Report: No evidence plane failed in crash near Oxford, … OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — There is no evidence that structural failures caused a March airplane crash in north Mississippi that left one man dead and his son injured, according to a report published Wednesday by the National Transportation Safety Board. Authorities were alerted to the March 31 crash after a small private plane had not returned to […]
UPS employee among at least 2 killed when plane crashes … A small plane crashed in a San Diego County neighborhood Monday afternoon, killing at least two people including a UPS employee, authorities said.
Cormac McCarthy has two brand new novels coming out … The books, which will be available as a boxed set, are his first fiction releases since Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Road” in 2006.
Two rescued from plane caught in power lines in Maryland Two people were extricated from a small plane early Monday in Maryland, several hours after they crashed into power lines, causing widespread outages.
$3B canals, housing proposed for ex-airport in Atlantic … ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Two Philadelphia developers want to build a $3 billion housing, office and retail project on the site of a historic former airport in Atlantic City, the latest proposal for one of the largest tracts of buildable land near the ocean on the U.S. East Coast. But the proposal by Tower […]
Report: FAA overruled engineers, let Boeing Max keep … WASHINGTON (AP) — Some engineers for the Federal Aviation Administration wanted to ground the Boeing 737 Max soon after a second deadly crash, but top officials in the agency overruled them, according to a government watchdog. The inspector general of the Transportation Department said in a new report that FAA officials wanted to sort out […]
Alaska asylum seekers are Indigenous Siberians from … ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two Russian Indigenous Siberians were so scared of having to fight the war in Ukraine, they chanced everything to take a small boat across the treacherous Bering Sea to reach American soil, Alaska’s senior U.S. senator said after talking with the two. The two, identified as males by a resident, landed […]
Award-winning retired AP journalist Harold Olmos … Award-winning Bolivian journalist Harold Olmos, whose gentlemanly manner belied a remarkable reportorial tenacity and who led Associated Press operations in Venezuela and Brazil after fleeing his coup-convulsed homeland more than four decades ago, has died at age 78. Olmos died Wednesday in the eastern lowlands city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, of a heart attack after […]
Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan wounded in shooting at … ISLAMABAD (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a protest rally in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, slightly wounding former Prime Minister Imran Khan in the leg and killing one of his supporters, his party and police said. Nine other people also were hurt. The gunman was immediately arrested, and police later released a video of […]
Man who hijacked plane, threatened to crash it into … A man who hijacked a plane and threatened to crash it into a Walmart in Tupelo, Mississippi has died in federal custody.
Man who went to space with Shatner dies in plane … HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A man who traveled to space with William Shatner last month was killed along with another person when the small plane they were in crashed in a wooded area of northern New Jersey, according to state police. Glen M. de Vries, 49, of New York City, and Thomas P. Fischer, […]