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A former flight attendant accused of posing as a pilot and working airline employee fooled three U.S. carriers into giving him hundreds of free tickets over a span of four years, federal authorities say. But precisely how he is alleged to have done it - and why the airlines wouldn't have caught on sooner - has industry insiders scratching their heads.

A Massachusetts man and woman were arrested and charged Wednesday in connection with a scheme to defraud banks in the state by fraudulently withdrawing more than $1 million, according to the office of Leah Foley, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. William Shaw, 67, of Boston, was indicted on four counts of bank fraud and four counts of aggravated identity theft, according to a statement from Foley's office.

After four days of jury selection, opening statements began in Las Vegas court Tuesday in the trial of Nathan Chasing Horse, an actor and self-proclaimed spiritual leader accused of abusing Indigenous girls and women for over two decades. Chasing Horse, who's best known for playing a character named Smiles a Lot in the 1990 Oscar-winning western Dancing with Wolves, was arrested in North Las Vegas in January 2023 following months of investigation into alleged sex crimes he'd committed in Clark County.

A 71-year-old man died on Monday after falling into a large vat of mineral oil at a New Jersey chemical plant, police and the company said Tuesday. The incident occurred at around 1:30 p.m. at the Bayway Chemical Plant in Linden when the subcontractor fell into a 6,000-gallon container he was loading with oil. He was retrieved by responders from the Bayway and Linden fire departments, but pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Both NBC Bay Area and KTVU were covering the story that FBI agents raided four East Bay locations Wednesday morning, in what is apparently an investigation into a stolen diesel fuel ring. Both reports are short on details, but the Bay Area News Groups seems way ahead on this one, noting that the raids come "amid reports that a group of thieves had set up a station to sell stolen gasoline at an East Oakland chop shop."

McCann noted that Massachusetts ranks third in job security and ninth in poverty rate, which increases the likelihood that parents will be able to provide for their children. While Massachusetts is not the cheapest state - with high housing and child care costs compared with the rest of the nation - McCann said that residents make up for it with high incomes. In addition, Massachusetts has the fifth-best water quality in the country,

Concord police began their investigation Sept. 7, 2025 when they spoke with a woman who reported concerns about Colbath, whom she said she had hired to babysit her children. The woman told officers that her children had relayed "concerning information" about him, according to police. The children were interviewed at the Merrimack County Child Advocacy Center, where they "disclosed further information of concern," police said.

Travelers to Alaska have a lot of ground to cover; the state holds 665,000 square miles of land that includes volcanic islands, Arctic tundra, glaciers, and temperate rainforest. Yet in winter, some of the state's most compelling scenery can be experienced in a week aboard the Alaska Railroad. The railroad's weeklong Aurora Winter Train "showcases the best of winter in Alaska," including easy access via Anchorage, a sled dog tour with an Iditarod champion,

We had to do a double-double take at Glassdoor's new Best Places to Work 2026 list, as they ranked fast-food chain In-N-Out as a better place to work than the cushy, high-paid confines of Nvidia, Facebook, and Google. If you had your choice between job offers from the Silicon Valley tech giants Nvidia, Google, and Facebook, with their massively lucrative stocks and lavish perks and salaries, or a job offer flipping burgers at a local In-N-Out, which offer would you take?

As he laid in a hospital bed last April, grateful just to be alive, Alijah Arenas dreamed of this moment. He thought of it in the weeks and months after his Tesla Cybertruck hit a tree and burst into flames in Reseda, leaving him hospitalized for six days. And he thought of it over a long summer and fall spent rehabbing the injured knee that failed him in his first week back to practice at USC.

The completed network delivers fiber-to-the-home and fiber-to-the-business Internet service to more than 3,500 addresses in town, providing ultra-reliable service and speeds up to 1 Gbps for homes and 10 Gbps for businesses. ImOn expanded its growing fiber network to Southeast Iowa early last year, working closely with the Mount Pleasant community throughout the project. Construction began in Mount Pleasant in May 2025, and the first customer was connected in July.

The two most productive wideouts in football, the Rams' Puka Nacua and the Seahawks' Jaxon Smith-Njigba, are competing for a trip to the Super Bowl this weekend in the NFC Championship Game. Both of those teams made significant receiver additions in free agency this past offseason, as the Rams signed Davante Adams and the Seahawks went for former Rams wideout Cooper Kupp.

The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund faces a critical milestone in 2033 when its reserves are projected to run dry. This doesn't mean Social Security disappears-payroll taxes from current workers will continue flowing in, but those taxes alone won't cover full benefits. The gap between incoming revenue and promised payments creates the funding crisis. Without congressional action, the program could only pay about 77% of scheduled benefits.

I opened it up and it said, 'Your medical bill has been paid,'

Williams' crewmate on Boeing's ill-fated capsule test flight, Butch Wilmore, left NASA last summer. The pair launched to the space station in 2024, the first people to fly Boeing's new Starliner crew capsule. Their mission should have lasted just a week, but stretched to more than nine months because of Starliner trouble. In the end, they caught a ride home last March with SpaceX.

"We will see bands of heavy snow with rates of 1 to 3 inches of snow per hour overnight Sunday." We are just over three days away from the most significant winter storm to strike Boston and Southern New England in just about four years. A 6-inch or greater major storm is highly likely, and I think there's going to be a wide swath of at least 8 to 16 inches for many of us. But keep in mind, those numbers can also change.

You will notice the announcer of the following highlight reel continually returns to one word to describe Learner Tien's performance against Alexander Shevchenko in the second round of the Australian Open: control. The 20-year-old American tidily dispatched Shevchenko in two quick hours, half of which the Kazakh spent in apparent physical agony and the entirety of which Tien spent in command.

A trio of plainclothes cops who showed up at a Brooklyn hospital seeking care felt disrespected by staff there, leading to NYPD leadership registering their unhappiness over how they were treated, the Daily News has learned. The narcotics detectives came to NYU Langone Health-Cobble Hill in Brooklyn to be checked out after a suspect they apprehended spat blood on them, police sources said. Exactly what transpired between the cops and hospital staff remains unclear.

As reported by local news network WTAE 4, according to a recently filed criminal complaint, 35-year-old William Gregory allegedly broke into a house in the Beltzhoover neighborhood outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and began shouting that he was an ICE agent and demanded that the reportedly Hispanic family show him identifying paperwork. He was carrying a large pocket knife and threatened a 17-year-old boy living in the home as he tried to steal a PlayStation console and grabbed the boy's phone.

One person was killed and another was injured in a crash on the Hayward-San Mateo Bridge Tuesday afternoon, when a car stalled and was hit from behind by a large van. California Highway Patrol officers insist that alcohol and drugs were not a factor, and as of 6 pm Tuesday night, traffic on the bridge was moving again, though barely at a crawl.

The hearing concerned Farwell's request to move his trial to Rhode Island. He and his lawyers contend that there has been "one-sided, biased media coverage" of the case in the Boston area, leading to the "widespread public misbelief" that Farwell groomed Birchmore, had sex with her when she was a minor, and ultimately killed her, according to court documents filed in November.

The US dollar was trading sideways on Wednesday after two sessions of losses. The currency continued to face downside risks as persistent concerns over rising tensions between the United States and Europe weighed on investor sentiment. President Donald Trump's aggressive stance on Greenland prompted a broader reduction in exposure to dollar-denominated assets. This risk-off behaviour has been reflected in treasuries, where yields recently surged across the curve, pushing the 10-year yield to multi-month highs.