Tammy Webber, Author at Valley News

AniYa A motions as she walks through Times Square in New York, while talking on her cell phone after a Minnesota jury found Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Floyd died last May after Chauvin, a white officer, pinned his knee on or close to the 46-year-old Black man's neck for about 9 1/2 minutes. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s death

by Amy Forliti Associated Press, Stephen Groves Associated Press, Tammy Webber Associated Press, and Steve Karnowski Associated PressApril 20, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man’s neck in a case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious…

FILE - In this Jan 30, 2019, file photo, a firefighter walks past an ice-encrusted home after an early morning house fire in St. Paul, Minn. The dangerous cold and heavy snowfall that hobbled the northern U.S. this week has retreated, but not before exacting a human toll: more than 20 deaths and hundreds of weather-related injuries including frostbite, broken bones, heart attacks and carbon monoxide poisoning. (Jean Pieri/Pioneer Press via AP, File)

Cold, snow kill more than 2 dozen, hurt hundreds, including driver in N.H.

by Steve Karnowski Associated Press, and Tammy Webber Associated PressFebruary 1, 2019

Photographers set up tripods along the shore of Lake Michigan before sunrise, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Chicago. The painfully cold weather system that put much of the Midwest into a historic deep freeze was expected to ease Thursday, though temperatures still tumbled to record lows in some places. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Long johns to short sleeves: Rapid thaw follows polar blast

by Tammy Webber Associated Press, and Jeff Karoub Associated PressJanuary 31, 2019

In this Dec. 14, 2017 photo, a snowy owl flies away after being released along the shore of Duxbury Beach in Duxbury, Mass. The owl is one of 14 trapped so far this winter at Boston's Logan Airport and moved to the beach on Cape Cod Bay. The large white raptors from the Arctic have descended on the northern U.S. in huge numbers in recent weeks, giving researchers opportunities to study them. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Snowy Owl Numbers Lower Than Thought

by Tammy Webber Associated PressDecember 22, 2017

In this July 14, 2017 photo, domestically produced petroleum coke is loaded onto a truck to be transported to factories, at a railway station in Rampur, about 210 kilometers (130 miles) from New Delhi, India. Petcoke is the black, bottom-of-the-barrel oil-refining waste that containing more sulfur than what's allowed in coal. Within a decade, India’s petcoke appetite grew so voracious that it began producing and selling its own, and Indian refineries today are making about as much as the country is importing. (AP Photo/Vaishnavee Sharma)

U.S. Exporting Dirty Fuel to Pollution-Choked India

by Tammy Webber Associated Press, and Katy Daigle Associated PressDecember 3, 2017

Shredded papers are thrown symbolizing shredded tax returns, while Anthony Atamanuik of Comedy Central, impersonating President Donald Trump, speaks during a Tax Day demonstration on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, April 15, 2017, calling on President Donald Trump to release his tax returns. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Tax Day Protesters Call on Trump

by Tammy Webber Associated PressApril 16, 2017