'Terrible mistake': Minnesota hospital sends stillborn baby to laundry service A Minnesota hospital apologized Wednesday after the remains of a stillborn baby boy wrapped in linens were mistaken for dirty laundry and delivered to a cleaning service.Regions Hospital officials said they were notifying the stillborn infant’s family to apologize and providing counseling to employees at the laundromat where the baby was found Tuesday.“This is a terrible mistake, and we are deeply... More
Couple accused of abducting kids returned to Florida, placed under arrest Police say Joshua Hakken tied his mother-in-law up around 6:00 a.m. last Wednesday in Tampa and drove off with the two children, who were still in their pajamas. After ditching a black pickup truck that was later recovered by police, the Hakkens apparently boarded a blue 25-foot sailboat and left John's Pass Marina in Madeira Beach, Fla., bound for Cuba. More
Reports: Ex-Sooners QB killed in plane crash A University of Oklahoma official says the starting quarterback for Oklahoma's national championship teams in 1974 and 1975 is one of two men killed when a small plane slammed into a house in northern Indiana. More
Don't use TurboTax, Minnesota Department of Revenue warns taxpayers Citing "multiple issues with the products", the Minnesota Department of Revenue issued a crisp statement today urging tax filers to avoid using Intuit products to prepare or file their state income taxes. The products include TurboTax, Lacerte, Intuit online and ProSeries. More
Storms dumps snow from Minnesota to Tennessee A winter storm dropped heavy snow Monday and churned up sharp gusts of wind across a swath of the Northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley before it was expected to push east. More
15-Year-Old Girl Abducted in Mapusa Found Safe; Alleged Abductor Revealed as Minor A 15-year-old girl, who was reported missing on Friday, May 17, has been found safe. However, the circumstances surrounding her disappearance took a surprising turn as it was revealed that the alleged ... 05/20/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
10-year-old boy abducted and murdered for ransom in Prayagraj, two arrested The boy's body was discovered in the Handia area on Sunday. Two individuals, including one of the victim's neighbors, have been arrested in connection with the incident. 05/19/2024 - 5:30 pm | View Link
10-year-old boy abducted, killed for ransom; two held The murdered boy’s kin and a large number of locals reached Kydganj police station and raised slogans against the police. 05/19/2024 - 2:16 pm | View Link
“Where is Mama?” – How a Ukrainian boy was abducted by Russian forces Sasha and his family lived in Mariupol. In the first month of the full-scale invasion, he was forcefully separated from his mother and brought to occupied Donetsk. For weeks, his grandmother Liudmyla ... 05/17/2024 - 5:30 pm | View Link
Rajasthan: 4-Yr-Old Missing Child, Boy Abducted 10 Yrs Ago Rescued From Gang; 5 Held According to the police, the four-year-old boy was abducted from Kota on the night of May 5 by a gang of Haryana and taken to Bhopal. The government railway police (GRP) recovered the children after ... 05/14/2024 - 12:13 pm | View Link
A second flag of a type carried by rioters during the attack on the U. S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was displayed outside a house owned by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
An “Appeal to Heaven” flag was flown outside Alito’s beach vacation home last summer.
The first time Elle Barbeito skinned an invasive Burmese python she almost lost her lunch. Twice. Initially she nicked the snake’s stomach with the razor and semi-digested prey spilled out. Things got even more disgusting farther down the digestive system.
Despite the disgust, Barbeito was after beauty. And she found it, not only in the edgy fashion pieces she makes out of invasive Burmese pythons that she and her father catch, but in the larger process of removing a magnificent but highly destructive predator from her beloved Florida.
It’s a blisteringly hot morning in her father’s backyard in Cutler Bay, south of Miami, and the 27-year-old Barbeito pinches the skin on the belly of a thawing 7-foot python and starts meticulously cutting.
By KEN SWEET (AP Business Writer)
NEW YORK (AP) — The bank accounts of tens of thousands of U. S. businesses and consumers have been frozen in the aftermath of the abrupt shutdown and bankruptcy of financial technology company Synapse, which acts as a middleman between financial technology companies and banks.
Synapse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April and has shut down its services to some of its fintech or bank partners, including Evolve Bank & Trust.
By SEAN MURPHY (Associated Press)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A wind farm in southwest Iowa suffered a direct hit from a powerful tornado that crumpled five of the massive, power-producing towers, including one that burst into flames. But experts say fortunately such incidents are rare.
Video of the direct hit on the wind farm near Greenfield, Iowa, showed frightening images of the violent twister ripping through the countryside, uprooting trees, damaging buildings and sending dirt and debris high into the air.
Several of the turbines at MidAmerican Energy Company’s Orient wind farm recorded wind speeds of more than 100 mph as the tornadoes approached just before the turbines were destroyed, the company said in a statement.
“This was an unprecedented impact on our wind fleet, and we have operated wind farms since 2004,” MidAmerican said.
While there have been isolated incidents of tornadoes or hurricanes damaging wind turbines, fortunately such occurrences are extremely rare, said Jason Ryan, a spokesperson for the American Clean Power Association.
Although requirements vary from state to state about how far turbines must be located from other structures, Ryan said the giant turbines are not placed directly next to homes and other occupied structures.
There are currently nearly 73,000 wind turbines in operation across the country, he said.
In the space of 10 days, two of South Florida’s international airports have been the scenes of big airliners — including the Boeing 757 used by former President Donald Trump — involved in separate wing-clipping incidents while they rumbled their way to remote parking places.
The Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged Wednesday it is investigating both episodes, neither of which involved any injuries.
The most recent incident involved an Atlas Air Boeing 747 cargo jet.
FORT LAUDERDALE — Say your neighbor has a yacht so big that it dwarfs the dock behind his home. Do you call the city to complain?
Michael Meldeau did. It wound up getting him sued by one Steven Howell, owner of the yacht.
The two men live on Delmar Place in Fort Lauderdale’s upscale Las Olas Isles, just north of Las Olas and west of the Intracoastal.
The yearslong feud isn’t your run-of-the-mill neighborhood dispute.