A man drove onto a Miami Beach boardwalk Sunday morning before veering off and plunging into the water. At around 7 a.m., several people gathered at the South Pointe Park marina boardwalk and stared at the Atlantic Ocean, where a dark-colored car was submerged with its trunk open, according to a video of posted on […]
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock soared 82.5% in the first quarter of 2024. (The market’s quarter ended on Thursday, as U.S. financial markets were closed on Friday for the Good Friday holiday.) That performance made the artificial intelligence (AI) chip leader the second-best performer on the S&P 500 index, behind only Super Micro Computer, a server […]
A Northrop Grumman official on Monday attributed the explosive cost growth of the U.S. Air Force’s next intercontinental ballistic missile to the service’s design changes, particularly to the nuclear missile’s silo and connecting cables. The Air Force’s original plan for modernizing its ICBM enterprise included keeping nearly all its existing copper cabling in place to […]
I’m Brian Gordon, tech reporter for The News & Observer, and this is Open Source, a weekly newsletter on business, labor and technology in North Carolina. Last Friday, I visited one of the country’s few VinFast franchise dealerships to finally get behind the wheel of the much-discussed electric vehicle headed to North Carolina. Sometime next […]
Angela Chao, a shipping industry CEO and sister-in-law to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, was intoxicated when she drove into a pond and died last month in Texas, according to a law enforcement report released Wednesday. The investigation by the Blanco County Sheriff’s Office concluded that Chao’s death was an “unfortunate accident” and her blood […]
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas – On Friday, Max Lambert was charged with the online solicitation of a minor in Montgomery County after driving an hour to get to the home of who believed was a child. According to officials, 62-year-old Lambert was charged with Online Solicitation of a Minor and Possession of a Controlled Substance after […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Sixteen years ago, mass protests in Nepal forced then-King Gyanendra Shah to give up the throne and clear the way for a republic. Now, a new wave of protest is trying to bring him back. The capital of the Himalayan country is again teeming with demonstrators, this time demanding that Shah […]
ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — Two Ohio women have been accused of driving the body of a deceased 80-year-old man to a bank to withdraw money from his account before dropping his body off at a hospital. Karen Casbohm, 63, and Loreen Bea Feralo, 55, were charged Tuesday in Ashtabula with gross abuse of a corpse […]
Two roommates of a recently deceased man were each charged with abusing a corpse after propping up his body to withdraw money from his bank, police said. The pair, Loreen B. Feralo, 55, and Karen Kasbohm, 63, found the man dead Monday and took his body to a bank, where they had previously accompanied him, […]
STURGEON BAY – A Sturgeon Bay man was sentenced to 21 years in prison Thursday on multiple charges, including for driving drunk leading to a fatal hit-and-run crash in 2022. According to the criminal complaint, Joshua J. Gann, 45, had a blood-alcohol level of 0.234%, almost three times the legal driving limit, when he struck […]
ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — An Ohio Chick-fil-A owner drove about 6.5 hours into NC to engage in sex acts with a 15-year-old, the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office said. On Tuesday, March 5, deputies responded to a home located along John Michael Lane for reports of a breaking and entering in progress. As […]
Tabitha Smith died in “unimaginable terror” as she sat handcuffed in the back of a Tennessee patrol car that a deputy drove into a river on Valentine’s Day, her family said. In the wake of her death, her son is seeking $10 million. Deputy R.J. Leonard had been with the Meigs County Sheriff’s Office for […]