle media attention back from their rift to their grandmother in the run-up to her state funeral next Monday. All you need to know about how deep their split goes is that when Harry went to Balmoral as the Queen died, and stayed until the following morning, he reportedly had no contact with William the entire time despite them being in the same building. I applaud their temporary truce as a mark of respect for their grandmother, which is something she would have desperately wanted, but I’m not fooled by it. The depth of ill-feeling between them, and their wives, runs very deep. And if this book is as bad as the Palace fears, then all hell will break loose when it’s published, and the ensuing furor could depth-charge King Charles III’s reign before it’s even got going. So, if Harry genuinely wants us to believe he has a desire to "honor" his father, as he said today, then he should tear up his lucrative contract with Penguin Random House and cancel the book. CLICK HERE TO GET THE OPINION NEWSLETTER If he doesn’t understand why, then he should check up ‘honor’ in the dictionary and discover that it means to show "high respect," "great esteem" and "reverence." What part of Harry’s treatment of his father in the past few years has shown any of these things? Instead, he’s shown Charles withering accusatory contempt, and allowed his wife to constantly trash his family and everything they represent, in a way that has attracted endless global negative headlines. Harry should also remind himself what he and Meghan said when they announced their infamous exit from the Royal Family in January 2020 and pledged: "The Sussexes have made clear that everything they do will continue to uphold the values of Her Majesty." Again, really? Queen Elizabeth II espoused values of honesty, integrity, decency, stoicism, resilience, duty, service, humility and selfless devotion to her country. How does any of that sit with the selfish, whiny, money-grabbing and damaging way Harry and Meghan have conducted themselves since then? Their hypocritical exploitation of their royal status for vast personal financial gain, whilst simultaneously rubbishing the institution that bestowed their titles upon them, caused enormous hurt to the Queen in her last few years, especially during the period when her husband Philip was seriously ill and then died, and to the new King. If Harry now goes ahead with this horribly ill-advised book, then he will betray his pledge to his grandmother, and show that his commitment to "honor" his father is just a load more disingenuous hot air from someone who like his wife, loves to preach one thing but practice another. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM PIERS MORGAN | | | | | Charles Payne rips Biden admin's 'ridiculous' claims on loan handout cost: 'Don't have to be rocket scientist' | | Sep 12, 2022 | | FOX Business' ‘Making Money’ host Charles Payne said on "America Reports" Monday that the Biden administration cannot continue to claim that the student loan handout will not increase the deficit. AMERICANS COUNTER CONSUMER PRODUCT 'SHRINKFLATION' WITH NEW SPENDING HABITS, SURVEY SAYS CHARLES PAYNE: This is like a word salad. The White House is saying, you know, if you take into the account that the deficit is going to be less and then you factor in this minus that, it's just so ridiculous. And here's what's so crazy about it: this is not something you have to be a rocket scientist [to understand]. You're going to forgive, quote-unquote, forgive up to one trillion dollars. I mean, that comes from somewhere. You just don't say 'it's not inflationary. It won't add to the deficit.' No, it will add to both of these things. People are going to pay for this in more ways than one. Not only are taxpayer is going to pay for it in nominal dollars, but the inflation rate, people watching this show, things that they own, the things they want to buy. Later on this year, they're going to notice that the prices are going back up again. The main thing we're trying to do in this country right now is get inflation down, which is an arduous task, because while the Federal Reserve is, trying to do that, which is kind of messed up because, listen, the average person out there saying is I don't have a lot of wealth to begin with, why is the Fed trying to take that away from me? Well, you've got the fiscal side. The Biden administration keeps trying its best to pump money into the system. It is absolutely crazy. WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW BELOW: | | | | | NYC 'ducker sauce killer's' wife alleges 'sadistic and violent sexual abuse' in plea to drop gun charges | | Sep 12, 2022 | | If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988. The widow of New York City’s accused "duck sauce killer" is alleging that he raped and beat her for years in a new plea to have weapons charges lodged against her dropped, reports say. Glenn Hirsch, 51, allegedly shot himself to death on Aug. 5 while awaiting trial for the deadly shooting of Chinese food deliveryman Zhiwen Yan, allegedly over an ongoing dispute with the restaurant over duck sauce. His once estranged wife and now widow, Dorothy Hirsch, alleged in new court filings Monday that she was subjected to years of beatings and rape and would not have dared stopped Glenn Hirsch from hiding a trove of weapons inside her apartment, New York