Scott County Board of Supervisors recently bought five new fire trucks for use in three of the county’s volunteer fire departments, SCTOnline.net reported.

The trucks will be provided to Homewood VFD, Lake VFD and North Central VFD (Harperville/Hillsboro/Midway), the report said.

All 2022 models, the trucks were purchased for $1,998,568 with funding coming from a matching grant of $390,000 from the Mississippi Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program. The remaining balance was funded through local ad valorem on an MDA capital improvement loan, the report said.

An investigation is underway after a truck driver died when an 18-wheeler went off a highway overpass in Allen, Texas, and officials are also looking into the road's infrastructure. The crash happened Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of U.S. 75 and Stacy Road. Dash camera video from a witness showed the semi-truck plummeting off the U.
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A suburban police detective climbs the steps of the main Cook County criminal courthouse in hopes of ending a 40-year-old mystery. The Tylenol murders, as they are commonly known, have been his investigation since he assumed responsibility for the cold case more than 15 years ago. Now, he and several other law enforcement officials believe they have solved the killings.
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