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Kaufman County district attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found shot dead in their home on Blarney Stone Way in Forney, Texas, on March 30th, 2013. Their shooting came almost two months after Assistant DA Mark Hasse was fatally gunned down on January 31st as he walked to the courthouse on East Grove Street in Kaufman, Texas. A Read more...
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Catch-and-release fishing is permitted in designated areas of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Prospect Park has the only freshwater waterbody in Brooklyn and the lake supports a variety of warmwater fish species, including largemouth bass, black crappie, yellow perch, chain pickerel, bluegill, pumpkinseed, common carp, and golden shiner. Fishing is prohibited from bridges and in fenced areas and no barbed hooks or Read more...
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Tubbs Hill in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, is named after Tony Tubbs, a German immigrant and prominent figure in the early history of the city after its incorporation in the late 19th century. Tubbs opened one of the Coeur d’Alene’s first hotels and acquired a tract of land on the lakefront that included the north and west faces of what became Read more...
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The house from where the popular British breakfast television show The Big Breakfast was broadcast during its original run from 1992 to 2002 was located at Old Ford Lock on Fish Island in Bow, East London. Built in 1947, the house was originally three separate cottages where the lock keepers, toll takers, and navigation operators of the Old Ford Locks Read more...
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In the city of Berkeley, California, yellow curbs indicate commercial loading zones reserved for businesses to actively load and unload merchandise or materials. General vehicles may also stop at yellow curbs for up to three minutes to pick up and drop off passengers, and the driver must remain present with the vehicle. Commercial vehicles have a 20-minute parking limit at Read more...