Daily News reported. "Glenn’s acts of brutality against Dorothy (before and during their marriage) included sadistic and violent sexual abuse, striking, cutting and menacing her with weapons, punching her, slapping her, threatening to kill her, extortion and contempt," Dorothy Hirsch’s lawyer, Mark Bederow, wrote. NYC ‘DUCK SAUCE KILLER’S' NOTE CLAIMS INNOCENCE, CITES RIKERS ISLAND CONDITIONS AS REASON FOR SUICIDE Dorothy Hirsch said she lived separately from her husband when police executed a search warrant on her apartment and found eight guns stashed in a closet. Bederow wrote that despite prosecutors knowing that "Dorothy was a longtime victim of Glenn’s domestic violence," they green-lit her June arrest. Glenn Hirsch’s record included 10 sealed arrests between 1991 and 2012, mostly relating to alleged violent attacks on his wife, involving one incident where he was accused of holding her captive in a motel room, pistol-whipping and raping her. | | | | | Rare butterfly rebounds in Florida after it was believed to be extinct | | Sep 12, 2022 | | A rare butterfly that was previously believed to be extinct is returning to Florida, according to a report. On Saturday, the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) posted on Facebook about the return of the Atala butterfly, also known as Eumaeus atala. The Atala butterfly appears to be making a comeback because its host plant – the coontie – is becoming more popular in gardens and landscapes, the SCCF explained in a Facebook post. MONARCH BUTTERFLIES ARE OFFICIALLY ON THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST "The coontie is a hardy plant and grows easily without much attention," Sue Ramos, an SCCF Native Landscapes & Garden Center staff member said in a statement. "It can grow well in full sun or full shade and in poor soils, which makes it ideal for use in our sandy soils," Ramos added. SOME ENDANGERED SPECIES BEGIN TO RECOVER, OTHERS DECLINE AS RESTORATION EFFORTS CONTINUE Atala butterflies were believed to be extinct from 1937 until some specimens were found in 1959, according to the Florida Wildflower Association website. More Atala butterflies were found on an island off the coast of Miami in 1979, the website says. The butterfly species has since rebounded. Atala butterflies have black, velvety wings with bright blue or green hues, according to the Florida Wildflower Foundation. The underside of an Atala butterfly’s wing has three rows of blue or green spots and a large red spot on the hind wing, the Florida Wildflower Foundation says on its website. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER | | | | | | | Florida man causes child to overdose on fentanyl in apparent attempt to see if he could pass drug test | | Sep 12, 2022 | | A Florida man was arrested after allegedly causing a child to overdose on fentanyl in an attempt to see if the minor would test positive for the drug during a drug screening. The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office said that 43-year-old Scott Honeycutt called 911 last month to report a juvenile he said was overdosing on an unknown narcotic. When Charlotte County Fire and EMS arrived, Honeycutt and the minor met them at the door and Honeycutt informed officers the juvenile needed Narcan but was unsure what drug the child had taken, according to reporting from WINK. Deputies reported that the victim, whose age and relationship to Honeycutt is currently unknown, appeared pale and lethargic when they arrived. He was taken to the hospital for treatment. During an investigation of the home, police discovered a cut straw and a white powdery substance in the juvenile's room that tested positive for fentanyl. INDIANA POLICE DEPARTMENT WARNS RESIDENTS ABOUT INCREASE IN 'RAINBOW FENTANYL' While the victim told investigators that he had taken the drugs from Honeycutt's work pack that was left on the kitchen counter, the Department of Children and Families, who also investigated the incident, provided the sheriff’s office with a report that said the victim was provided the drugs by Honeycutt in an apparent attempt to see if the minor could pass a drug screening. The victim later changed his statement to say that he took the drugs without Honeycutt's knowledge. Police on the scene attempted to locate Honeycutt's work bag and were unable to find it, while a review of body camera footage showed that the bag was initially located on the kitchen table when officers arrived but was moved while the victim was being attended to. Honeycutt was later pulled over Friday for a stop sign violation and was arrested on charges related to the incident last month. When questioned by police, Honeycutt said he had moved the bag to his car when the victim was receiving treatment from first responders. A search of Honeycutt's car found he was in possession of a bottle containing fake urine, a discovery they said is consistent with Honeycutt's alleged desire to see if the victim would pass a drug test, though Honeycutt continued to deny he knew what drugs the victim had taken. Honeycutt now faces charges of aggravated child abuse and tampering with evidence. He has since been released on a $12,500 bond. The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office did not immediately respond to a Fox News request for comment. | | | | | |
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