Two people were killed and multiple others were injured Monday in a gas explosion at a site in rural northeastern Texas, authorities said. The Collin County Sheriffs Department said in a tweet that the incident happened in Farmersville, Texas, located about 45 miles northeast of Dallas.
Local police and firefighters, Texas state troopers and the FBI were on the scene to investigate the explosion; they confirmed the scene was safe but urged residents to stay away. Aerial television footage showed the explosion site to be gas pipeline station. Contractors for Atlas Energy were at the station servicing the pipeline when the explosion happened, according to Farmersville police officials.No other information was immediately available on the incident as of press time.
Kelsea Ballerini has announced her first-ever collection of poems, called Feel Your Way Through, which will be published in November.
The new book of poetry finds Kelsea navigating her way through youth and into womanhood, with Kelsea explaining: “I’ve realized that some feelings can’t be turned into a song, so I’ve started writing poems. Just like my songs, they talk about what it’s like to be twenty-something trying to navigate a wildly beautiful and broken world.”
An audio version of Feel Your Way Through will simultaneously be released by Penguin Random House Audio. Feel Your Way Through will be out in hardcover on November 16.
Sam Hunt previewed an unreleased track on Instagram, tentatively titled “Came The Closest,” described as an emotional ballad. Hunt posted the audio clip along with the caption: “This is a rough acoustic demo of a new song called “Came the Closest”
Hunt’s last full-length album, Southside, was released in April 2020, containing his hit songs “Hard To Forget” and “Breaking Up Was Easy In The 90”. Throughout the year, he continued working in the studio, despite having to cancel his 2020 tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, he’s been teasing new music as well, including this latest snippet. Take a listen to the sample of Came The Closest: here.
Jonny Lee Miller has been cast in Netflix’s “The Crown” portraying British politician John Major, who led the country from 1990 to 1997. News of Miller’s casting was announced on The Crown‘sTwitter account.
Miller joins a lineup including Imelda Staunton taking over from Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth, Lesley Manville swapping shoes with Helena Bonham-Carter as Princess Margaret, Dominic West replacing O’Connor as Prince Charles, Elizabeth Debicki replacing Corrin’s Princess Diana and Jonathan Pryce taking over from Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip.
Season 5 of The Crown is due to begin shooting next month.
Just days after Britney Spears made an emotional plea to a Los Angeles judge to terminate her conservatorship, her younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears broke her silence, saying that she wants nothing but happiness for her sister and that she always has and “always will” support Britney.
Jamie Lynn said in the video message shared Monday to her Instagram stories, “I just want to take a second to address a few things. The only reason I hadn’t before is because I felt like until my sister was able to speak for herself and say what she felt she needed to say publicly that it wasn’t my place and it wasn’t the right thing to do. But now that she’s very clearly spoken and said what she needed to say, I feel like I can follow her lead and say what I feeI I need to say.”
Jamie Lynn continued by saying she had made a “very conscious choice” to “only participate” in Britney’s life as a sister, adding “my sister knows I love and support her… I’m not my family. I’m my own person. And I’m speaking for myself.” Jamie Lynn also said she’s “very proud” of Britney for speaking up and that she has always supported her and her happiness: “Maybe I didn’t support the way the public would like me to with a hashtag on a public platform but I can assure you that I support my sister long before there was a hashtag and I’ll support her long after.”
The statement from Jamie Lynn comes less than a week after Britney spoke publicly during a court hearing, addressing her conservatorship and how she hopes it is terminated.
We are struggling through another hot and humid stretch in Maine. Here are a list of cooling centers throughout the state including in central Maine in Auburn, Topsham and Richmond.
President Joe Biden has directed airstrikes on Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region in response to unmanned aerial vehicle attacks.
Sunday that U.S. military forces conducted the “defensive precision airstrikes” against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the region on Sunday evening. Kirby, who stressed the U.S. strikes were legal and in self-defense, said, “the targets were selected because these facilities are utilized by Iran-backed militias that are engaged in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks against U.S. personnel and facilities in Iraq. Specifically, the U.S. strikes targeted operational and weapons storage facilities at two locations in Syria and one location in Iraq, both of which lie close to the border between those countries. Several Iran-backed militia groups, including Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) and Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS), used these facilities.”
The airstrikes come at a time of heightened tension between the U.S. and Iran, as the two nations hold talks on returning Tehran to the 2015 nuclear deal. Biden declined to comment to reporters on the latest airstrikes after returning to the White House Sunday evening from a weekend at Camp David, telling reporters: “I’ll talk to you tomorrow.”
Nine people have been confirmed dead in the aftermath of the collapse of a 12-story condominium complex in Surfside, Florida three days ago.
Miami-Dade Mayor Danielle Levine Cava announced during a Sunday morning news conference in Seaside, that four additional bodies had been recovered from the rubble and one person had died at a hospital after four bodies had previously been recovered from the scene. The remains of four had been identified early Sunday, according to Miami Dade Fire Rescue, and Levine Cava said they have notified next of kin.
At least 152 people remained unaccounted for and 134 others were accounted for as crews continue to search after more than half the building, about 55 units, collapsed. Levine Cava added that families of those announced dead or unaccounted for will be allowed to visit the site, ad said officials are having “very frank conversations” with the families about the possibility of finding no more survivors.
Crews have been searching through the rubble since the sudden collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers in Surfside, about 3 miles north of Miami Beach. The City of Miami Beach declared a state of emergency on Sunday noting that Champlain Towers is “steps away from the city’s northernmost border” with Surfside. Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said residents in the condominium’s sister building would be provided support to relocate in light of the collapse.
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During a broadcast of the Grand Ole Opry, Trisha Yearwood declared “love is love” and joined country artist, and open member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Brooke Eden on the Opry stage. The two artists then performed Yearwood’s “She’s In Love With The Boy” but with a shift in the lyrics to fit Eden’s love story with her partner Hilary Hoover.
In the video recording, shared by the Grande Ole Opry on social media, you can hear Yearwood and Eden sing the iconic song together. Fans on Twitter shared their excitement for the historic moment, and Brooke Eden herself tweeted that the night was “a dream.”
Luke Bryan is previewing his upcoming IMDb TV Original docuseries titled Luke Bryan: My Dirt Road Diary. The trailer for the five-part docuseries offers a glimpse into Bryan’s life through original home videos, interviews, and personal footage. Bryan’s wife Caroline Boyer is also included in the trailer for the docuseries.
The docuseries also touches on the tragedies Bryan and his family have had to endure over the years, including the loss of his older brother Chris, older sister Kelly, and brother-in-law Ben Lee Cheshire.
Luke Bryan: My Dirt Road Diary will premiere on Friday, Aug. 6, exclusively on IMDb TV, Amazon’s premium free streaming service.
