IRVINE, Calif. — An explosion during an indoor training exercise Wednesday sent 16 members of Southern California’s Orange County Sheriff’s Department SWAT team to the hospital, with one person requiring surgery for a leg injury, the department said. Two others had superficial wounds while the remaining 13 had dizziness and ringing in their ears. The … Read more
A South Florida man has a long road to recovery after he was bitten in the leg by a crocodile at Everglades National Park over the weekend. “I am feeling good because I am alive,” Rodrigo Constain told NBC South Florida on Tuesday after coming home from the hospital. “It’s a story that probably couldn’t be told.” … Read more
Paul Alexander, the man who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years after contracting polio, died Monday after being hospitalized for Covid last month, his friends and family said. He was 78. Alexander’s death was announced on a GoFundMe set up to help him with finances. “I am so gratitude to everybody who … Read more
Around the same time, Connie Vickers was conducting her own investigation. She pored over Blevins’ old posts, collecting the ones where he mentioned Hitler admiringly and joked about wearing a swastika armband. Vickers scoured news footage from Charlottesville for Blevins. She collected screenshots and forwarded them to her friend Nancy Presnall. She made her sign. … Read more
A family is pleading for answers in the search for a University of Missouri student who has been missing since Friday after leaving a bar in Nashville. Riley Strain, a 22-year senior, was last seen Friday night by friends at a bar in Nashville’s bustling Broadway area, known for nightlife, Metropolitan Nashville Police said. He … Read more
A women’s roller derby league has asked a New York court to invalidate a Republican official’s order banning female sports teams with transgender athletes from using county facilities, saying it violates state law. The lawsuit, filed Monday in state court on behalf of the Long Island Roller Rebels, argues that the state’s human rights and … Read more
After holding the reputation as one of the worst airports in the country, LaGuardia Airport has made a complete turnaround, being awarded the best airport of its size based on a new passenger survey. The Airport Service Quality (ASQ) named LaGuardia the “best airport of 25 to 40 million passengers in North America” in 2023. … Read more
A former Boeing quality inspector who filed a whistleblower complaint over alleged plane safety flaws was found dead “from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” officials in Charleston, South Carolina said Monday. John Barnett, 62, spent more than three decades at the aircraft manufacturing giant and sounded the alarm with aviation authorities in … Read more
A man stabbed his wife and three children to death in their family home in Honolulu before taking his own life on Sunday, police said, in one of the deadliest crimes in Hawaii’s capital. None of the victims have been named, but police said the children were aged 10, 12 and 17. All five were … Read more
Al Pacino took the stage at the 96th Oscars to deliver the award for best picture. Spoiler: “Oppenheimer” won, but Pacino’s delivery of the winner arguably stole the show. Whereas the acting nominees had long presentations, the best picture presentation was rushed: Pacino didn’t read out the nominees. Rather than mention each movie by name, Pacino only said, “Ten wonderful … Read more