Airport personnel spotted three objects falling from a plane that was departing Ecuador for New York on Monday, watching them fall almost 1,000 feet just after takeoff, according to The Washington Post. After staff rushed to the area out of fear that Latam AirlinesFlight XL1438 had lost essential parts of its landing gear before leaving the port city of Guayaquil, but instead they found two teenagers ... Marcelo Tobar ... The U.S....
White House communications director HopeHicks, one of PresidentDonald Trump's longest-serving aides, said Wednesday she plans to resign, Politico reported.Hicks announced her resignation in a statement provided by the White House, in which she did not say what she planned to do next."There are no words to adequately express my gratitude to President Trump ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....
BEIRUT (AP) — The Russia-ordered brief humanitarian pause was in effect for a second day Wednesday in rebel-held Damascus suburbs but no civilians used the corridor manned by Syrian and Russian forces to leave the enclave. Government forces, meanwhile, tried to push their way into the area, setting off ground battles ...Russia has ordered a five-hour daily humanitarian pause to allow civilians to exit the region that started Tuesday ... ———....
(AP) — NorthCarolina’s attorney general says the state has more than 15,000 untested sexual assault kits, a number that one national advocacy group called “significant.”....
A pregnant woman has been caught up in a police chase on Auckland's North Shore after her car was rammed by a 14-year-old driver fleeing from police ...North of the Johnstones Hill Tunnels near Puhoi, police deployed ... The pregnant driver was taken to North Shore Hospital, and thankfully both she and her unborn baby are okay....
Road spikes were also deployed just north of the Johnstones Hill Tunnels. Photo. NZ Herald Two teenagers have been apprehended after fleeing from police and ramming a stolen car into a pregnant woman's vehicle north of Auckland... ....
North-eastern areas have more snow than milder south-western areas ... According to a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the fraction of precipitation falling as snow in winter has changed little in places that are more than 55 degrees north of the equator ... Around the Great Lakes of NorthAmerica, for example, there's actually been a large increase in the amount of lake-effect snow observed ... Related Topics. ....
Eight years ago, in the wake of Hege's felony conviction, NorthCarolina voters overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the state constitution that prohibits felons from serving as a sheriff in North Carolina ... Eight years ago, in the wake of Hege's felony conviction, North Carolina voters overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the state constitution that prohibits felons from serving as sheriff in North Carolina....
NEW DELHI. Be prepared for a hot spring and a scorching summer ... These months are expected to be particularly merciless in northIndia. Delhi, along with Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan, is likely to see average temperatures soar over 1.5 degrees above normal ... “Overall, the temperature anomaly patterns show increase in the magnitudes of the anomalies from southeastern parts to the north-western parts of the country”, said the IMD. ....
With the Friday night high tide the shoreline at greatest risk is along Salisbury and Newburyport on the North Shore, and Plymouth on the South Shore.� "The astronomical high tide is about three-quarters of a foot less, but this could be largely offset by still higher surge and wave values," the weather service said....
LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — The former NorthCarolina sheriff known for painting his jail cells pink and hosting a cable television show before pleading guilty to felony obstruction of justice announced on Wednesday that he wants his old job back ... 1 ... Hege's loss in the primary prompted state lawmakers to offer a constitutional amendment banning felons from running for sheriff in North Carolina. It passed with 85 percent of the vote statewide....
(AP) — When the filing deadline to run for NorthCarolina's congressional and legislative seats arrived Wednesday, Democrats made good on their plans to compete in every corner of the state ... More than 60 people have signed up to run for North Carolina's 13 congressional seats, of which Republicans currently hold 10....