Month: September 2022

MOSES LAKE, Wash. (AP) — A prototype, all-electric airplane took its first flight Tuesday morning in central Washington state. The Seattle Times reports that if the Federal Aviation Administration eventually certifies the small airplane to carry passengers, it could become the first all-electric commercial airplane. The plane, built by startup Eviation, was built to carry

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans social services nonprofit long known as the Kingsley House has ditched the name of a Victorian clergyman found to have held profoundly racist views. It was named in 1896 for both social reformer Charles Kingsley and the founder’s son Kingsley Warner, who died

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BOURJ HAMMOUD, Lebanon (AP) — A Palestinian from Beirut who survived one of the deadliest migrant boat sinkings in recent years has shared a harrowing tale. He said in an interview Tuesday that he is still traumatized after seeing the body of an infant in the water and hearing the

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A woman who was seriously injured when the parked police patrol vehicle she was detained in was struck by a train in northern Colorado is out of the hospital. KUSA-TV reports Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, of Greeley, has several broken bones and head and back injuries. Authorities responded to a report of a