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March 13, 2019 at 5:07 pm
Waterloo, IL - Authorities say a 4-year-old boy and his grandparents were rescued after their small plane crashed in southern Illinois.
The fixed-wing single-engine Piper PA-32 was traveling from Mobile, Alabama, when it went down Tuesday in rural Monroe County on its way to St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia, Illinois.
The plane crashed into the yard of Waterloo police officer Trin Daws. He says he and another man broke the plane’s windows with a fire extinguisher and pulled the boy out.
Sheriff’s Maj. Jim Lansing says the boy, his grandmother and his grandfather were talking when they were taken to hospitals. He says they suffered injuries that weren’t life threatening.
Lansing says the grandmother told authorities a warning light went on, oil was spewing onto th...
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March 13, 2019 at 5:07 pm
New York - Verizon Communications Inc said on Wednesday its customers in Chicago and Minneapolis would be able to use its fifth generation wireless network from April 11 by paying $10 per month with any of its unlimited mobile plans.
5G, the next-generation wireless network, is expected to offer data speeds up to 50 or 100 times faster than 4G networks.
Verizon said its customers will need a Motorola Z3 mobile and a device called 5G moto mod to connect to the 5G network.
The largest U.S. wireless carrier by subscribers will offer the device for $50 initially and its customers would not have to pay for 5G use for the first three months.
Verizon launched its first commercial 5G service in October when its 5G Home offering went live in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Sacramento.
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March 13, 2019 at 5:07 pm
Clarksburg, WV - The FBI says two people have been arrested after a vehicle crashed through a gate at its facility in northern West Virginia.
News outlets report the vehicle went through the gate at the Criminal Justice Information Services Division facility in Clarksburg on Tuesday and went over a hill. The FBI office in Pittsburgh says in a statement that both suspects fled on foot before being apprehended.
The statement says the incident is not believed to be related to terrorism.
The names of the suspects were not released. No charges were immediately filed, and the incident remains under investigation.
The FBI’s website says the high-tech facility provides “state of-the-art tools and services” to law enforcement, the national security and intelligence community a...
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March 13, 2019 at 5:04 pm
Washington - The Federal Aviation Administration says new evidence from the Ethiopian Airlines crash site coupled with its own data gathering led it to order the grounding of Boeing 737 Max planes.
The agency’s order Wednesday said new information had been uncovered from the wreckage of the Ethiopian Airlines jet. That, taken together with data from satellite-based tracking of the plane’s flight path, pointed to similarities with an October crash of a Lion Air 737 Max in the Java Sea.
The FAA said it was ordering the jets’ grounding while investigators determine whether there was a shared cause of the two crashes.
The agency’s move Wednesday came after it had faced mounting criticism for backing the airworthiness of the 737 Max jets as countries around the world ...
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March 13, 2019 at 5:04 pm
Toms River, NJ - Seeds of contention and mistrust that have been blooming in the greater Lakewood area as Orthodox Jews continue relocating in large numbers to Ocean County were countered Tuesday night as a diverse group of women from all walks of life spent several hours building relationships and enjoying each other’s company at a Toms River challah making event.140 women gathered at the Ramada Hotel and Suites on Route 9 to dig their hands into flour, water, eggs, oil, salt, sugar and yeast as part of the #KneadKindness challah bake. Toms River resident Tova Herskovitz, one of the event’s organizers, said that participants included just over two dozen Orthodox Jewish women.
“The mix was amazing,” Herskovitz told VIN News. “We had women of all a...
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March 13, 2019 at 4:33 pm
Former House speaker Paul Ryan went on Twitter Wednesday to predict President Donald Trump will win reelection in 2020 – an apparent effort to clean up remarks earlier this week in which he said a Democrat could prevail if the race turns on Trump’s personality.
During a lecture Monday in Vero Beach, Florida, Ryan said that he thinks there are Democrats in the 2020 field who could defeat Trump, according to an account by Treasure Coast Newspapers that was highlighted Tuesday by other media outlets.
