Twenty minutes before 26-year-old Asra Hussain-Raza and the other 63 people aboard American Eagle Flight 5342 were supposed to land at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night, she texted her husband for what would be the final time. “We’re landing in 20,” Hussain-Raza texted her husband, Hamaad Raza, per multiple reports. Hussain-Raza would become one of the 64 people who…
DAYTONA BEACH — Jonathan Jay Campos of Ormond Beach was one of the American Airlines pilots in the Washington, D.C., crash over the Potomac River Wednesday night. Campos was the captain of American Airlines Flight 5342, which went down in a tragic midair collision with a military helicopter about 400 feet above the river near Reagan Washington National Airport….
TV and radio personality Matt Pinfield was hospitalized earlier this month after suffering a medical crisis. The former MTV VJ, 63, suffered a “massive stroke” on Jan. 6, according to court documents obtained Thursday by USA TODAY. Pinfield’s daughter, Jessica Pinfield, filed a petition Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court to place her father under a temporary…
Married figure skating champions. A student returning to college after attending a funeral. A lawyer heading home from a work trip on her birthday. Members of a steamfitters union. A 28-year-old airline officer engaged to be married in the fall. Three members of a military helicopter crew. Wednesday night’s crash between American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army…
With her eyes fixed straight ahead, first lady Melania Trump leans forward onto an impossibly reflective surface — is it a desk, a mirror, a cool surface of water? — as her perfectly manicured fingertips hold her balance. It’s the kind of power stance you’d expect from a particularly confident contestant on “The Apprentice.” Instead,…
A proposed ballot measure would require law enforcement in Colorado to cooperate with federal immigration detainer requests. The measure, filed by the conservative advocacy group Advance Colorado, is in response to Colorado’s so-called “Sanctuary State” status protecting illegal immigrants. “State and local law enforcement must cooperate with federal requests to notify the Department of Homeland…
Housing and land use experts say a Los Angeles city law could require the Pacific Palisades to include “affordable” housing to replace older buildings, and for new buildings where owners cannot definitively prove that their rental apartments had no low-income renters in the past five years. The new Resident Protections Ordinance taking effect soon requires that “In Higher…
Questions are swirling around the midair collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter Wednesday night, with President Donald Trump saying Thursday the tragedy was preventable. A cause of the crash has not been determined, according to leaders of the District of Columbia, the Transportation Department, Defense Department and DC Fire and EMS,…
WASHINGTON – It was the type of moment when Americans traditionally look to a leader for comfort: grieving the loss of 67 people killed when a commercial airliner and a military helicopter collided over the skies of Washington. And when Donald Trump stepped behind the White House briefing room podium on Thursday to fulfill his role as…
(The Center Square) – Renewable energy advocates have long called for building battery complexes to store intermittent solar and wind energy, but a recent fire that spewed toxic heavy metals all around a California battery storage facility that went up in flames have some leaders wondering whether the new technology is worth the risk and environmental…