Monday, December 21, 2015
Gas prices falling
CAMARILLO, Calif.
The price of gasoline nationwide keeps dropping.
Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday that the average price of regular gas fell 4 cents in the past two weeks, to $2.06 per gallon. That’s the lowest price since April 2009.
Lundberg says the drop is due to another nosedive in the cost of crude oil and that prices may continue to fall.
In the Lower 48 states, the highest average price of regular gasoline is in Los Angeles, at $2.71, while Tulsa, Okla., has the lowest, at $1.72.
Carter announces death of grandson
PLAINS, Ga.
Two weeks after making the cheerful announcement that there was no remaining sign of cancer on his brain, former President Jimmy Carter shared much more somber news Sunday with his church family in Plains.
His grandson, 28-year-old Jeremy Carter, had died just hours earlier.
The 91-year-old Carter arrived about 25 minutes late for his regular Sunday School class at Maranatha Baptist Church – the first time he’d ever been tardy, he said – and offered a surprising amount of insight into his family’s heartbreak before delivering his previously planned lesson.
Carter told the crowded church that his grandson hadn’t been feeling well Saturday and took a nap at his family’s home in Peachtree City. His mother checked on him later and found that his heart had stopped.
He died early Sunday at the hospital. The cause of death was unknown.
Slovenian voters reject gay marriage
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia
Slovenians rejected same-sex marriage by a large margin in a referendum Sunday, according to near-complete results, in a victory for the conservatives backed by the Catholic Church in the ex-communist EU nation.
The results released by authorities show 63.5 percent voted against a bill that defines marriage as a union of two adults, while 36.5 percent were in favor.
11 taken to hospital after car hits people on Las Vegas Strip
las vegas
Authorities said 11 adults were taken to a trauma center after a car ran into pedestrians Sunday night on the Las Vegas Strip.
Danita Cohen, spokeswoman for University Medical Center in Las Vegas, said the crash victims were brought to its trauma center. No conditions were immediately available.
KSNV-TV said the crash occurred in front of the Paris Hotel & Casino and Planet Hollywood on South Las Vegas Boulevard, north of Harmon Avenue.
The station said a woman, the purported driver in the crash, was undergoing a field sobriety test.
91 missing in landslide in China
SHENZHEN, China
At least 91 people were missing today, a day after a man-made mountain of excavated soil and construction waste buried dozens of buildings when it swept through an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
The official Xinhua news Agency said the landslide buried or damaged 33 buildings in the industrial park in Shenzhen, a major manufacturing center in Guangdong province across the border from Hong Kong that makes products used around the world from cellphones to cars.
The Ministry of Land and Resources said the debris originated with a steep, man-made mountain of dirt, concrete chunks and other construction waste that had been piled up against a 330-foot-high hill over the past two years.
Combined dispatches