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Dark Skies, Bright Streaks: Perseid Meteor Shower Starts With Spectacular Peak Coming
A stunning spectacle is beginning to stir just as the summer night sky offers a timely assist.
The moon turns new on Tuesday, July 14, creating dark conditions as Earth enters the outer edge of the Perseid meteor shower's debris stream, according to Space.com. A few early streaks could become visible that night.
The shower's formal activity period runs from Friday, July 17, through Monday, Aug. 24, the International Meteor Organization said. Rates will begin to rise slowly over the coming weeks.
The main event is expected overnight from Wednesday, Aug. 12, into Thursday, Aug. 13. That afte…
Off-Duty CT Police Officer, Passenger Mom Of 3 Killed In Head-On Motorcycle Crash
An off-duty Bridgeport police officer and his passenger were killed when their motorcycle collided head-on with a Jeep, leaving the other driver hospitalized with serious injuries.
Cooper Whiteside, 38, of Danbury, and Brittany Islami, 34, of New Milford, died in the 2:45 a.m. Monday, July 13, crash on Sugar Hollow Road in Danbury, according to police.
Danbury officers arrived to find Whiteside, who was riding the Harley-Davidson, and Islami dead in the roadway. The Jeep Compass sustained severe front-end damage. Firefighters extricated the SUV driver, who was rushed to Danbury Hospital wit…
Virginia Boy Airlifted After Tree Branch Shatters Skull, Breaks Spine During Backyard Play
He wasn't climbing the tree. He was just playing beneath it.
That's when a massive tree branch came crashing down, striking 5-year-old Declan Amburgey in the head and turning an ordinary afternoon in his Virginia backyard into a fight for recovery.
The accident happened on Wednesday, July 8, when the force of the falling branch left Declan unconscious and unresponsive, according to a fundraiser launched on behalf of his family.
His mother, Michelle, called 911.
Within minutes, Declan was airlifted to a trauma center.
Doctors discovered two skull fractures, a severe hematoma, compression …
