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Dog starts house fire by chewing portable phone battery, officials say

Dog starts house fire by chewing portable phone battery, officials say

Tulsa Fire Department/Facebook (TULSA, Okla.) — A dog in Tulsa, Oklahoma, started a house fire after biting into a lithium ion battery, fire officials said. The Tulsa Fire Department recently released dramatic footage of the fire, which took place in May, showing the portable cellphone battery sparking and bursting into […]

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NASA says Boeing’s Starliner astronauts may have to come home on different spacecraft

NASA says Boeing’s Starliner astronauts may have to come home on different spacecraft

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The two astronauts who went up to the International Space Station (ISS) on Boeing’s Starliner may have to come home on a different spacecraft, NASA officials said during a press conference Wednesday. Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams, who performed the first crewed […]

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Caltrans workers clear the remains of a 100-foot eucalyptus tree from the northbound lanes of Highway 13 in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021. Heavy overnight rains in Northern California left two people dead in a submerged car as authorities on Thursday urged residents of several Southern California mountain and canyon communities to voluntarily leave their homes because of possible mud and debris flows. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group via AP)

Multiple motorists rescued from flooded roadways in New Jersey and New York

Gerald French/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Multiple motorists stranded on flooded roadways in New York and New Jersey had to be rescued from their submerged vehicles Tuesday night as some parts of the region got six inches of rain in about three hours, according to officials. The super-soaker storm brought […]

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Man in ‘intimate relationship’ with Detroit neurosurgeon charged in his murder: Prosecutor

Man in ‘intimate relationship’ with Detroit neurosurgeon charged in his murder: Prosecutor

Ascension Michigan (DETROIT) — A man in an “intimate relationship” with a Michigan neurosurgeon has been charged in the doctor’s slaying, authorities announced Wednesday. Dr. Devon Hoover, 53, was found shot dead in his Detroit home on April 23, 2023, prosecutors said. He was shot twice in the head and […]

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Wrongful death lawsuit filed over Titan submersible implosion

Wrongful death lawsuit filed over Titan submersible implosion

David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The estate of a Titanic researcher who was among the five people killed when the Titan submersible catastrophically imploded while on a deep-dive voyage to the site of the famous shipwreck last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking more than […]

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Harvard ‘failed its Jewish students’ and must face antisemitism lawsuit, judge rules

Harvard ‘failed its Jewish students’ and must face antisemitism lawsuit, judge rules

Mel Musto/Bloomberg via Getty Images (BOSTON) — Harvard University “failed its Jewish students” and must face a lawsuit over antisemitism on campus following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel, a federal judge in Boston ruled. Judge Richard Stearns said Jewish students plausibly claimed Harvard had been indifferent to their […]

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Tropical Storm Debby live updates: More flooding expected as storm nears 2nd landfall

Tropical Storm Debby live updates: More flooding expected as storm nears 2nd landfall

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Debby is slamming the Southeast with heavy rain after making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on Monday. At least six people have been killed in Florida and Georgia. Here’s how the news is developing: Latest forecast Tropical Storm Debby — […]

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Tropical Storm Debby live updates: South Carolina forecast for storm’s second landfall

Tropical Storm Debby live updates: South Carolina forecast for storm’s second landfall

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Debby is slamming the Southeast with heavy rain after making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on Monday. At least six people have been killed in Florida and Georgia. Here’s how the news is developing: Curfew lifted in Charleston A city-wide […]

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Tropical Storm Debby live updates: Storm churns in Atlantic ahead of second landfall

Tropical Storm Debby live updates: Storm churns in Atlantic ahead of second landfall

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Debby is slamming the Southeast with heavy rain after making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on Monday. At least six people have been killed in Florida and Georgia. Here’s how the news is developing: Debby’s winds at 45 mph ahead […]

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Newly released documents detail chaotic moments after Alaska Airlines door plug blowout

Newly released documents detail chaotic moments after Alaska Airlines door plug blowout

Jennifer Homendy, Chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, speaks during investigative hearing, into the blowout of a left mid exit door plug on a Boeing 737-9 MAX during Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 flight on January 5, 2024, at the National Transportation Safety Board headquarters in Washington D.C. United States […]

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