Floodwaters threatened hundreds of homes in southwestern Colorado over the weekend as heavy rains caused rivers and creeks in multiple counties to overflow. With more rain on the horizon Sunday, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis verbally declared a disaster emergency for flooding in the southwest part of the state, according to a statement from his office. The declaration activated the state’s …
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LAS VEGAS — As temperatures began to rise in Phoenix this spring, Dr. Jeffrey Johnston braced for the many hundreds of deaths that have become a grim summer trend. Johnston, the chief medical examiner for Maricopa County, Arizona, has seen extreme heat kill more and more people over the last decade: Heat-related fatalities there jumped from several dozen in 2014 …
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