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An ExpressJet Airlines flight was forced to turn back twice after takeoff because of different maintenance alerts on Thursday while another of the airline’s planes was forced to turn back after a bird strike.In a statement, ExpressJet said Thursday's flight 6063 from Denver to Louisville, Kentucky, “returned to Denver after takeoff due to a maintenance alert in the flight deck.”“The flight return...
People are getting all twitchy about the bugs that are coming out in New York and New Jersey after a 17-year buildup, but when it comes to cicadas, Billy Tesh is seeing the real deal in North Carolina."I was so excited," Tesh told NBC News from Greensboro, where he runs a company called Pest Management Systems. "I've never seen so many in one location in my life. They were on almost every blade of...
In the fall of 2011, a key Boston police counterterror intelligence unit -- funded with millions of dollars in U.S. homeland security grants -- was closely monitoring anti-Wall Street demonstrations, including tracking the Facebook pages and websites of the protesters and writing reports on the potential impact on "commercial and financial sector assets" in downtown areas, according to interna...
An Ohio prosecutor who on Thursday pledged to seek murder charges against the Cleveland kidnapping suspect for allegedly pummeling the pregnant stomach of one of his reported victims — causing her to frequently miscarry — may ultimately struggle to prove the blows led to those fetuses' deaths, said one former federal prosecutor.To secure a guilty verdict for fetal homicide, prosecutors typically h...
LOS ANGELES - A 63-year-old woman was fatally mauled by a pack of pit bulls while walking near her home in Southern California on Thursday and police were searching for the four dogs, law enforcement officials said.A driver called police Thursday morning to report that four dogs were mauling the woman by the side of a road in a remote high desert area near Palmdale, California, Los Angeles County ...
Authorities in Boston knew nothing about the request from Russia for information about deceased suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev or about his subsequent trips to the country, the city's police commissioner told lawmakers Thursday at the first Congressional hearing on the Marathon bombings.Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis told Congress that none of the four people assigned to the FBI's Joint Terror...