“The person who defines that race is going to win the race. If this is about Donald Trump and his personality, he isn’t going to win it,” Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, reportedly said.
Ryan, who had a rocky relationship with Trump during the 2016 campaign and part...
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March 13, 2019 at 4:33 pm
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and special envoy Jason Greenblatt discussed the Trump administration’s upcoming Mideast peace plan on Monday with Jordanian King Abdullah, reported Reuters, citing a U.S. source familiar with the 45-minute meeting that occurred at the Jordanian ambassador’s residence in Washington.
The peace plan is scheduled to be released after Israeli elections on April 9.
Additionally, Abdullah met with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence to discuss the battle against Islamic State and the administration’s decision to leave a small force in Syria, according to the vice president’s office.
The king also met with U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan to discuss defense and military cooperation be...
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March 13, 2019 at 4:03 pm
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were lower Wednesday amid continuing global uncertainties that weighed on stocks as some traders took profits from a rally earlier in the week.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 dropped 1.2 percent to 21,243.26 in morning trading. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.5 percent to 6,141.30. South Korea's Kospi slipped 0.9 percent to 2,136.52. Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.5 percent to 28,776.10, while the Shanghai Composite dipped 0.8 percent at 3,035.15.
On Wall Street, Boeing weighed down the Dow Jones Industrial Average for a second day as shares in the aircraft maker fell amid safety concerns following a second deadly crash involving its most popular plane. The company led a slide in industrial sector stocks.
The benchmark S&P 500 index...
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March 13, 2019 at 3:56 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Colleges and companies moved swiftly to distance themselves from employees swept up in a nationwide college admissions scheme, many of them coaches accused of taking bribes and others prominent parents accused of angling to get their children into top schools by portraying them as recruited athletes.
That celebrities were among the accused parents — actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman headline the list — created much buzz, but other parents charged included people prominent in law, finance, fashion, manufacturing and other fields — people who could afford the steep price.
At least nine athletic coaches and 33 parents were among those charged. Some parents spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, as much as $6.5 million, to guarantee thei...
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March 13, 2019 at 3:54 pm
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — The Latest on Brexit (all times local):
8:20 p.m.
Britain’s Parliament has voted to reject having the country leave the European Union without a divorce agreement, a decision that lessens but does not remove the chance of a chaotic “no-deal” Brexit.
The vote Wednesday night also increases the chances that Britain’s exit from the bloc will be delayed.
British lawmakers voted 312 to 308 for a motion that “rejects the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without a Withdrawal Agreement and a Framework for the Future relationship.”
The vote has political but not legal force. A no-deal Brexit could still happen unless Britain and the EU ratify a divorce agreement or Britain decides to cancel its departure.
British law...
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March 13, 2019 at 3:46 pm
A mass grave of Holocaust victims was allegedly desecrated by grave diggers looking for gold in the Ukrainian town of Rafalivka.
According to a report by JTA, the community discovered a large hole in the center of the sectioned-off pit filled with the remains of Jews who were murdered by the Nazis in 1942.
Rafalivka was home to about 600 Jews in 1939.
In 1941, the Nazis and their supporters rounded up 2,500 Jews from Rafalivka and the surrounding area in Ukraine’s northwest, and moved them into a ghetto. On Aug. 29, 1942, the Nazis marched the Jews into the woods, forced them to dig large pits and shot the people, who fell into the mass grave.
The grave diggers were apparently searching for gold, jewels and other precious items the Jews were wearing when they were slaughtered.
T...
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March 13, 2019 at 2:52 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the U.S. is issuing an emergency order grounding all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft in the wake of a crash of an Ethiopian Airliner that killed 157 people.
Many nations in the world had already barred the Boeing 737 Max 8 from its airspace, but until now, the Federal Aviation Administration had been saying that it didn’t have any data to show the jets are unsafe.
