Investigating gunshots this morning after they found more than a dozen shell casings. It happened around 7 15 last night in the 1500 block of woodmayr drive. Police say no one was hurt, but bullets hit 2 houses. A waterloo woman is back behind bars this morning. She faces charges for setting a house on fire and stabbing a person inside. The Fayette County Sheriffs Office arrested 20yearold ashley welch on tuesday for violating pretrial supervision. Police say she started a fire at 1006 home park boulevard in waterloo last march. Thats where they found a stabbing victim. She is awaiting trial for firstdegree e son among other charges. Firefighters in Jo Daviess County are investigating a house fire that destroyed the home. Fire crews responded to the area near stockton street and front avevee in stockton, illinois. That was around 2 30 yesterday afternoon. They were on scene for hours battling the fire. No one was hurt. A bill making its way through the legislature would reqeqre drivers
House . Patranya Bhoolsuwan we did see someone leave. And our crew went up and knocked on the door. But no one answered. Authorities also told us to stay off the premises. toss to weather peak gusts today up to 70 in the mountains and 60s in some areas this morning between 10 am to 1 pm today. Highest in kyle canyon and red rock. Summerlin at 60 even later doay with high gusts in Centennial Hills and nellis. Henderson with gusts up to 45 in anthem and seven hills. Wind expected to relax more this the 20s this evening down to the more the teens later evening. Then Single Digits and light by late night. Hour by hour shows temps cooler than yesterday. 63 by 7 pm and 50s through the evening down to 55 by 8 news now at 11. Denise Valdez it seems no one is off limits when it comes to donald trump. Hes now taking on the pope. paul joncich the republican frontrunner called out pope francis. Claiming the holy father called out trump first. While in mexico. The pope said quote a person who think
Good morning. Its thursday, february 18th. Im Amanda Sanchez and im dave lawrence. Its a first alert day. The winter storm dropping snow down to the valley floor but fortunately. Most of the problems seem to be in the mountains. Kolo 8 news nows rebecca kitchen is live from gold ranch where traffic has been stopped since early this morning. Officials with caltrans say interstate 80 at stateline is closed due to severe weather. All vehicles are being turned around at the gold ranch casino exit on i80. They say semi trucks and four wheel drive vehicles are getting stuck in the snow, causing multiple clusters of cars to block sections of the interstate. Its not clear when i80 will be back open. Stay with kolo 8 news now for any updates. A fastmoving, but intense storm system will bring wind, rain, and snow to the area through thursday. Wind will be gusty, especially east of the sierra crest through the evening in the sierra and change over to snow below 7000 after sunset, and around the t
Is now less healthy and, prone to burn again, this growing danger has long been a concern, but its been joined by another. The high desert is home to the sage grouse and it needs sagebrush to survive. Its now also on the verge of earning official threatened species status and that would have far reaching impacts. Keir there is real concern particularly from industrymining, ranchingthat without improvements to the great basin range land health well see reduced activity, less permitting. But keir and others at the Great Basin Institute are testing what may be a Game Changing solution. Researchers in washington discovered a naturally occurring bateria in the soil there that retards root growth in cheat grass and other noxious exotics. Theyre trying to find out if it will work here spraying a small amount of the microbe is sprayed on the soil in test plots. 69yearold Carolyn Batchelor was last seen monday evening in zephyr cove. She is 5feet 7inches tall and weighs about 180 pounds and was
High wind watch in effect for holt county from 6 pm tonight until 6 am friday our warmup resumes today with highs returning to the 40s and 50s maybe a few 60s out west . there will still be a fair amount of cloud cover patchy fog along with a few rays of sunnhine and a briik southhasterly wiid, so it won exactly be the prettiest of days, but hey, warmth is warmth a cold front off to the west will plow through the area tonight which could pop up a rain shower or two and increase shift our winds to the west that could initially gust up to 50 Miles Per Hour late tonight early tomorrow morning keeping lows close to 40 degrees. Friday will bring more warmth, wind and sun pushing highs further into the 50s tt nearr60. Now if i were to choose onn day that stann above the rest of he next seven, it would be saturday because, while it wont be quite as warm as friday, it will be calmer, still mild with a decent amount of sunshine. The rest of the weekend early next week will bring us more mild ai