Each winter, fine particle pollution reaches dangerous levels, with residential wood burning responsible for up to 34% of emissions. This is a serious public health threat. Low-income families and communities of color already bear the greatest burden of polluted air, suffering higher rates of asthma and heart disease. The need for cleaner air is urgent, and limiting wood burning is a reasonable, science-based solution. Cleaner winter air means fewer emergency room visits and lives saved.
Driving the news: UPS flight 2976 was scheduled to fly from Louisville to Honolulu when it went down around 5:15 p.m. local time, the FAA said on X. The Louisville Metro Police Department originally issued a shelter-in-place order for all locations within five miles of the airport. The order has since been expanded to all areas north of the airport to the Ohio River.
Dean Herrington said he has been let go as football coach at St. Francis after five seasons during which his teams won three league championships and made two Southern Section finals. The team went 2-8 this season and failed to make the playoffs in a season in which there were numerous injuries at the quarterback position. St. Francis ended the regular season with a stunning 28-21 win over Cathedral.
"[IC360] reached out and told us there was some unusual action going on with that fight and [asked] did we know anything," White told TMZ. "We didn't. We called the fighter and his lawyer and said, 'what's going on? Are you injured? Do you owe anybody money, has anybody approached you?' The kid said, 'absolutely not, I'm going to kill this guy.' "The fight plays out, first-round finish -- literally, the first thing we did was call the FBI. I met the FBI twice [Tuesday]."
Scott Stafford, of Dublin, was charged with contacting a minor with intent to commit a sex crime. He was arrested in late September after an undercover sting by a San Ramon officer who posed as a boy on Grindr, a dating application geared toward LGTBQ individuals, according to court records. At the time of his arrest, Stafford was working as a delivery driver for UPS, authorities said.
At least seven people were killed when a large, wide-body UPS cargo plane crashed while taking off from an airport in Louisville, Kentucky, igniting an enormous fire and causing multiple injuries on the ground, authorities said. UPS Flight 2976 crashed at about 5:15pm local time (22:15 GMT) on Tuesday as it was departing from Louisville's Muhammad Ali airport, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement.
The soap opera-worthy saga was touched off last week by Tomer-Yerushalmi's explosive admission that she approved the leak of a surveillance video at the center of a politically divisive investigation into allegations of severe abuse against a Palestinian at a notorious Israeli military prison. The video shows part of an assault in which Israeli soldiers are accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee. By leaking the video last year, Tomer-Yerushalmi aimed to expose the seriousness of the allegations her office was investigating.
Dunn doesn't dispute that he threw his submarine-style sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent outside a nightclub on the night of Aug. 10. It was an "exclamation point" for Dunn as he expressed his opposition to President Donald Trump's law-enforcement surge in the nation's capital, defense attorney Julia Gatto said during the trial's opening statements. "It was a harmless gesture at the end of him exercising his right to speak out," Gatto said. "He is overwhelmingly not guilty."
Last year, Oxford University Press actually named "brain rot" the "Oxford Word of the Year." They offer a more formal definition: "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration."
If convicted, Thompson could face up to 20 years in prison. Thompson — an active member of Oakland's queer art community, as the founder of an art collective that routinely staged open mic nights and other workshops in the East Bay — said little during the hearing. Appearing shackled in black jeans and a black hoodie, Thompson said only Yes, your honor, when asked if she understood the charges against her.
Someone shot the monkey after seeing it cross the highway on Monday evening about a mile from the scene of the Oct. 28 crash, Jasper County Sheriff Sheriff Randy Johnson said. Johnson said he was contacted by a person with the transport company who recovered the monkey after a civilian shot it. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks confirmed Tuesday in a news release that one monkey was still unaccounted for after two of the escaped monkeys were "recovered deceased."
Law enforcement officials on Tuesday announced the arrests of five people, with felony warrants issued against two more, in a drug trafficking ring operating from Mami-Dade County to Port St. Lucie, with seizures of 2,262 grams of cocaine, fentanyl and other illegal drugs. "We're going to keep blowing up these networks right here in the state," said Attorney General James Uthmeier, comparing Tuesday's news with the Trump Administration's ongoing military strikes against suspected drug runners in international waters off South America.
A Mendocino County news reporter was arrested Monday on suspicion of making sexual comments on social media toward a 17-year-old Ukiah High School student, police said. Matt LaFever, 37, was taken into custody around 7 a.m. at his Hopland home following an investigation that began Oct. 16, according to the Ukiah Police Department. He is suspected of knowingly annoying or molesting a minor a misdemeanor under California law that applies to sexually motivated behavior toward someone under 18
All flights into and out of Ronald Reagan National Airport, one of the nation's busiest airports, were halted for a time on Tuesday due to a reported bomb threat, federal authorities announced. The threat was directed towards a United Airlines flight traveling from Houston, Texas, to the Washington, D.C. area airport, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on X.
In apologizing for the fiasco, Galen Shelly told PennLive that a lighted archway and lanterns he ordered to decorate a parade float he was building for Hanover's St Joseph's school did not arrive in time so he searched the internet for images of cemetery gates to represent the idea that none of us get out of this life alive. What he found, and replicated, was a photograph of the gates from the second world war Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland,
Former Clarkson Town Court Justice Ian Penders, an attorney since 2014, quit the bench amid the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct's investigation. The CJC said the judge in Monroe County had been stopped by police twice in June, and on Aug. 15 pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree.
The unarmed Minuteman III ICBM test is a routine way for the US Air Force to verify the missile is ready and accurate, especially as the service continues to rely on the 50-year-old system - as its replacement is delayed and over budget. US Air Force Global Strike Command said the missile would launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California between 11:01 pm Tuesday and 5:01 am Pacific time Wednesday.
Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street, pulled down by losses in the same big tech companies that have been the main drivers of the market's rally so far this year. The S&P 500 slid 1.2% in the early going Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 431 points, or 0.8%. The Nasdaq composite sank 1.7%. Palantir Technologies, which had more than doubled so far this year, fell 10% despite reporting results that beat analysts' forecasts. Nvidia also reversed course, falling 2.8%.
Mock, 47, was arrested after the Wichita Police Department said she stabbed her mother Anita Avers to death in Wichita, Kan. on Oct. 31 around 7:50 a.m. Police responded to a reported cutting where Mock was standing outside the home. Avers was found unresponsive in her bed with multiple stab wounds. Sedgwick County EMS transported Avers to Ascension Via Christi St. Francis Hospital, where she was pronounced dead just before 8:30 a.m., Wichita police said.
