A few years back, Sage Brook Carbone was attending a powwow at the Mashantucket Western Pequot reservation in Connecticut when she noticed signs in the Pequot language. Carbone, a citizen of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island, thought back to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she has lived for much …
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Google Maps has long been a gold standard in everyday navigation, whether it is hopping on public transportation or jumping in your car for a journey across town. In addition to giving you insight into how crowded the bus or final destination is, Google has increased user data control with …
Read More »Colorado driver walks away from dangerous 300-foot highway crash with minor injuries: 'A miracle'
A driver miraculously survived a 300-foot plunge over the side of a highway in Colorado last week, walking away with only minor injuries, officials said. The wreck happened along U.S. Highway 550 in Ouray on Oct. 9, the Ouray Mountain Rescue Team, Inc. said in a statement on Facebook. Rescuers …
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A man has been charged with multiple counts of vehicular homicide after authorities said he drove his semitruck too close behind a van, triggering a fiery, multi-vehicle crash on a Georgia highway that killed eight people from the same family, including five children. Kane Aaron Hammock, 33, faces eight counts …
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President Donald Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy issued a bombshell report Thursday night accusing California of violating federal law by issuing a commercial driver’s license to a foreign asylum seeker whose semi-truck crash killed three people earlier this week. The report alleges that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration ignored a …
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A scathing new report into the Titan submersible disaster that killed five people has found the vessel was damaged during earlier dives and built through a flawed engineering process that failed to meet safety standards — conditions that ultimately led to its fatal implosion. The report released by the National …
Read More »California woman hit by small plane during crash landing on soccer field
A California woman was struck by a small airplane that crashed in a Long Beach park during an attempted emergency landing on Tuesday, according to officials. The emergency landing attempt took place around 4 p.m. on a soccer field at Heartwell Park, the Long Beach Fire Department said on Facebook. …
Read More »Dashcam video shows deadly freeway crash involving suspected illegal immigrant trucker
Dashcam video from a deadly California freeway crash involving a suspected illegal immigrant truck driver in a tractor-trailer shows the vehicle plowing through bumper-to-bumper traffic in a wreck that killed three. Jashanpreet Singh, 21, received a California commercial driver’s license in June, according to the federal Department of Transportation. The …
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