Extracting ground water for growing urban populations causes half of China's big cities to sink.
Apr. 19—FAIRMONT — Around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night, Fred C. Young, maintenance supervisor, got a phone call that chilled his blood. The roof of the Bauer Building, next to the election center, was gone. Two million dollars worth of voting equipment was stored in the Bauer Building as a thunderstorm battered buildings all over town. Fortunately, when Young arrived it wasn't the Bauer Building ...
Apr. 19—FAIRMONT — Ten minutes before the proverbial buzzer, something went wrong for Marion County Technical Center junior Kristina Jean Spender. She had shrimp sizzling over a butane flame. "Everything was going good," Abby Beveridge, senior, said. "Then the heat started gradually going down and we thought we were out of butane." The first thought in Spender's head was, "dang." She called ...