A hotel management company says an 8-year-old girl’s parents are to blame after a freak incident where the child was sucked into a pool pipe and drowned. On March 23, Aliyah Lynette Jaico and her family were enjoying an afternoon of swimming at a DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Houston, when the girl disappeared. Jaico’s […]
Seven passengers of the harrowing Alaska Airlines flight that had to make an emergency landing after a door-sized panel blew off the plane are suing the airline and the aircraft’s manufacturer Boeing. One of the plaintiffs is Cuong Tran, a passenger who was seated in a window seat right behind the door plug that blew […]
VALLE DE BRAVO, Mexico (AP) — Once a glittering weekend getaway for wealthy residents of Mexico City, Valle de Bravo has been reduced to a shrinking, increasingly polluted patch of mud flats and water by a combination of drought, water transfers to the capital, bad planning and lawlessness. Residents said Thursday that Valle — as […]
A Mississippi slaughterhouse that provides chicken to companies like Chick-fil-A was found responsible for the death of a 16-year-old sanitation worker who was pulled into a machine in July 2023, according to federal officials. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said in a press release that the fatal incident marked […]
A Mississippi slaughterhouse that supplies chicken to Chick-fil-A is directly to blame for the death of a 16-year-old worker who was sucked into equipment in July and killed within minutes, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday. OSHA, an agency within the U.S. Labor Department, said that it had cited Georgia-based Mar-Jac Poultry for […]
The short, terrifying journey of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Friday could have been much worse. When a part of the fuselage blew off shortly after takeoff, a boy’s shirt was sucked off his torso and out through the hole, passengers reported, leaving the mother holding the boy. “It tore off her son’s shirt!” a […]
In the spirit of the season, how about a glass-half-full view of our parlous politics as 2023 ends? Whatever else it’s been, 2023 was a year of finally holding scofflaws, outlaws and godawful politicians accountable, thanks to decisions from courts, prosecutors and, yes, voters — events that broke records, made history and affirmed justice. This […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he wishes his 2024 presidential primary rival Donald Trump had not been indicted because the former president’s legal woes have “sucked out a lot of oxygen” from the Republican contest. In an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody airing Thursday, DeSantis was asked what he most regrets about how […]