A regional airline has relieved a flight crew involved in a landing at the wrong airport earlier this month in Louisiana, leading one lawmaker to demand answers. Continental Connection Flight 3222, which originated from Houston, was bound for Lake Charles, La., with 23 passengers and three Colgan Air crew members …
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BALTIMORE – Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has been released from a halfway house in Baltimore, where he’d been living since his release from an Alabama federal prison in March. Jackson was released from the Volunteers of America halfway house shortly before 9 a.m. EDT Monday and left in …
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LEXINGTON, N.C. – An inmate who authorities say escaped from a North Carolina lockup with the help of a prison employee has been recaptured, according to a state prisons spokeswoman. Kristopher McNeil, 29, was in custody in the Davidson County Jail, Department of Public Safety Communications Director Pamela Walker said …
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NEW MILFORD, N.J. – Authorities say a tree split in half and fell on a New Jersey woman after a night of heavy rain, killing her. New Milford police Detective Lt. Brian Long tells The Record (http://bit.ly/1JwTnOB ) that the Norwood maple tree split in half Wednesday morning and struck …
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – Lifeguards have ordered everybody out of the water in Huntington Beach after a shark bumped a surfer. The surfer told authorities a 5-to-8-foot-long shark bumped the underside of his board Friday morning as he sat waiting for a wave. The surfer paddled about 30 yards back …
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RICHMOND, Va. – A Russian man charged with leading a Taliban attack against U.S. forces in Afghanistan has lost his bid to avoid trial in federal court in Virginia. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson on Monday rejected Irek Hamidullin’s claim that he’s a prisoner of war and therefore cannot be …
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LOS ANGELES – Authorities searching for a gunman linked to a kidnapping, killing and wounding of two deputies have closed a stretch of the Pacific Crest Trail in the southern Sierra Nevada. Kern County sheriff’s spokesman Ray Pruitt said Thursday the search remains focused on a 5-square-mile portion of sparsely …
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SKOPJE, Macedonia – The mystery of a baby baboon abducted from Skopje’s zoo had a bittersweet resolution: A mother says she stole it as a gift for her deaf son. The 26-year-old woman told Dnevnik newspaper took that she lifted Luka, an 18-month-old crowd favorite, as a belated birthday present …
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THONOTOSASSA, Fla. – A manhunt was underway near Tampa after a sheriff’s deputy was shot in the thigh early Thursday while responding to a 911 call about shots being fired in the neighborhood. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Col. Donna Lusczynski told local television stations shots were fired in the direction of …
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WICHITA, Kan. – Police say a man is in custody after he brought a small improvised explosive device into a women’s health care clinic that provides abortions in south-central Kansas. Wichita Police Department spokesman Doug Nolte says officers responded to the South Wind Women’s Center around 3:30 p.m. Monday. He …
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