VIDEO: Prankster Stephen Gilchrist Glover, better known as Steve-O, was removed from a Hollywood billboard to which he taped himself Thursday. Glover posted a selfie on Instagram, showing several layers of what appears to be black tape covering his body from his armpits to his thighs. Video of him being removed from the billboard showed he only wore what appeared to be white underwear underneath the tape.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCAL-TV CBS 9 Los Angeles

A Lebanon firefighter who was injured in an explosion at a hotel on Christmas Eve morning last year is telling what happened. Capt. Jeffrey Egner was one of two firefighters who were injured in an explosion at the Element Hotel in Lebanon on the morning of Dec. 24. According to the Lebanon Fire Department, they received an alarm just after 5:15 a.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPTZ-TV NBC 5 Plattsburg

Eric Retterbush has never liked taking photos of people. The practice feels invasive and risks overlooking the beauty of, say, a wheelbarrow or a particularly striking façade, he says. It also teeters on voyeurism. How many in the throng of a bustling Burmese market—one of the countries he works in as a travel guide (his day job)—have been photographed without their permission? Wasn’t it Honoré de Balzac who said all physical bodies were made of ghostlike images, “an infinite number of leaflike skins laid one on top of the other,” and repeated exposure to a camera stripped these—that is, the very essence of life—off? No—street photography, candid portraiture, a shot of someone who doesn’t know you—it was never Retterbush’s pull.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Daily Sun

The start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. may have been earlier and far larger than official records indicate, according to a new study. Researchers found that a substantial portion of people, including children, in Seattle who were suspected of having the flu this past winter likely had COVID-19 instead.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gizmodo

Another combine fire wreaked havoc north of Almira this week. Almira Fire Chief Dennis Pinar says a combine started a fire in a standing grain field at the north end of Sorensen Road about 12 miles north of Almira. Pinar suspects that the combine caused a spark that started the blaze. Pinar says he and his crews were called out to the blaze at about 2 p.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 6:28:51 PM - SOURCE: iFiberOne