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Plane makes emergency landing at Ocean City beachVideo
Swimmers were a little surprised when a plane splashed down at this Maryland beach. Trevor H. Deihl, 23, of Reedville, Va., reported that his single-engine Cessna 172RG was having engine problems before he landed it in the Atlantic Ocean, Maryland State Police told Fox News. Authorities praised the pilot for...
Driver suffers minor injuries when car slides under truck
UXBRIDGE, Mass. — Fire officials say they are amazed that a driver wasn’t seriously hurt when his vehicle slid under a tractor-trailer in Massachusetts. Authorities say the car was on Route 146 in Uxbridge on Tuesday when it hit something in the road and went airborne. The brakes didn’t work,...
Boy’s beer stand prompts calls to police
A boy selling beer on the street in Utah was unusual enough for passers-by to call police. Officers from the Brigham City Police Department on Tuesday found the boy hawking beer of the root variety. The department praised the youngster’s “Ice Cold Beer” sign as an effective marketing strategy. ”Yep,...
Facebook event to storm Area 51 gets deadpan response from Air Force
About 1.5 million people say they’re going, and another 1.1 million are interested, but how many, if any, will actually show up remains to be seen. A Facebook event called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” is organizing people to rush the fabled Nevada Air Force base...
Georgia beachgoers keep pilot whales from stranding on shore
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — A state biologist says beachgoers in Georgia helped keep about 30 pilot whales from stranding themselves on the shore. Clay George with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources says the whales showed up Tuesday afternoon off the beach at St. Simons Island. Three whales beached...
Steamy text message sparks marriage fraud investigation
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A steamy text message at the most inopportune moment has sparked a federal marriage fraud trial in Rhode Island. The Boston Globe reports Prince Mark Boley, a Liberian man living in Providence, married Amanda Hames-Whitman in 2016. According to court documents, the two visited a U.S. Citizenship...
Nesting penguins can’t resist lure of New Zealand sushi shop
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Two little blue penguins just couldn’t stay away from a New Zealand sushi store, returning to nest there even after police had captured them and escorted them back to the ocean. Wellington police described them as “waddling vagrants,” while the store’s co-owner joked he had no...
City hopes ‘Baby Shark’ song will drive homeless from park
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Officials in West Palm Beach are hoping a continuous loop of children’s songs played throughout the night will keep homeless people from sleeping in a city park. West Palm Beach parks and recreation director Leah Rockwell tells the Palm Beach Post they’re trying to discourage...
Deputies: Florida man tied up wife’s lover, cut off penis, took it home
BELL, Fla. — Authorities say a Florida man held his wife’s lover at gunpoint, cut off the man’s penis and fled with it. News outlets report 49-year-old Alex Bonilla was arrested hours later on charges including aggravated assault. The Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office released a statement Tuesday that said Bonilla...
Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman sentenced to life in prison
NEW YORK — The Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced to life behind bars in a U.S. prison, a humbling end for a drug lord notorious for his ability to kill, bribe or tunnel his way out of trouble. A federal judge in Brooklyn handed down the...
CHP helps reunite 250-pound tortoise with owners
SANTA YNEZ, Calif. — A 250-pound tortoise that wandered away from its home has been rescued after California Highway Patrol officers found it on the side of a road. And no, they didn’t arrest it for speeding. The CHP says it got a call about the big reptile Sunday evening....
Reports: Plane had engine trouble before landing on Ocean City beach
OCEAN CITY, Md. — Police in Maryland say the pilot of a small plane told them he was experiencing engine trouble before he made an emergency landing in the shallow ocean waters of a Maryland beach. News outlets quote Ocean City police as saying in a news release that 23-year-old...
Rescuers look for survivors after building collapse in India
MUMBAI, India — Rescuers cleared debris and used sniffer dogs Wednesday to find possible survivors under the rubble of a dilapidated building that collapsed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai. At least 12 people were killed, and several are still feared trapped. Dozens of rescuers worked overnight at the site...
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens dies at 99
WASHINGTON — John Paul Stevens, the bow-tied, independent-thinking, Republican-nominated justice who unexpectedly emerged as the Supreme Court’s leading liberal, died Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after suffering a stroke Monday. He was 99. During nearly 35 years on the court, Stevens stood for the freedom and dignity of individuals, be...
Epstein defense offers explanation for foreign passportVideo
NEW YORK — Defense attorneys told a court Tuesday that financier Jeffrey Epstein obtained a foreign passport decades ago out of fear that he might be kidnapped in the Middle East, seeking to allay concerns over the apparently phony travel document. Prosecutors have said the passport was under an alias....
After New York teen is slain, photos of her corpse circulate online
ALBANY, N.Y. — A 17-year-old girl with a small social media following in upstate New York was killed by a man she’d met recently on Instagram, who then posted photos of her corpse online, police said. The gory pictures were redistributed widely, including by online posters who made light of...
Judge orders R. Kelly held in jail without bond
CHICAGO — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered R. Kelly held in jail without bond after a prosecutor warned that the singer accused of having sex with minors and trying to cover up the crimes would pose an extreme danger to young girls if set free. “If he was attracted...
Should we resurrect the American chestnut tree with genetic engineering?
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The wild chestnuts around this leafy college town used to grow in such great numbers that locals collected the nuts by the bushel and shipped them off to New York City for a small fortune. These days, though, it can be hard to find a single tree...
Trump aide Kellyanne Conway asks reporter, ‘What’s your ethnicity?’Video
NEW YORK — White House adviser Kellyanne Conway says she meant no disrespect in asking a reporter to reveal his ethnicity. Her question came during an informal press gathering Tuesday when reporter Andrew Feinberg asked her about President Trump’s tweets regarding freshmen Democratic congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley...
Too-tall toupee tips police to cocaine smuggler
A man’s toupee looked just a little too big for his head as he landed in Barcelona. Airport officers took the Colombian man aside for a second security screening and found half a kilo of cocaine on his head, reports Reuters. Police said the 65-year-old man arrived on a plane...
Video: Divers spot jellyfish bigger than human off Britain’s coastVideo
Divers have encountered a shockingly large jellyfish in the waters off of Britain. Biologist and broadcaster Lizzie Daly was diving in the Atlantic Ocean near Cornwall with cameraman Dan Abbott when they found a barrel jellyfish that appears to be larger than Daly. The pair shared photos and video on...
Fossil found in 1980s in Texas declared new genus, species
BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas — Experts say fossil remains discovered in the 1980s at the Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas have been identified as a new genus and species of duckbilled dinosaur. The Journal of Systematic Paleontology announced the classification of the Aquilarhinus palimentus last week. It...
Sen. Bob Casey to host live-stream hearing on robocall fraud targeting seniors
Delaware County Sheriff Jerry Sanders knows all too well how sophisticated robocallers and phone scammers are becoming. This spring, con artists began “spoofing” the sheriff’s office phone number to try to scam local residents. U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton and the ranking member of the Senate’s Special Committee on Aging,...
3 dead, 4 missing in float plane crash in Canada
ST JOHN’s, Newfoundland — At least three people died and a search is under way for four others missing after a float plane crashed into a lake in the Eastern Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Air Saguenay President Jean Tremblay said Tuesday the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver was carrying...
Calif. camper chased by man with knife glad to be back with family
BISHOP, Calif. — A woman missing for three days after disappearing from a remote campground in California’s White Mountains on Tuesday described a man she says chased her with a knife as a burley, bald “big guy” with tanned skin. Sheryl Powell, of Huntington Beach, California, detailed what it was...
