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A pilot appeared to recite the Lord’s Prayer in the final seconds before a Learjet crashed in Florida, killing everyone on board. The haunting cockpit audio was captured Sunday as the jet nosedived at high speed into a mobile home…
An aviation expert is raising questions about whether severe weather triggered the deadly nosedive of a private jet that killed all nine people aboard in Florida. David Ingram, a Learjet type-rated captain who reviewed footage and data from the aircraft’s…
The pilot of a doomed Learjet warned air traffic controllers about ice buildup just minutes before issuing a final Mayday call as the aircraft plummeted toward a Florida neighborhood. The female aviator, who has not yet been publicly identified, radioed…
Starting Monday, every international traveler bound for the United States must sign a new federal attestation form swearing they have not set foot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo within the previous three weeks. The requirement, issued by the…
Gov. Ron DeSantis described the wreckage as looking “like a missile going down” after a private jet nosedived into a Florida mobile home community, killing all nine people aboard. The Bahamas-bound Learjet 60, valued at roughly $2 million, plummeted to…
A crew member’s frantic mayday call captured the final seconds before a private Learjet 60 slammed into a Florida neighborhood, killing all nine people aboard. The business jet, traveling from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas, nose-dived into Palm Beach County…
Tenants at a Manhattan rent-stabilized building say they are “living in fear” after their landlord made a secret deal with the city to fill up to 30 percent of apartments with homeless and formerly incarcerated individuals, including active drug users…
All nine people aboard a Learjet 60 died when the business jet crashed into a residential area of Greenacres, Florida, on Sunday afternoon, authorities confirmed. The aircraft, traveling from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas to North Eleuthera Airport in the…
Shane McLaughlin, 37, was arrested last week on manslaughter charges after his 13-month-old daughter died of hypothermia in their freezing Maine home. The Milford father was taken into custody Wednesday and booked into Penobscot County Jail following a medical examiner’s…
At least six people were wounded when gunfire erupted at a crowded Halloween party near the University of Delaware, sending costumed partygoers scrambling for safety. The shooting broke out shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday on a packed stretch of Main…
Kayla Gunter filed a missing-person report after her sister failed to collect her children from the Boys & Girls Club Wednesday. View this post on Facebook Kandice Gunter, 30, had relocated from Nevada to Casper, Wyoming, roughly a month earlier…
The University of San Francisco is retiring its 92-year-old mascot and will debut a wolf as its replacement when classes resume in spring 2027. President Salvador Aceves confirmed Friday that “The Don,” a costumed figure with a pencil mustache and…
A Learjet 60 carrying nine people crashed and exploded in a residential area just miles from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, killing everyone on board. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, 43, confirmed the fatalities in a post on X last…
Two California school employees were arrested after a massive Costco breakfast order tipped off administrators to a nearly $300,000 embezzlement scheme at a Monterey County charter school. Terry Bumper, 42, the former food services director at the International School of…
Quinton Baker’s girlfriend is weighing legal action against Las Vegas police after the department admitted it cannot determine whether officers or Baker himself fired the fatal shot that killed the couple’s 3-year-old son during a deadly February standoff. Raneka Pate,…
A record-shattering field of roughly 60,000 racers hit the streets Sunday for the New York City Marathon, and none faced a sweeter surprise at the finish line than Katrina Holloway, 50, a Delaware teacher who had no idea her students…