HAILEY, Idaho (CBS 2) — The Bureau of Land Management has closed about 128,000 acres of public lands in Blaine County due to the ongoing Sharps Fire.
The closure goes into effect immediately.
“The BLM works to promote public and firefighter safety—the weather conditions and fire behavior on the Sharps fire simply call for restricting visitors to this area for the time-being,” said Shoshone Field Manager Codie Martin. The affected areas include lands east of Highway 75, south of East Fork Road and then south of the Sawtooth National Forest boundary, west of Fish Creek Road and north of Highway 20 and east of Gannett Road. Read More...
The Chinese economy’s debt ratio reached a record high in the first quarter of the year, with bank loans to companies surging as the nation reopened from Covid Zero.
The macro leverage ratio — or total debt as a percentage of gross domestic product — soared to 279.7% in the first quarter, according to central bank and statistics bureau data compiled by Bloomberg. That was an increase of 7.7 percentage points from the previous quarter, the biggest jump in three years. Read More...
Unsettling footage obtained by NBC News shows the moments leading up to the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The video, taken by Scott's wife, does not clearly show the exact moment he was shot by police on Tuesday. Scott is seen on the ground surrounded by police officers moments after the shots were fired.
"He better not be f---ing dead, he better not be f---ing dead," Read More...
