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By Anthony Carlo Click here for updates on this story QUEENS, New York (WABC) — A flight simulator at a college in Queens is helping to train the next generation of pilots and air traffic controllers at a time when airlines are dealing with pilot shortages that have led to countless delays for travelers. Steven
Continue ReadingBy JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — In a matter of days, Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer went from teammates on the New York Mets to opposite sides of a Lone Star rivalry. That’s how it goes this time of year. Verlander was shipped from New York to Houston ahead of Tuesday’s trade
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — Lunchables, which is making its way into school lunchrooms this fall, is testing out yet another destination for parents to find its grab-and-go snack trays for kids–the produce aisle. Kraft Heinz (KHC), which makes Lunchables, said a new offering of its popular packaged meal for the first
Continue ReadingBy TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota’s legalization of recreational marijuana went into effect Tuesday. The law allows people 21 and older to legally possess and grow their own marijuana for recreational purposes. But that’s subject to limits as the state establishes a legal cannabis industry in the coming months and
Continue ReadingCHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A helicopter belonging to a county sheriff’s office crashed near the Charleston International Airport in South Carolina on Tuesday. The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office announced the crash in a post on social media. Authorities said the pilot was the only person aboard and suffered “non-life-threatening injuries.” Charleston County Aviation Authority Executive
Continue ReadingBy Chanteé Lans Click here for updates on this story LONG ISLAND, New York (WABC) — Keith Thomas of Massapequa, a former Manhattan wealth manager – and his sister, Michelle Bennett, who is now his caregiver, have watched their lives quickly change. At 41 years old, Thomas accidentally dove into a shallow pool in Montauk.
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer Northwestern has hired former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to lead an investigation into the culture of its athletic department and its anti-hazing procedures following allegations of abusive behavior and racism within the football program and other teams. Lynch served as Attorney General from 2015 to 2017 under former
Continue ReadingBy PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) — New details have emerged in the alleged threat cases in Connecticut against Dennis Hernandez, the troubled brother of the late New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. Testimony in court Tuesday claimed Hernandez threatened to kill his estranged wife and her divorce lawyer while
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CNN, KABC By Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — A massive fire burning across both California and Nevada is generating extreme fire behavior, spawning “fire whirls” and creating dangerous conditions for firefighters, authorities said. The fire, dubbed the York Fire, which is California’s largest fire of the year, has consumed 80,000 acres as of Tuesday morning.
Continue ReadingFRISCO, Texas (AP) — A Texas police department is reviewing errors made by officers who pulled over what they wrongly suspected was a stolen car and then held an innocent Black family at gunpoint. The car’s driver, her husband and one of the two children being driven by the Arkansas couple to a youth basketball
Continue ReadingBy JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — In a matter of days, Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer went from teammates on the New York Mets to opposite sides of a Lone Star rivalry. That’s how it goes this time of year. Verlander was shipped from New York to Houston ahead of Tuesday’s trade
Continue ReadingCHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A helicopter belonging to a county sheriff’s office crashed near the Charleston International Airport in South Carolina on Tuesday. The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office announced the crash in a post on social media. Charleston County Aviation Authority Executive Director Elliott Summey told WCIV-TV the helicopter’s pilot anticipated the crash and maneuvered
Continue ReadingBy LEA SKENE and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a biotechnology company that they accused of reaping billions of dollars from a racist
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has again rejected a military contractor’s effort to toss out a lawsuit filed against it by former inmates of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. The plaintiffs allege that Virginia-based CACI, which supplied interrogators at the prison, was complicit in torture they suffered. The
Continue ReadingZendaya has posted a tender tribute to Angus Cloud, her “Euphoria” co-star who died this week at age 25. “I’m so grateful I got the chance to know him in this life, to call him a brother, to see his warm kind eyes and bright smile, or hear his infectious cackle of a laugh (I’m
Continue ReadingZendaya has posted a tender tribute to Angus Cloud, her “Euphoria” co-star who died this week at age 25. “I’m so grateful I got the chance to know him in this life, to call him a brother, to see his warm kind eyes and bright smile, or hear his infectious cackle of a laugh (I’m
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Authorities are calling for the public’s help in locating a 47-year-old woman missing in the Morongo Basin area since July 22. Fang Jin flew into Los Angeles from China on July 14. The Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Department said Jin took a train from LA to the Palm Springs area. She was then picked up by
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America The former CEO of a respected South Carolina bank will spend seven years in federal prison for helping Alex Murdaugh steal nearly $2 million from clients’ legal settlements. Russell Laffitte was sentenced Tuesday after a jury found him guilty of six charges related to wire and bank fraud
Continue ReadingBy KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Astros owner Jim Crane texted Justin Verlander with a simple message moments after they reacquired him Tuesday from the New York Mets in a blockbuster trade. “I said: ‘Welcome back. We missed you,’” Crane said. “’We’ll see you in New York. Hope you pitch well for
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The First Alert Weather Team has tracked a significant improvement in the air quality outside today as compared to yesterday! We measure impacts to air quality using a tool called the Air Quality Index or AQI. A higher AQI value represents a higher level of that pollutant in the air. Some of the pollutants that
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