According to wftv.com, authorities in Volusia County said they are searching for a missing 17-year-old tourist who is visiting the area from Missouri. Officials said Nicole Crowder, 17, was last seen on the beach near the Econo Lodge at 1601 S. Atlantic Avenue Saturday around 5:30 p.m. She was with an unknown black man and woman when she was seen, according to officials. Read article
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As reported by Cnn.com, two people died after a Boeing 777 from South Korea crashed Saturday upon landing at San Francisco’s airport, sending up a huge fireball, shedding its tail and spinning before screeching to a stop. Asiana Airlines Flight 214 left Seoul’s Incheon International Airport earlier Saturday, according to FlightAware, a website that offers […]
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As reported by Usatoday.com, an Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul crashed on landing at San Francisco’s airport Saturday, killing two passengers, injuring more than 180 and and forcing dozens of frightened passengers and crew to scamper from the aircraft using inflatable emergency exit slides. One passenger remained unaccounted for late Saturday afternoon. There were 307 […]
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According to keysnews.com, a Duval Street store recently cited for breaking city code laws is already back under code enforcement review after a tourist complained she was ripped off. City of Key West Code Enforcement fined Vine Vera, 102 Duval St., $500 on June 26 along with a $4,500 suspended fine with the stipulation that […]
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Accoring to CNN, an Asiana Airlines’ Boeing 777 crashed Saturday while landing at San Francisco International Airport, sending up a huge fireball and spinning before finally coming to a stop — having lost its tail and, eventually, much of its roof. Flight 214 left Seoul’s Incheon International Airport earlier Saturday and flew 10 hours and […]
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According to poconorecord.com, a Sciota man escaped serious injury when his plane crashed just outside Braden Airpark in Forks Township Thursday, the Express-Times reported. The pilot escaped with only a finger laceration, authorities said. The plane came to a rest about 4:55 in a field near the Wells Fargo Bank at 1300 Uhler Road. No […]
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Mercurynews.com reports that Annais Rittenberg, 21, the art counselor who died at Camp Tawonga near Yosemite National Park when a giant oak spontaneously fell next to the dining hall, was studying environmental conservation at UC Santa Cruz and wanted a career involving nature and possibly photography. The Porter College student, spending her second summer as […]
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According to The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens to defer travel to Egypt and U.S. citizens living in Egypt to depart at this time because of the continuing political and social unrest. This Travel Warning supersedes the Travel Warning issued on June 28, 2013. On July 3, 2013, the Department of State ordered […]
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According to Washingtonpost.com, Washington Post’s Ernesto Londono reports that the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, fearing a further security breakdown, ordered the mandatory evacuation of all personnel deemed non-essential. “We will begin departures immediately, with the expectation that all evacuees will have left for the States by this weekend,” embassy employees were told in an e-mail […]
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According to abs-cbnnews.com, Leanne Binyas-Semana, 30 and Aylene Semana, 28, residents of Milpitas were fishing with their husbands at Bonny Doon beach near Santa Cruz when they got caught in the high surf and drowned. State parks officials said the husbands, who are brothers, jumped into the ocean to save their wives, but were pushed […]
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