32 days ago by Sharon K. Gilbert

(KKTV.COM) — A plane has been diverted to the Colorado Springs Airport because of an unruly passenger. The CBS affiliate in South Carolina tells 11 News a passenger on the plane called a family member, saying the flight was from Atlanta to San Francisco. The Colorado Springs Airport says it was an A ...

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41 days ago by Sharon K. Gilbert

(NYT) — Updated, 12:58 p.m. | Police officers surrounded and began examining a suspicious-looking panel truck parked and apparently abandoned in Times Square on Wednesday morning. The truck, a 1992 Dodge with tinted windows covered by a tarpaulin, was discovered at Broadway and 42nd Street, near whe ...

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53 days ago by Sharon K. Gilbert

(BBCNEWS — Twitter has been hit by an embarrassing security breach. A group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army managed to redirect Twitter users to its own site displaying a political message. Twitter said the attack had been carried out by getting at the servers that tell web browsers where to f ...

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53 days ago by Sharon K. Gilbert

(BBC NEWS) –The infamous Arbeit Macht Frei sign at the entrance to the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland has been stolen. The wrought iron sign, whose words mean “Work Sets You Free”, was unscrewed and pulled down from its position above the gate in the early hours of Friday. Polish authorities de ...

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67 days ago by Sharon K. Gilbert

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Relatives of a Fort Drum soldier accused of stabbing his two Army buddies to death said Thursday that he told them he saw his best friend “blown to pieces” in Iraq and came back a changed man: abusive, violent, sleepless, edgy and plagued by flashbacks. more via The Associated Pr ...

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68 days ago by Sharon K. Gilbert

By DOUG HAGMANN (CANADA FREE PRESS) — On November 17, an incident took place aboard AirTran Flight 297 scheduled to fly from Atlanta Hartsfield Airport to Houston that the media does not want to cover and everyone from the airline to the TSA and other government agencies want to keep very quiet. mor ...

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77 days ago by Sharon K. Gilbert

(FOX NEWS/AP) — A Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word “fed” written on his chest killed himself and staged his death to look like a murder, authorities said Tuesday. via Investigators: Kentucky Census Worker Killed Himself – Local News | News Articles | National News | US ...

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82 days ago by Sharon K. Gilbert

ATLANTA (AP) — Flights were canceled and delayed nationwide this morning because of a problem with the FAA system that collects airlines’ flight plans. via Computer glitch delays flights nationwide — latimes.com.

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84 days ago by Sharon K. Gilbert

(BBC NEWS) Nov 17, 2009 — The UN is investigating the crash in the Sahara desert of a cargo plane, which is thought to have been carrying cocaine from Venezuela. via BBC NEWS | Africa | Sahara cocaine plane crash probed.

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90 days ago by Sharon K. Gilbert

(REUTERS) – A major electricity outage left tens of millions of people in Brazil’s two biggest cities without power on Tuesday night due to problems with the transmission lines that connect to the massive Itaipu dam. The blackout affected Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as cities in at least f ...

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