UPDATE: Spirit Airlines stated Thursday that a gate agent at Philadelphia International Airport escorted the child in question to the incorrect flight. “This agent is no longer working with Spirit, and any individual whose actions resulted in the incorrect boarding will be held accountable for failing to follow our procedures,” the airline wrote.The boy’s grandmother, Maria
Before the year is over, a lucky someone could win the estimated life-altering US$760 million (over C$1 billion) Powerball jackpot. The prize inflated from US$700 million (more than C$925.9 million) after Wednesday’s draw failed to produce a winning ticket. According to Powerball rules, when a jackpot goes unclaimed, the prize rolls over into the lottery’s
A 23-year-old woman was shot and killed by her 14-year-old brother during a “domestic altercation” over Christmas presents, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. The shooting took place on Christmas Eve in Largo, a city in the Tampa Bay area.The incident involved 23-year-old Abrielle Baldwin, a mother of two and the victim
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Laura Lynch, a founding member of the U.S. country band “Dixie Chicks,” died in a head-on car crash on a Texas highway, law enforcement said on Saturday. “We are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Laura Lynch,” the band, which renamed itself “The Chicks” in 2020, wrote
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The list of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates is set to be made public in early January, after a federal judge in New York ordered a vast unsealing of court documents. According to media reports, Judge Loretta Preska ordered the documents unsealed in the since-settled defamation lawsuit that Epstein’s
A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former president Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the
A suspect accused of murdering a 16-year-old cheerleader whose body was found days earlier in her bathtub has been arrested. Police in Edna, Texas, say they found Lizabeth Medina dead last week on Dec. 5 after being called to an apartment building in reference to an “unresponsive juvenile.” In a news release, police confirmed they
Descrease article font size Increase article font size California police have arrested and charged a man after a grandpa was sucker-punched in the face and left in the street while taking his infant grandchild for a walk in a stroller. Angel Sanchez Jr., 29, of Santa Barbara, is suspected of attacking two victims this past
The U.S. House voted on Friday to expel Republican Rep. George Santos of New York after a blistering ethics report on his conduct heightened lawmakers’ concerns about the scandal-plagued freshman. Santos became just the sixth member in the chamber’s history to be ousted by colleagues, and the third since the Civil War. The vote to
For years, South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh looked his anguished clients in the eyes and promised to help them with their medical bills, their suffering or simply to survive. Then he stole some, if not all, of what he won for many of them. Those clients got to look Murdaugh in the eye Tuesday and