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U.K. men who came to Southwestern Ontario for ‘crime tourism’ deported

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A Sarnia judge had a farewell message for a pair of U.K. men who, apparently unsuccessfully, tried scamming several local homeowners out of money with fraudulent cleaning and repair jobs while on a vacation in Canada. “Go home,” Justice Paul Kowalyshyn said Thursday in a Sarnia courtroom. “Don’t let the door of the plane hit you […]

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No flood gauges, no warning: 99% of US streams are off the radar amid rising flash flood risks – we saw the harm in 2024 | Great Lakes Now

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No flood gauges, no warning: 99% of US streams are off the radar amid rising flash flood risks – we saw the harm in 2024

By Julie Arbit, Brad Bottoms, and Branko Kerkez, University of Michigan

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Flooding is one of the deadliest and costliest natural disasters in the U.S., causing billions of dollars in damage each year.

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