Month: September 2019

About 48,200 northern California customers will be without power starting Wednesday morning due to wildfire risks, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced on Tuesday. The outage is a precaution to lessen the risk of the company’s equipment starting a wildfire during especially dry and windy conditions. It is the second consecutive public safety power shutoff

A video transcript released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) depicts the last minutes of the passengers of a doors-off New York sightseeing helicopter that crashed last year. “How do I cut this,” one passenger asked while attempting to reach for a hook knife to cut himself free from the harnesses. The helicopter was

Last September, 18-year-old Leonel Rondon died after a series of fires and gas explosions rocked three towns in Massachusetts’ Merrimack Valley. After over a year of investigations, the National Safety Transportation Board says it finally knows what caused the destruction — inadequate management and poor oversight that led to a cast iron pipe being improperly

A Michigan police officer who was fired after a black man spotted a framed Ku Klux Klan application inside his home told investigators the item is just part of his antique collection, a new police report shows. Charles Anderson was fired from the Muskegon Police Department on September 12 following an investigation after potential homebuyers

An executive who paid $250,000 to get his son into the University of Southern California falsely as a water polo player was sentenced to four months in prison as part of the college admissions scam, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Devin Sloane, the founder and CEO of a provider of drinking water and wastewater systems,

New York City education officials are notifying thousands of former students, staff and teachers that they might be eligible for free health care or compensation through federal programs because of their exposure to the ground zero site at the time of the attack. Officials from the Department of Education (DOE) and United Federation of Teachers

An 11-year-old white girl is charged with a hate crime after a 10-year-old African-American girl was subjected to “racially motivated language” and a black eye, police said Monday. Three girls were involved in the assault on a school bus in Gouverneur, New York, about 100 miles north of Syracuse, CNN affiliate WWNY reported. Two of

An elementary school teacher made the day of a 10-year-old girl with spina bifida — and captured the hearts of everyone on the internet — when he carried her on his back through the Falls of The Ohio State Park during a school field trip. Ryan King is a fourth-grader at Tully Elementary School just

A 45-year-old man holding his 5-year-old daughter was killed when witnesses say he jumped in front of a subway train in New York City on Monday. The girl survived the incident, which happened at Kingsbridge Road station in the Bronx around 8 a.m. At least two commuters went onto the tracks to help pull her

Somebody call 911 — this fire department’s got baby fever. Nine firefighters at the Rancho Cucamonga Fire District in California all had babies at the same time, between March and July. So, they did what everyone does for major life events: They had a photoshoot. And the photos. Are. Adorable. Yes, the fire department confirmed

A search for a Kentucky woman missing in the US Virgin Islands was put on hold Tuesday because of an approaching Tropical Storm Karen, officials said. Lucy Schuhmann, 48, was reported missing on Thursday by the proprietor of the Airbnb in Coral Bay on St. John, where she was staying, according to a statement from

A 43-year-old Iowa hog farmer was found guilty on Monday for murdering his wife with a corn rake. In November 2018, Todd Mullis told authorities his wife, Amy Mullis, had fallen at the family farm in Earlville, Iowa, CNN affiliate KCRG reported. But Dr. Kelly Kruse, who performed the autopsy on Amy’s body, said the

An examination of previously untested sexual assault kits in Delaware has led police to a man responsible for seven Wilmington rapes over a span of about five years, the state’s Justice Department said. Hayim Raison, 36, of Chester, Pennsylvania, stood accused of raping seven women in secluded areas throughout the northern Delaware city of 71,000