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Ethiopian pilot pleaded for training weeks before Boeing 737 Max crash
NEW YORK — Just days after a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max nosedived in Indonesia and killed all 189 people aboard, an Ethiopian Airlines pilot began pleading with his bosses for more training on the Max, warning that crews could easily be overwhelmed in a crisis and that one of...
Gucci makes abortion rights statement with 2020 Cruise line
MILAN — Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele has made a clear abortion rights message in his latest Cruise collection, as the debate over abortion heats up once again in the United States. The collection, shown to a VIP crowd Tuesday evening in Rome’s Capitoline Museum, featured a purple jacket with...
‘Unexploded device’ in London is just giant Christmas ornament
Officials got a pretty serious scare in east London on Wednesday. However, the large bomb that some people had reported on the banks of the River Thames turned out to be a giant Christmas decoration. The Tower Hamlets bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department responded to the call of a...
New Hampshire man bit by rabid bat hiding in iPad case
A New Hampshire man closing his iPad got a big surprise: A bat was wedged between the back of the device and its cover and bit his finger. Roy Syvertson of South Hampton tells WMUR-TV it felt like a bee sting at first. When he realized he was dealing with...
Travelers leave nearly $1 million in TSA bins every year
Stressed passengers cruising through airport security checkpoints are abandoning nearly a million dollars in cash each year. And the Transportation Security Administration has been claiming finders keepers. But now someone else wants that money. The Department of Homeland Security is looking to fund border security and they spotted that $3...
U.S. officials to put off oil leases near sacred tribal land
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has agreed to put off oil and gas leasing for a year on land that tribes consider sacred surrounding Chaco Canyon National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico. Officials say that will allow time to finish an updated management plan to guide...
4 dead, 8 wounded in church van crash in Virginia
FORD, Va. — Virginia state police released the identity Wednesday of a pickup truck driver who allegedly slammed into the back of a church van, killing four people and injuring eight others. Police said the van carrying 11 people was slowing down to make a right turn into a church...
Tens of thousands in Ohio without power after twisters
DAYTON, Ohio — Tens of thousands of Ohio residents were still without power or water Wednesday in the aftermath of strong tornadoes that spun through the Midwest. Hospitals in the state reported that nearly 140 people were injured in the storms late Monday night, although only one person was killed...
Alleged $10 million people-smuggling ring busted in Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan officials say they have broken up a people-smuggling ring that purportedly moved 800 migrants a year through the country and took in some $10 million doing so. Wednesday’s announcement comes amid a visit by the acting U.S. Homeland Security secretary during which the two countries signed...
Pa. man pleads guilty in blowtorch break-ins, Apple thefts at Target stores
BOSTON — A Pennsylvania man authorities say used a blowtorch to break into Target stores in multiple states and steal nearly $200,000 worth of electronics has pleaded guilty to related charges. The U.S. attorney for Massachusetts says 36-year-old Elijah Aiken pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges including transporting stolen goods across...
Uber to boot riders from app if they repeatedly misbehave
If you misbehave repeatedly while getting a ride from Uber, you could get booted off the app. The company said that starting Wednesday, riders with a rating from drivers that’s significantly below average could lose their ability to ride. But before that happens they’ll get tips on how to improve...
KOA fires white worker who pulled gun on black visitors
JACKSON, Miss. — A white manager of a Mississippi campground has been fired after video showed her holding a gun while telling an African American couple to leave because they did not have a reservation. Kampgrounds of America spokesman Mike Gast said Tuesday that the unidentified manager had been fired...
Snake slithers out of toilet, bites Florida man on arm
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Authorities say a ball python slithered out of a toilet and bit a South Florida man on the arm. Coral Springs police spokesman Chris Swinson said the man was treated at the scene after the 4-foot snake bit him when he lifted the toilet seat on...
Court confirms man’s custody of dog, denies ex-girlfriend
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine’s supreme court has upheld a ruling granting a man sole custody of his dog, denying his ex-girlfriend’s bid to take the pet. The Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday affirmed that pets are property in confirming a district judge’s decision that the Lab-boxer mix named Honey belongs...
Tornado rips through Kansas City suburbs as storm moves east
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A vicious storm tore through the Kansas City area, spawning tornadoes that downed trees and power lines, damaged homes and injured at least a dozen people in the latest barrage of severe weather that saw tornado warnings as far east as New York City. The latest...
Wife of man killed in Hawaii shark attack: ‘He went out for one last swim’
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Thomas Smiley seemingly could do anything and enjoyed everything. He was an excellent swimmer, an expert scuba diver. He was an avid outdoorsman with a passion for auto racing, twin loves he shared with the family he adored. Every place was a favorite place, his wife Gale...
Chicago police: Mother killed shielding baby from gunfire
CHICAGO — Chicago police say a 24-year-old woman was fatally shot while shielding her 1-year-old daughter from gunfire. Police say Brittany Hill was getting out of a vehicle while holding her daughter at about 8:50 a.m. Tuesday when someone started shooting in a neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side. Chicago police...
No end seen to struggle as Mississippi flood enters month 4
HOLLY BLUFF, Miss. — It’s month four of an epic flood in the Mississippi Delta, where some people are still struggling to save their homes and some farmers are realizing they won’t plant a single acre this year. Floodwater now covers 860 square miles north of Vicksburg, and nobody knows...
Alex Trebek shares ‘mind-boggling’ pancreatic cancer update
LOS ANGELES — “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek says his doctors say he’s in “near remission” of advanced pancreatic cancer and his response to the treatment is “kind of mind-boggling.” The 78-year-old TV personality tells People magazine he’s responding very well to chemotherapy and the doctors have told him “they hadn’t...
Transgender woman who last year competed as a man wins NCAA track championship
A transgender woman who competed as a man as recently as last year won an NCAA women’s track national championship on Saturday. Franklin Pierce University senior Cece Telfer beat the eight-woman field in the Division II women’s 400-meter hurdles by more than a second, with a personal collegiate-best time of...
Navy SEAL seeks to toss slaying case over withheld evidence
SAN DIEGO — Lawyers for a Navy SEAL accused of killing an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017 want the case thrown out because of alleged prosecutorial misconduct that include withholding evidence and conducting surveillance on the defense. Attorneys for Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher plan to ask a...
After several quiet years, tornadoes erupt in United States
INDIANAPOLIS — After several quiet years, tornadoes have erupted in the United States over the last two weeks as a volatile mix of warm, moist air from the Southeast and persistent cold from the Rockies clashed and stalled over the Midwest. On Monday, the U.S. tied its current record of...
Kansas City airport halts flights during stormVideo
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The Kansas City International Airport has temporarily suspended flights and moved people from the terminals to parking garage tunnels for shelter because of storms passing through the area including tornadoes. Passengers were in parking garages for about an hour before being allowed to return to the...
W.Va. Catholic diocese releases more accused priests’ names
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s only Catholic diocese has released the names of two more priests who it says have been credibly accused of child sexual abuse in the state. The priests are accused of committing the abuse while working at the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. Both are deceased. One of...
Police say DNA links uncle to disappearance of Utah girl ‘Lizzy’ ShelleyVideo
LOGAN, Utah — DNA has provided further evidence that the 21-year-old uncle of a missing 5-year-old girl in Utah is behind her disappearance, police said Tuesday. Evidence also indicates the girl, Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley, is hurt, authorities said, though they did not elaborate. She was reported missing Saturday morning by...
