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Passengers aboard a Carnival cruise that returned to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Sunday said they spent hours in long lines waiting to get off the ship.The Carnival Freedom docked at Port Everglades early Sunday morning, but some passengers said they were still stuck on the ship by the afternoon, according to NBC affiliate WPTV.A sign posted at the port blamed the long lines on sequester cuts."Due t...
A Homestead, Fla., man is facing DUI and reckless driving charges after authorities said he was clocked driving 127 mph with three small children in his car Saturday night in the Florida Keys.Robert Rioseco, 46, is facing three counts of DUI with someone under 18 in the car, three counts of cruelty toward a child, one count of reckless driving and refusing to submit to a DUI test, the Monroe C...
Red-light camera tickets may be returning to a stop light near you with a reduced fine, and a likelihood that you pay no matter what if Assembly Bill 666 is approved in California.AB 666 -- also known as the “Devil’s Bill” by the opposition -- was introduced by Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski in Sacramento early February, and would make the process of settling a red light camera ticket a civil pro...
An Alaska State Troopers helicopter with three people on board crashed while on a night rescue mission and no survivors were found, authorities said Sunday.About 10 p.m. Saturday, the helicopter, carrying a pilot and a trooper, picked up a snowmobiler who had been reported stranded near Talkeetna north of Anchorage, the State Troopers said in a dispatch. The pilot radioed that the copter was en ro...
A man drove a car into a San Jose Walmart, then grabbed a blunt object and began beating customers Sunday morning, police said.Police said they received word that a car had driven into the Walmart at 777 Story Road at 11:15 a.m.They said the driver then got out of the car, grabbed a blunt object from inside the store and began hitting people with it.Four people were injured, one of them seriously....
An ExxonMobil pipeline rupture near Little Rock, Ark., Friday evening has resulted in a “major oil spill,” according to the Environmental Protection Agency -- and ignited further debate over the transportation of crude oil in the U.S. Up to 10,000 barrels sprang from the pipeline, according to an incident report filed to the National Response Center by ExxonMobil early Saturday morning. Twenty-tw...
Dust from China's Gobi Desert drifted thousands of miles to hang over a central California mountain range this week, according to the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, a California regional government agency that monitors the environment.The massive dust event on March 10 blew sediment from the Gobi Desert across eastern China, prompting health warnings that pollution levels w...
Three people have been were killed and at least 20 injured after a massive 75-car pileup on Interstate 77 near the Virginia and North Carolina border Sunday afternoon, according to authorities.The crash began around 1 p.m. in the southbound lane in Carroll County, Virginia, according to Virginia State Police. Excessive fog in the Fancy Gap Mountain area is being blamed for the massive accident.Bot...
The White House might be celebrating Easter today, but for many, including the family of slain teen Hadiya Pendleton, the real celebration begins Monday at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.The First Lady reportedly invited Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton and her 10-year-old son Nathaniel to the White House event, just one of many events the family has attended since the January slaying of their b...
The grass is not that green for the New England cottontail rabbit anymore, as its habitat is disappearing — and if there is no intervention the Massachusetts famous rabbit could become extinct, experts warn.This rabbit species was once so popular that it inspired Peter Cottontail, Thornton Burgess children’s story character, a century ago, as well as songs, comic strips, movies and television spe...
