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Passenger laptop fire forces plane evacuation at JFK Airport

Emergency responders evacuated a JetBlue flight at JFK International Airport in New York City as a result of a small fire in a passenger’s laptop on Saturday evening

The Independent UK

Crew forced to restrain passenger who ‘tried to storm cockpit’

Airline alerted New York airport to a ‘serious security incident’

The Independent UK

Snake on a plane: Passengers shriek as snake reptile slithers through business class cabin

It turned out to be a harmless garter snake, according to animal control

The Independent UK

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Airport staff remove snake on plane after panicked passengers 'shriek' in fear

Panicked passengers pulled their feet onto their seats and yelled out in horror when a snake began slithering through a commercial flight, with the reptile now released into the wild

Daily Mirror

Former NBA star arrested for punching son, 10, ‘multiple times’ over dropped book in New York airport

British-born Ben Gordon was prevented by police from a boarding plane at LaGuardia Airport

The Independent UK

British former NBA star Ben Gordon arrested after 'hitting 10-year-old son at airport'

British born basketball star Ben Gordon played for the Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, Charlotte Bobcats and Orlando Magic in a distinguished 11 year NBA career

Daily Mirror

Volunteers extend a hand to migrants from Texas: ‘We welcome them’

Mass bussing has been called a political stunt, but New York non-profit groups have mobilized to offer a sense of humanity

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NYPD top cop Keechant Sewell patted down at Kennedy Airport — but trip led to feud between detective, security detail

NEW YORK — Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell was fine with a careful screening by TSA agents before she boarded a flight out of town late in August — but her trip to Kennedy Airport got on the nerves of the cops who accompanied her, police sources told the Daily News.

Tribune News Service

Baseball pitcher who gave up career to become NYC police officer killed en route to 9/11 memorial

Varvaro dies in head-on collision with wrong-way driver

The Independent UK

Former MLB pitcher turned cop Varvaro dies in car crash

Anthony Varvaro, a former Major League Baseball pitcher who retired in 2016 to become a police officer in the New York City area, was killed in a car accident on his way to work at the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in Manhattan

The Independent UK

Ship carrying 400 tonnes of oil CRASHES off Gibraltar coast and starts to sink

An container ship carrying more than 400 tonnes of oil has crashed into another vessel leaving the Port of Gibraltar and is sinking with the fear that it will spill its load causing an environmental disaster

Daily Mirror

Woman says American Airlines barred her from flight as they ‘didn’t like her tone of voice’

‘Tone policing is discriminatory. Calling the police on someone who asks to speak to management is problematic,’ says New York educator

The Independent UK

Goodbye to cash tolls, and some notorious history, at bridge

Drivers looking to cross from New Jersey into New York over the George Washington Bridge will now go through an electronic tolling system

The Independent UK

Settlement ends police stings in NYC bus terminal bathrooms

The police agency that patrols New York City’s main bus terminal has agreed to stop sending plainclothes officers into its public bathrooms to try and catch people propositioning strangers for sex

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NYC Mayor Adams pushes for gun ‘scanners’ at Port Authority after latest subway shooting

Mayor Eric Adams is in talks with state officials about installing weapon “scanners” at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in the wake of this weekend’s horrific subway shooting.

The Guardian - US

$28 for a beer? New York airports crack down on ‘exorbitant’ food and drink

City acts after egregious price-gouging emerged – such as $27.85 for a glass of Sam Adams beer at LaGuardia

Newcastle Herald

Meet the candidates for four Hunter seats

The region's 32 candidates tell us about their background.

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New Yorkers must mask up for mass transit despite end of national COVID travel mandate

NEW YORK — New York officials are taking matters into their own hands to keep masks mandated on public transit in the city after a Florida judge struck down a federal face-covering requirement as unconstitutional this week.

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Lyft, Uber Face Flak For Initiating Surge After Dreadful Subway Attack; Look To Refund Riders

Lyft Inc (NASDAQ:LYFT) suspended its surge pricing citywide on April 12 after the horrific subway attack that injured at least 29 people, the New York Post reports. Larger rival Uber Technologies Inc (NYSE:UBER) restricted its suspension of demand-based rates to Brooklyn, where the shooting occurred. The shooting, around 8:30 a.m, had snapped train service…

Insider UK

Port authority signs £49 million contract for Stornoway's new deep water terminal

Work at the Outer Hebrides’ main port is expected to start in the coming weeks and should be completed before the end of next year

Asharq Al-Awsat

Egypt Navy Rescues Crewmembers of Sinking Lebanese Ship

The Egyptian Navy rescued last week ten crewmembers of a Lebanese cargo ship that sank off the coast of Alexandria in the Mediterranean Sea, an Egyptian military statement said. Spokesperson of the armed forces Colonel Gharib Abdelhafez said on his official page that as part of the continued efforts to…

Tribune News Service

Pa. couple hurt in bridge collapse to sue Pittsburgh, PennDOT

PITTSBURGH — A Penn Hills couple hurt in the Fern Hollow Bridge collapse said this week they intend to sue PennDOT, the city of Pittsburgh and the Port Authority of Allegheny County for their injuries.

Tribune News Service

Crews at Pittsburgh bridge collapse site hoist Port Authority bus, other vehicles from wreckage

PITTSBURGH — Crews on Monday evening used a massive crane to hoist the trapped Port Authority bus out of the wreckage from Friday’s Forbes Avenue bridge collapse, capping the daylight hours that saw other vehicles also lifted out of the rubble, Frick Park reopen to the public and a viewing…

Tribune News Service

'Monster sound': 10 injured when bridge collapses in Pittsburgh's Frick Park

PITTSBURGH — Hours before President Joe Biden was to visit Pittsburgh on Friday to tout his infrastructure plan, a bridge with a troubled inspection history collapsed, injuring 10 people and stranding seven vehicles, including a Port Authority bus, on the wrecked structure that spans a ravine in Frick Park.

Tribune News Service

'Monster sound': 10 hurt after bridge in Pittsburgh collapses on day Biden visits to tout infrastructure plan

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