Police are investigating a train accident that occurred Saturday in Delray Beach, Florida. NBC affiliate WPTV of West Palm Beach reported that the accident involved a Brightline train and a Delray Beach Fire Rescue truck near the intersection of East Atlantic Avenue and SE 1st Avenue in Delray Beach. Three firefighters were injured and hospitalized,...
NBA Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas announced Thursday that he has been diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy. The 63-year-old former Detroit Pistons point guard appeared on “The Mark Jackson Show” on YouTube where he spoke with hosts Jackson and his son, Mark Jackson Jr., about the new recently-announced NBA format. During the second part of the...
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid Chess Championship Friday after he refused to change out of a pair of jeans, a direct violation of the International Chess Federation’s rules. FIDE said Carlsen, a five-time World Chess Champion and seven-time World Blitz Chess Champion, breached long-standing regulations for the event. Carlsen, 34, was notified...
Seventeen million people across the South are under the threat of damaging winds, strong tornadoes and hail Saturday as the region braces for more potential destructive storms. Multiple tornadoes have been reported in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi over the past couple of days, including an EF-1 tornado (86 to 110-mile per hour winds) near Fullerton,...
Actress Dayle Haddon died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning Friday at the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, home of her son-in-law, actor Marc Blucas. Solebury Township Police responded to a home on Phillips Mill Road just after 6:30 a.m. after it received a 911 call from a resident about a man passed out on the first floor...
Israel has detained the director of one of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals, Gaza’s Health ministry said Saturday after Israeli forces “forcibly” removed patients and staff, and fires burned across the hospital. “The occupation forces arrested Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital,” the ministry said in a statement. Fighting has raged in the...
HONOLULU — Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the last remaining survivor of the USS Utah, has died. He was 105. Upton died Wednesday at a hospital in Los Gatos, California, after suffering a bout of pneumonia, said Kathleen Farley, the California state chair of the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to the President of Azerbaijan for the crash of the civilian airliner that killed 38 people, the Kremlin said Saturday. “Vladimir Putin apologized for the fact that the tragic incident occurred in Russian airspace,” the Kremlin said. The airliner had “repeatedly attempted to land” at the Grozny airport, Putin told...
For better or worse, most of what you already know about health insurance isn’t changing next year. The good news is that you won’t need to relearn the basics if your plan is changing in 2025. The bad news is that the risk of unexpected bills remains, in part because the fine print for most...
A handful of downballot elections at the outset of the new year will serve as the first tests of the political environment following Donald Trump and the Republicans’ victories in November. In the opening months of 2025, there will be special legislative elections in Virginia, a race in battleground Wisconsin that will yet again determine...