A few Canadians are still stopping by the Blaine visitor center, said local Chamber of Commerce Secretary Carroll Solomon, but it’s often just to use the public bathroom. A few yards away one recent Sunday, Trent Arce and Gary Farrow were chatting by the welcome sign at the town entrance …
Read More »Plane with at least 6 House members clipped by aircraft on taxiway at Reagan National Airport near D.C.
A plane carrying at least a half-dozen U.S. House of Representatives members was clipped by another aircraft on the ground at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., on Thursday, officials said. U.S. Reps. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., Grace Meng, D-N.Y., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., all confirmed on …
Read More »2 teens found dead in JetBlue landing gear ID’d months later with ‘extensive DNA testing’
Florida investigators identified a pair of teenagers whose bodies were found in an airliner’s landing gear after a New York City-to-Fort Lauderdale flight back in January, officials said on Tuesday. It took the use of “extensive DNA testing” for detectives to name Jeik Aniluz Lusi, 18, and Elvis Borques Castillo, …
Read More »American arrested after trying to reach protected, remote tribe off Indian coast
NEW DELHI— Indian police have arrested a 24-year-old American YouTuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian Ocean and left an offering of a Diet Coke can and a coconut in an attempt to make contact with an isolated tribe known for attacking intruders. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, from Scottsdale, Arizona, was …
Read More »Michigan couple held in Mexico jail for a month after timeshare dispute is back in U.S.
A Michigan couple who were jailed in Mexico for almost a month after they disputed charges related to a Mexican timeshare have returned to the United States, their lawyers said Thursday. Christy and Paul Akeo, of Spring Arbor, “have been released from custody and have returned to Lansing, Michigan,” their …
Read More »New Zealand’s ‘Everyone Must Go’ drive mocked by leaving locals
A New Zealand government tourism campaign titled “Everyone Must Go” is drawing derision and mockery from residents who have criticized it as tone-deaf, especially at a time when New Zealanders themselves are leaving the country in droves. In an announcement Sunday, officials said they were spending 500,000 New Zealand dollars …
Read More »Hundreds of FAA employees are let go as Trump’s mass layoffs continue
The Trump administration fired hundreds of employees with the Federal Aviation Administration over the weekend, just weeks after a fatal crash over Washington, D.C., exposed understaffing at the agency. The union representing the employees called the firings a “hastily made decision” that would increase the workload of a workforce already …
Read More »Passenger on flipped Delta jet in Toronto recalls being upside down, ‘hanging from our seat belts’
A passenger aboard the Delta flight that flipped upside down in a crash-landing in Toronto on Monday recalled how within seconds of the wheels touching down, his body was turned fully sideways and he and other passengers were left dangling by their seat belts. Pete Koukov recorded video of the …
Read More »Delta offering $30,000 to passengers who were on plane that crash-landed in Toronto
Delta Air Lines is offering passengers who were on the Toronto-bound flight that crash-landed and flipped upside down $30,000 apiece. It was not immediately clear how passengers can claim their money, but if all 76 passengers take Delta up on its offer, it will have to fork over nearly $2.3 …
Read More »Police in Belize investigate after three U.S. women are found dead in hotel room
Authorities in Belize have started an investigation into the deaths of three women from the United States whose bodies were found in a hotel room on Saturday. Patrick M. Keefe Jr., mayor of Revere, Massachusetts, identified the three in a statement Tuesday as Wafae El Arar, Imane Mallah and Kaoutar …
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