Crews in Baltimore will use precision explosives on a collapsed section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge to free the container ship Dali from the wreckage and clear the channel for maritime passage, officials said Wednesday. Small charges will be placed inside precision cuts made in the steel to split a large section of the bridge’s truss at specific locations …
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California regulators on Thursday are likely to change how some power companies calculate their customers’ bills, a decision that would make it less expensive for people to charge electric cars and cool their homes in the summer but would increase prices for those who don’t use as much energy. The California Public Utilities Commission will vote on whether to let …
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A Colorado woman’s attempt to swipe a truck was thwarted after she was left stumped behind the wheel of the stick shift vehicle, police said. “Stick Shift FTW [for the win],” the Boulder Police Department said in a press release. “Not a standard recommendation for car theft prevention, but this past Friday a stick shift kept a thief from getting …
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Sigma Phi Epsilon’s chapter at UNC Greensboro was given a 10-year suspension from the university amid a hazing investigation into the fraternity’s alleged recruitment violations. UNC-Greensboro told Fox News Digital that its chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon has been suspended for a decade after an investigation revealed recruitment violations and hazing. This suspension means that Sigma Phi Epsilon’s “University Affiliation” …
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A former Ohio vice detective who pleaded guilty to federal crimes related to kidnapping sex worker victims under the guise of arresting them was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison. Andrew Mitchell, 60, of Sunbury, will receive credit for the roughly five years he has been in custody since his arrest in April 2019, according to the U.S. Attorney …
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Skeletal remains discovered nearly five decades ago in Arizona have been identified as a Vietnam veteran from Minnesota, authorities said Wednesday. The remains of Gerald Francis Long were first found 40 miles east of Flagstaff off Meteor City Road on April 19, 1975, by farmers chasing a runaway pig, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office said. Over 49 years, detectives developed …
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A commercial truck driver who was acquitted of causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire testified at a hearing Wednesday on his request to reinstate his suspended license, while a lawyer for the state said he still played a role in the 2019 crash. A jury in 2022 found Volodymyr Zhukovskyy not guilty of multiple manslaughter and negligent …
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The man accused of trying to kill a pastor during a Pennsylvania sermon Sunday has been charged with the unrelated murder of his cousin, who police say was killed with the same gun that failed to discharge during a thwarted attack on a Pittsburgh-area church. Bernard Junior Polite, 26, allegedly walked into the Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church in North Braddock, …
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Veterans groups were infuriated and saddened after anti-Israel agitators vandalized a World War I monument in New York City this week, prompting city officials to voice scathing criticism of the demonstrators while noting the irony of their right to protest. Protesters were marching on the city’s Upper East Side on Monday evening near Hunter College and the Metropolitan Museum of …
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An Oklahoma family is still searching for answers nearly a year later for Noah Presgrove, who was found naked and dead along a rural highway on Labor Day. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Presgrove’s body was found in the early hours of Sept. 4, 2023, alongside U.S. Highway 81 approximately 1.2 miles north of Terral, Oklahoma, in Jefferson County. Presgrove’s …
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