Get your coffee or favorite caffeinated drink ready − there’s a very late-night, or possibly early morning, rocket launch scheduled this holiday week. Just before July Fourth, SpaceX has planned another Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral, and the launch window is when most people will be sleeping. However, the bright side is this: Night launches […]
Jun. 26—Federal investigators said a construction contractor could have prevented an employee’s fatal fall at a Chenango County job site in December 2023. According to a news release from the U.S. Department of Labor, inspectors with the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found A.W. Stiles Contractors Inc. of McMinnville, Tennessee, failed to provide the […]
Godspeed, Falcon Heavy! The mammoth SpaceX rocket − more powerful than the space agency’s Falcon 9 − will potentially liftoff this week from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Can you see a rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral in near Daytona Beach or New Smyrna Beach? Weather permitting and depending on cloud cover, […]
A rush-hour rocket launch? At about the time hundreds of motorists will be heading home from work or dinner out, a SpaceX launch window begins. A Florida rocket launch is on the horizon this week — maybe two — and the Fun Coast should get a great view of liftoff, weather permitting. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will potentially lift […]
A Smyrna High School teacher was arrested at her Smyrna home Wednesday and charged with three counts of offensive touching stemming from incidents in her classroom with her students, Smyrna police said. The arrest comes as a separate, monthslong criminal investigation into abuse claims at Smyrna Elementary School continues. Forty-year-old Kanika Jackson was arrested this […]
Delaware State Police have identified the victim in the fatal motorcycle crash that happened in Smyrna Thursday afternoon. State police said 59-year-old Lance Sieben from Dover died at the scene of a crash between the Harley Davidson motorcycle he was driving and a Jeep Cherokee last week. Authorities said the incident happened around 1:12 p.m., […]
A 36-year-old man was shot by a state trooper in Prices Corner on Friday night, according to police. Delaware State Police said they responded to a residence on Ferris Road at 9:19 p.m. where Jonathan Kreiser of Smyrna was reported to be suicidal. A preliminary investigation revealed two teens saw Kreiser walking down the street […]
SMYRNA, Tenn. (WKRN) – Smyrna police are looking for thieves who drove a car through a gun shop and made off with weapons and ammo. The security video of the burglary is from The Southern Bunker, where the crime happened Saturday morning. Christopher and Kelsey Alford run the gun shop. Man arrested for throwing Molotov […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A woman who sued a concrete company over a 2020 accident involving one of their drivers was recently awarded a $31.8 million award by a Davidson County jury. According to the injury firm Morgan & Morgan, Jennifer Gooch, 40, was awarded $31,894,263, which includes $30 million in punitive damages, by the […]
Daytona Beach is known for a lot of things: The Daytona 500, beautiful beaches and not to mention Bike Week. But did you know Volusia County is privy to some amazing views of rocket launches from neighboring Brevard County, home to Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station? You can check it out […]
Smyrna Police are investigating after two French Bulldogs were stolen out of a woman’s car while she was inside a store. This happened Saturday afternoon in broad daylight in the parking lot of the Cumberland Crossing Shopping Center on Cumberland Boulevard. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Channel 2′s Elizabeth Rawlins […]
A Missouri man out on bail for stomping a rooster to death in New Smyrna Beach in July was put back behind bars Friday after he lost his bid to have his 90-day jail sentence reduced by an additional five days. Joseph Walters, 25, was sentenced to 90 days in the Volusia County Branch Jail […]