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Plane carrying 42 goes off Alaska runway, 2 critically hurt
UNALASKA, Alaska — A commuter airplane carrying 42 people, including a high school swim team, to a remote Aleutian Islands fishing community went off the runway and came to a rest just short of the Bering Sea. Two passengers suffered critical injuries and 10 more were receiving medical care, the...
Plan to close New York’s notorious Rikers jail complex by 2026 approvedVideo
NEW YORK — New York City lawmakers voted Thursday to close the notorious Rikers Island jail complex, which has become synonymous with violence and neglect, and replace it with four smaller jails intended to be more modern and humane. The City Council voted 36-13 to replace the complex with four...
Spokesman for grieving U.K. parents: White House ‘a bunch of henchmen’ for TrumpVideo
WASHINGTON — The grieving parents of a British teenager who was killed in a car crash involving a U.S. diplomat’s wife said President Donald Trump “doesn’t understand” how much the accident has “broken” their family. Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn appeared on CNN for an interview Thursday morning in which...
Family finds 5 inches of blood in their basementVideo
An Iowa family discovered a bloody mess in their basement. Five inches of animal blood, fat and tissue, to be specific. Nick Lestina, a father of five, stopped home on Oct. 3 and found his sump pump spewing red liquid, reports the Des Moines Register. The blood and guts had...
Mike Pence says Turkey agrees to cease-fire in Syria
ANKARA, Turkey — Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday that Turkey has agreed to a cease-fire to allow the Kurdish forces it was battling to safely withdraw from an area in northern Syria. Pence spoke after he and other U.S. officials met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara....
Trapper plays with alligator until it tires, pulls it from pool
PARKLAND, Fla. — A Florida animal trapper says he corralled a large alligator by playing with it until it got tired after it hopped into a residential swimming pool. Celebrity trapper Paul Bedard, who is contracted with the state’s nuisance alligator program, said Thursday that he was dispatched to a...
U.S. envoy key to Ukraine probe distances himself from Trump
WASHINGTON — The U.S. ambassador to the European Union distanced himself on Thursday from President Donald Trump, planning to tell House impeachment investigators that he was disappointed Trump directed him to work with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine policy and that he believes it’s wrong to invite a...
Hurricane Center: Tropical storm likely along Gulf Coast
MIAMI — The National Hurricane Center says thunderstorms and showers off the coast of Mexico are likely to develop into a storm that will threaten the U.S. Gulf Coast by this weekend. Forecasters say there’s an 80% chance that the area of low pressure located in the Bay of Campeche...
Chicago teachers to strike amid no contract deal
CHICAGO — Chicago teachers are set to go on strike after failing to reach a contract deal with the nation’s third-largest school district. Both sides have been negotiating for months over issues including pay and benefits, class size and teacher preparation time. The Chicago Teachers Union said Wednesday night that...
Attorney: Lawsuit planned over VA hospital death in West Virginia
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An attorney representing the family of a patient who died at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia says he plans to sue over what he believes is the man’s suspicious death from a wrongful insulin injection. Charleston attorney Tony O’Dell said a notice of a pending...
GM and union reach tentative deal that could end strike
DETROIT — Bargainers for General Motors and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative contract deal on Wednesday that could end a monthlong strike that brought the company’s U.S. factories to a standstill. The deal, which the union says offers “major gains” for workers, was hammered out after months of...
Stoneman Douglas High School commission says mental health system needs overhaul
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida’s mental health system is underfunded and needs to be overhauled, with better coordination between providers, law enforcement and educators, the commission investigating last year’s high school massacre recommended to the legislature Wednesday. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission, meeting in Orlando, found...
Bike lane prank dangerous but a hit on social media
A city in Cyprus got some surprises when it hired a company to paint a bike trail. Residents of Limassol found their new red cycling route a little difficult (and unsafe) to follow, reports Knews Kathimerini. The painted path made twists and turns around obstacles like trees and parked cars,...
British family held at Pa. detention center decries treatment by U.S. after border crossing
Seven members of an extended British family who made an unauthorized crossing into the United States from Canada are being held in federal custody at a Pennsylvania detention center nearly two weeks after their arrest, their lawyer said Tuesday, as U.S. border officials defended their handling of the case by...
Kim Jong Un rides horse on sacred peak, vows to fight U.S. sanctions
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea released a series of photos Wednesday showing leader Kim Jong Un riding a white horse to a sacred mountain he has often climbed before making key decisions. Near the mountain, Kim reportedly vowed to overcome U.S.-led sanctions that he said had both pained and...
Study: ‘Medicare for All’ not only way to universal coverageVideo
WASHINGTON — Health care memo to Democrats: There’s more than one way to get to coverage for all. A study out Wednesday finds that an approach similar to the plan from former Vice President Joe Bide n can deliver about the same level of coverage as the government-run “Medicare for...
Bomb scare at Montana school turns out to be false alarm
HELENA, Mont. — Authorities evacuated an elementary school in Montana on Tuesday after officials found what they thought were the remnants of a homemade bomb that exploded, but it turned out to be a plastic bottle filled with nuts and bolts left in the schoolyard. School officials in Helena made...
Prosecutors seek life for New Mexico man who killed family
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico man convicted of killing his parents and three younger siblings when he was 15 apologized to the rest of his family Tuesday as he asked a judge for an opportunity at rehabilitation and redemption. Nehemiah Griego, now 22, was the last person to address...
Vegan calls cops on friends after she was fed chicken nuggets while drunk
A vegan woman went to the police after her friends fed her chicken nuggets while she was drunk. The woman, on an anonymous post on Reddit, said she was at a party where she got "white girl wasted" and her friends "thought it would be funny to feed me chicken...
Deputies ask Florida man to quit calling 911 about his stolen marijuanaVideo
DADE CITY, Fla. — Authorities say a Florida man repeatedly called 911 to report that his roommate had stolen his marijuana. A deputy for the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office posted a Twitter response to the man’s calls Saturday night: Stop calling. Deputy Neal Zalva says in the Twitter video that...
Fort Worth chief: ‘Absolutely no excuse’ for woman’s killingVideo
FORT WORTH, Texas — The furor Tuesday over the killing of a black woman by a white Fort Worth officer became increasingly about a gun pointed at a bedroom window. But the police chief and activists said the focus was on the wrong gun. Officer Aaron Dean was arrested on...
Census Bureau seeking driver’s license info, administrative records
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Census Bureau wants even more details on American residents, requesting states to provide driver’s license and administrative records to add to a trove of federal data being collected by the agency in its census count. Officials plan to use the administrative records to help catch people...
Feds propose opening biggest national forest to logging
JUNEAU, Alaska — The U.S. Forest Service is taking comments on a proposal that would exempt the country’s largest national forest, in southeast Alaska, from a ban on timber harvests and road building in roadless areas. This option is listed as the preferred alternative by the agency in a draft...
Man shocked by Michigan police stun gun falls on knife, dies
MARION, Mich. — Police say a man fell onto a large knife and died after a police officer shocked him with a stun gun in northwestern Michigan. State police say 29-year-old Calvin James Schwab died Friday in Marion, about 155 miles northwest of Detroit. Police said Monday that a woman...
Woman claims neighbor’s wind chimes make her scream in pain
A woman in southern England claims the sound of wind chimes is so painful that she is confined to her bedroom. Chrissie Bradby, 56, of Poole, Dorset, has a neuromuscular disease called dystonia which makes her muscles uncontrollably contract and trigger pain, reports Metro.co.uk. She says high-pitched noises trigger the...
