Astronauts Kathryn D. Sullivan, left, and Sally K. Ride are pictured in orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in October 1984. (NASA) (NEW YORK) — For the first time in U.S. history, an all-woman team of astronauts — Anne McClain and Christina Koch — were scheduled to step out into space to repair batteries on …
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Mar 28
Parents: Lack of answers from school board after 5th-grader’s death ‘makes no sense’
Family Photo(WALTERBORO, S.C.) — Parents in a South Carolina community say they are irate by the lack of information being shared by school board members after the death of Raniya Wright, a fifth-grader who was gravely injured during a classroom fight with another student. Raniya, 10, died Wednesday morning after she was involved in what …
Mar 28
“Capital Gazette” victims honored with ‘Freedom of the Press Day’
phot705/iStock(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — The Maryland General Assembly has voted to name June 28 “Freedom of the Press Day” in honor of the Capital Gazette victims who died in a shooting in the newspaper’s Annapolis newsroom last year. Both sides of the legislature voted unanimously to name the day in honor of the slain journalists, the …
Mar 28
Two men wrongfully convicted of murder freed after 43 years behind bars
kickstand/iStock(NEW YORK) – There were bullet holes in the window screen and the curtains, but the main witness said the two shooters were inside and at the foot of her bed. The witness said she saw the muzzle flashes from two guns, but ballistics testing said that the bullets at the scene were fired from …
Mar 28
Four decades after meltdown, Three Mile Island remains symbol of nuclear hazards
Dobresum/iStock(HARRISBURG, Pa.) — The four cooling silos still loom over Three Mile Island, each rising nearly 400 feet above Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River as a constant reminder of both the potential of clean energy and the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history. Thursday marks the 40th anniversary of the partial meltdown of one of the …
Mar 28
Garbage truck crash victims identified
The South Dakota Department of Public Safety has released the names of the two people who died last Thursday afternoon in a one-vehicle crash northeast of Letcher. A 2000 Mack Truck CH600 garbage truck was northbound on Highway 37 near the James River bridge when the vehicle left the roadway to the right. Based on …
Mar 28
Homeland Security secretary asks for new authority to send young migrants back home
Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has asked for immediate action from Congress to address a “dire situation” at the border, including new authority to immediately deport unaccompanied minors back to their home countries. “Now we face a system-wide meltdown,” Nielsen wrote in a letter obtained by ABC …
Mar 28
City of Chicago asks ‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett to pay $130K for cost of investigation
E. JASON WAMBSGANS/AFP/Getty Images(CHICAGO) — The city of Chicago is seeking more than $130,000 from Empire actor Jussie Smollett to pay for the cost of the investigation in which he “falsely claimed” that two men attacked him. The city asked for an “immediate payment” of $130,106.15 “in an attempt to resolve this matter without further …
Mar 28
Now in the spotlight, dissident group linked to North Korean break-in suspends operations
Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images(MADRID) — A shadowy North Korean opposition group accused of a brazen raid of the North Korean embassy in Madrid last month announced that it is “temporarily” suspending operations in the wake of glaring media attention. “Multiple actions targeting the North Korean regime were being prepared, but because of speculative …
Mar 28
Parents’ day in Boston federal court as defendants in massive college entrance scam slated to appear before judge
DNY59/iStock(BOSTON) — It will be a parents’ day unlike any other as a group of wealthy mothers and fathers are scheduled to appear in Boston federal court on charges connected to a nationwide college entrance scam. At least 13 of the 33 parents indicted earlier this month in the stunning $25 million bribery and test-rigging …