Month: June 2012

(June 22, 2012) -- Minnesota Public Radio reports that several Northeastern Minnesota parks were hard-hit by flooding and remain closed. The closures include Savannah Portage State Park, Moose Lake campground, Jay Cooke State Park, and Cuyuna County State Recreation Area.

(June 22, 2012) -- Extensive damage to water systems left all the local Summit County campgrounds -- totaling several hundred campsites -- without water over Memorial Day weekend, reports the Summit County Citizens Voice.

(June 22, 2012) -- WAVY-TV reports that thanks to tips from the Crime Line, Brian Smith, of Hampton, has been arrested and charged in connection with a double homicide at the Davis Mobile Home and RV Park in Newport News.

(June 22, 2012) -- Two men who admitted breaking into 50 trailers at the Red Ridge Lake Campground in Zion Grove last November are each on their way to state prison after pleading guilty and being sentenced Wednesday, reports Republican & Herald.

(June 22, 2012) -- The Peninsula Daily reports that 17-year-old Darren Fitz­Gerald, the first-year manager of a KOA campground in Port Angeles who hosted a DJ contest last weekend that prompted more than 100 complaints, said he “wished it had never happened.”

(June 22, 2012) -- The Mount St. Helens Ranger District is currently seeking individuals or couples who have a motorhome or travel trailer to work as volunteer campground hosts for part of the upcoming vacation season, reports the The Seattle Times.

(June 22, 2012) -- Idaho State Police said a 52-year-old Bellevue woman was hurt Thursday evening after she jumped from a moving motorhome on Interstate 15 in Pocatello, reports the Idaho State Journal.

(June 22, 2012) -- Officials at St. Andrews State Park are investigating the slaying of a three-legged alligator park employees named Stumpy, reports The News Herald of Panama City.

(June 22, 2012) -- According to a National Park Service spokesman, a Mount Rainier ranger slid more than 3,000 feet to his death Thursday while helping in efforts to rescue four injured climbers who fell on a glacier, reports the Washington Post.

(June 22, 2012) -- The Sacramento Bee reports that Riverside County authorities say a driver has died after intentionally smashing his RV into, as reported by the Riverside Press-Enterprise, Lazey J’s Roadhouse in Lake Elsinore.