Trump said Wednesday that the FAA would be making the announcement soon to ground the planes.
He says any plane currently in the air will go to its destination and then be grounded.
Trump says pilots and airlines have been notified.
He says the safety of the American people is of “paramount concern.”
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March 13, 2019 at 1:18 pm
Washington - The U.S. State Department changed its usual description of the Golan Heights from “Israeli-occupied” to “Israeli-controlled” in an annual global human rights report released on Wednesday.
A separate section on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, areas that Israel captured along with the Golan Heights in a 1967 Middle East war, also did not refer to those territories as being “occupied” or under “occupation”.
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March 13, 2019 at 12:42 pm
When Andy Klein saw a problem, he got it fixed. He either did it himself or rallied the community to do it. The business executive was behind Harford County getting a new hospital in Bel Air 20 years ago, Temple Adas Shalom being renovated, the Senator Bob Hooper House being built and the new Upper Chesapeake Behavioral Health Center.
Mr. Klein was one of two persons killed in a crash on Route 24 Monday. He was 65 and lived in Forest Hill.
“Andy wasn’t a slick motivational speaker, but he was totally sincere, totally committed. You picked up on it and felt moved to join his causes,” said Rabbi Gila Ruskin of Temple Adas Shalom in Havre de Grace.
Mr. Klein was president of Klein’s Family Markets, the company that operates nine ShopRite stores in Maryland...
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March 13, 2019 at 12:35 pm
HEJERE, Ethiopia (AP) — The Latest on The Latest on Ethiopian Airlines crash (all times local):
12:05 p.m.
Canada's transport minister says the country is closing air space to the Boeing 737 Max 8 jet following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner that killed 157 people.
Canada becomes the latest country to bar the Boeing 737 Max as the investigation into the latest crash, the second in just over five months, is underway.
Transport Minister Marc Garneau said new information they received Wednesday morning in the form of satellite data shows a possible but unproven similarity to a previous Max 8 crash.
Boeing has said it has no reason to pull the popular aircraft from the skies and does not intend to issue new recommendations about the aircraft to customers.
Given th...
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March 13, 2019 at 12:35 pm
Washington - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to make it harder for Republicans to avoid an embarrassing Senate rebuff of President Donald Trump’s effort to steer billions of extra federal dollars to building barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border by declaring a national emergency.
As the White House and GOP senators sought a compromise on curbing a president’s power to unilaterally declare such emergencies in the future, Pelosi said Wednesday that the House would not take up that legislation if it passed the Senate.
GOP senators are hoping that if Trump endorses that bill, more Republicans would oppose a separate resolution, set for a vote Thursday, that would block the border emergency he proclaimed last month.
If Trump’s border emergency stands, he could divert $...
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March 13, 2019 at 12:22 pm
Boston - A college entrance exam policy aimed at helping students with disabilities was exploited to enable cheating in what is being described as the biggest school admissions scandal ever prosecuted by federal authorities, according to court papers.
At least 50 people were charged in the scheme, which included not only cheating on the admissions tests but also bribing coaches to gain admission for students into elite schools. Among the defendants were actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.
A federal affidavit made public Tuesday details allegations of test administrators being bribed “to allow a third party to facilitate cheating” on the ACT and SAT exams. The document says that in some cases, that involved providing answers, correcting answers after the fact or havi...
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March 13, 2019 at 12:20 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort (all times local):
12:15 p.m.
A federal judge has sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to more than 3 1/2 additional years in prison.
That's on top of the roughly four-year sentence he received in a separate case in Virginia last week.
The sentence followed a scathing assessment by the judge and a prosecutor of Manafort's crimes.
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10:55 a.m.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is apologizing for his crimes.
Manafort, 69, betrayed no emotion as he read his statement in federal court Wednesday from his wheelchair.
The judge said she'd give Manafort credit for accepting responsibility for his crimes when she determines his sentence.
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