A Virgin Atlantic passenger plane bound for Las Vegas safely carried out a “non-standard” landing at London’s Gatwick airport on Monday after a landing gear problem, with television pictures showing the plane intact and stationary on the runway.
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President Barack Obama imposed the most sweeping immigration reform in a generation on Thursday, easing the threat of deportation for about 4.7 million undocumented immigrants and setting up a clash with Republicans.
Washoe County health officials have conducted their first Ebola screening of a person who was on a flight with a patient who had the virus but released the individual after determining there was no health risk.
Two teenage brothers from Utah were killed when a small plane crashed Sunday in northwest Arizona, authorities said. The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office identified the victims of the crash as the pilot, Daulton Rey Whatcott, 19, and Jason McKee Whatcott, 16, of Clinton City.
A hollering, agitated passenger who ignored pleas to calm down spurred a pilot to divert a New York-to-Las Vegas JetBlue plane to Detroit over the weekend, according to the airline and a passenger’s video.
After his 10th deployment, which caused severe injury, Army Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg was applauded at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address and received a hero’s award Thursday at the Bellagio for his “selfless and courageous action.”
The woman accused of throwing a shoe at Hillary Clinton during an April 10 speaking engagement in Las Vegas pleaded not guilty late Wednesday to misdemeanor charges and was ordered to remain in federal custody.
A mother has blamed authorities for failing to do enough to track two sex offenders who are charged in the death of her daughter. The two men wore GPS devices, but investigators say they didn’t piece together a pattern of rapes and killings until at least four women were dead.
Sky-gazers in North and South America were treated to a full lunar eclipse — at least those fortunate enough to have clear skies.
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