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Body Recovered Of Second US Soldier Who Went Missing During Major Military Exercise
A difficult search along Morocco’s rugged Atlantic coast has now reached a heartbreaking end.
The body of Spc. Mariyah Symone Collington, 19, was recovered Tuesday, May 12, from a coastal cave near the Cap Draa Training Area, the US Army said Thursday, May 14.
Spc. Mariyah Collington
US Army
Collington, of Tavares, Florida, located northwest of Orlando, was the second US soldier found after she and 1st Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key Jr., 27, of Richmond, Virginia, went missing during African Lion 26, a multinational military exercise in Morocco.
The recovery ended a mul…
Dramatic Swings Predicted By Farmers’ Almanac In New 2025-26 Winter Forecast
Get ready to bundle up and dig out your snow boots, according to the newly released winter outlook.
The 2025–26 season is shaping up to be a rollercoaster of cold snaps, snowstorms, and dramatic temperature swings, Farmers’ Almanac says in its annual prediction.
The message is clear: winter is coming, and it’s not holding back. The 2025–26 outlook calls for a season marked by “chill, snow, repeat,” with widespread wintry weather and dramatic shifts expected across much of the US.
While winter officially begins with the solstice on Sunday, Dec. 21, the Almanac warns that cold and…
Tropical Storm Ophelia Makes Landfall, Heads North Packed With Heavy Rain, Strong Winds
Tropical Storm Ophelia is heading inland and northward, bringing heavy rainfall, coastal flooding, and strong winds that extend well beyond its center.
Ophelia made landfall near Emerald Isle, North Carolina, on Saturday morning, Sept. 23.
It's packed with 65-mile-per-hour winds and is moving at around 13 mph.
Isolated tornadoes are possible from the system.
"Ophelia will spread drenching downpours, strong gusts, pounding surf, and ocean, sound, and bay flooding northward along the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to New Jersey, southeastern New York, and southern New England…
Tropical System With Drenching Downpours, Dangerous Winds Takes Aim At Region: Here's Timing
A potent storm system currently identified as Potential Tropical Cyclone 16 is headed to the Northeast packed with heavy rain and strong wind gusts.
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The system, which will move into this region overnight Friday, Sept. 22 into Saturday, Sept. 23, and continue well into Saturday evening, "is expected to become a tropical storm and come onshore over North Carolina, then weaken as it makes its way toward our area," according to the National Weather Service.
A t…
White Shark Tracking East After Pinging Off Long Island Coast
A large white shark apparently loves Long Island and New England and has decided to stay awhile.
For the second time in a one-week span, Frosty has pinged in the Atlantic, and it's apparently moving east.
Measuring 9-feet, 2 inches, and weighing 393 pounds, Frosty pinged south of Hampton Bays at around 10:15 p.m. Saturday, May 13, according to the non-profit Ocearch group.
A new ping was reported on Sunday, May 21 at about 4:30 a.m. in between Block Island and Martha's Vineyard. (See the first image above.)
Frosty was first pinned off the coast of Georgia on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2022. …
More To Come? Research Scientists Spell Out Possible Reasons For Increase In Shark Attacks
As the number of shark sightings and attacks increase in waters up and down the Atlantic Coast, research scientists say to expect more and point to climate change, and the rebounding of the shark population as the reasons.
Researchers say shark populations, which declined as much as 90 percent from the 1970s to the 1990s, are now rebounding as the ecosystem resettles, Robert Hueter, the chief scientist of Ocearch, told The New York Times.
But, Hueter also points to climate change at work, saying sharks have moved up the coast to the New York Bight, a wedge formed by the shorelines of Long I…
