Fireworks enthusiasts received a big victory Tuesday on Capitol
Hill. Utah’s House of Representatives passed House Bill 22, a bill
that will lessen Utah’s current firework restrictions and allow
Utahn
Local corporate behemoths Microsoft and Starbucks announced Thursday that they are each pledging 5,000 for this year’s July 4 fireworks show at Lake Union.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
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On Saturday, a resident reported seeing a large display of fireworks like the city would display.
BEEBE, Ark. —New Year’s revelers in a small Arkansas town were enjoying midnight fireworks when they noticed something other than sparks falling from the sky: thousands of dead blackbirds.
The red-winged blackbirds rained out of the darkness onto rooftops and sidewalks and into fields. One struck a woman walking her dog. Another hit a police cruiser.
Birds were “littering the streets, the yards, the driveways, everywhere,” said Robby King, a county wildlife officer in Beebe, a community of 5,000 northeast of Little Rock. “It was hard to drive down the street in some places without running
over them.”
Category : Hartford Courant
BEEBE, Ark. (AP) — New Year’s revelers in a small Arkansas town were enjoying midnight fireworks when they noticed something other than sparks falling from the sky: thousands of dead blackbirds.
Courant.com – Off Beat
A Johnsburg man was killed when a large firework he had lighted exploded in his face and chest at a New Year’s Eve gathering at his northwest suburban home. Robert Freund, 31, died of multiple injuries from the fireworks explosion shortly after midnight, McHenry County Deputy Coroner Robert Locke said. …
Category : Allentown Morning Call
NEW YORK (AP) — Revelers smooched and cheered the famous ball drop in New York’s Times Square as the largest New Year’s Eve celebration in the U.S. ushered in 2011. Most tried to set aside concerns about the worldwide economic downturn as partiers from New Zealand to Asia to Europe toasted to hopes of a more prosperous year to come.
mcall.com – Breaking News

