An Air Europa flight from Spain to Uruguay was diverted after encountering severe turbulence. A video appears to show a man being helped down from the overhead luggage bins. “He flew and got stuck in the roof, in the bin,” a passenger sat close to him told Uruguayan TV. An Air Europa passenger appeared to […]
For as long as there have been Supreme Court rulings, there have been members of Congress dissatisfied with the justices’ opinions. Historically, this tends to lead to complaints and concerns, but little in the way of actual legislative actions. That said, for determined lawmakers, it would be an overstatement to argue that members have literally […]
An ex-con who survived a Staten Island knife fight was charged with murder Tuesday for the death of his adversary who — like the suspect — once did time for selling drugs, police said. Suspect Carlos Rivera got into a brawl with Joel Badillo, 41, outside Island Food Market at Broad and Gordon Sts. in […]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump spent the day before his 78th birthday being feted by Republicans in Congress who sang “Happy Birthday” and presented him with a cake and gifts. It was a remarkable show of loyalty for a former president who was shunned by many of the same lawmakers after the […]
Emily Post would be proud. A high school class president in Massachusetts who gave a commencement speech wanted to recognize all of his fellow graduates. So he wrote them personal thank-you notes presented at the ceremony — 180 to be exact. “I wish I could’ve acknowledged you all, but there was simply not enough time,” […]
Three North Texas lawmakers were censured by the Texas House GOP Caucus for campaigning against fellow Republican caucus members. The lawmakers — Arlington Rep. Tony Tinderholt, Fort Worth Rep. Nate Schatzline and Midlothian Rep. Brian Harrison — could have faced stiffer penalties. Instead the five-member Caucus Executive Committee voted to censure and condemn their conduct […]
On a recent afternoon in Little Haiti, more than 100 recently arrived Haitians bustled around tables of community organizations offering social services and employers scouting for workers. People passed heaping plates of diri kole avec poule fri — rice and beans and fried chicken — from one pair of hands to the other. The sound […]
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has provided more details about the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis police officer, including identifying the two Minneapolis officers who fired their guns during the shootout in the Whittier neighborhood of south Minneapolis. Three people died and four were injured in the incident Thursday. The BCA gave the following […]
May 31—State police arrested a Providence, R.I., man on Wednesday in connection with two different assaults, one on a fellow prisoner during transport to court and another at the Corrigan Correctional Center in Montville. Police said John Coutu, 37, was being transported by Judicial Marshals in a van from Corrigan to Norwich Superior Court on […]
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan emerged from Tuesday’s bloody GOP primary runoff with a wafer-thin victory, but the dominant forces in the Republican Party who have been gunning for him for more than a year showed no signs of backing away from their all-out effort to put the Legislature’s lower chamber under new management in […]
PEOPLE asked a travel expert to weigh in on the divisive incident after the mother wrote on Reddit that the other flyer told her she should be “ashamed” for taking the seat Getty Images A stock photo of a baby sleeping in a mother’s lap on an airplane A mother claims that after a flight […]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) didn’t seem amused by the parade of Republican officials who’ve joined former President Donald Trump at his criminal trial in New York in recent days. “Do we have something to do around here other than watch a stupid porn trial? I mean, this is ridiculous,” Murkowski, a veteran of the powerful […]