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A "critical" patient and his mother were successfully airlifted from a Carnival cruise ship hundreds of miles from shore by U.S. Air Force combat rescue teams on Saturday, May 4. Knewz.com has learned the 920th Rescue Wing, based at Patrick Space Force Base in Florida, is the Air Force Reserve Command’s only combat search and rescue wing, and typically conducts military rescue operations. But the unit mobilized within hours of the distress call from the Carnival Venezia, which was around 400 miles offshore on its way back to New York from the Caribbean. The 920th Rescue Wing deployed two HH-60...
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First responders in Florida wrangled a wayward alligator in a Starbucks drive-thru, and released it into a nearby pond. Knewz.com has learned that North Port Fire Rescue shared photos on social media, and described the incident as "just another day on the job!" "Our team at North Port Fire Rescue had quite the surprise when we got a call about an alligator sighting at the Starbucks drive-thru," the fire department said. The fire department coordinated with North Port Police to capture the gator. Photos show a pair of police officers using a snare to capture the relatively small alligator, whic...
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Two young children died Tuesday, May 7 after being swept away by a river while playing with their mother in a California picnic area, authorities said. According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, a mother took her children, ages 2 and 4, to the Thurman Flats Picnic area near Mill Creek to play at around 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Knewz.com has learned. They were playing near the creek "with rapid water moving downstream." At around 3 p.m., the mother was tending to her son, 2, when her daughter, 4, was swept downstream. The mother searched for the girl cut could not find her, and w...
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An 85-year-old Colorado woman who went missing last week was found by a K-9 police dog after she got stuck along the side of a "steep ravine," officials said. The City of Greenwood Village shared body-worn camera video that showed Greenwood Village Police Department Officer Austin Speer and K-9 Mercury working to track the unnamed woman, who had been missing for around two hours on Thursday, May 2, Knewz.com has learned. Within minutes of beginning the search, Mercury located the woman "clinging to a tree down a steep ravine where she could not be seen from the roadway or canal," the city wrot...
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The captain of a dive boat that caught fire and sank off the coast of California in 2019, killing 34 people on board, was sentenced on Thursday, May 2 to four years in prison, officials said. Jerry Nehl Boylan, 70, was found guilty in November of 2023 of one count of misconduct or neglect of ship officer – an offense also known as “seaman’s manslaughter.” Boylan was the captain of the Conception, a 75-foot passenger boat operating out of Santa Barbara Harbor. The boat embarked on a dive trip during Labor Day weekend in 2019 with 33 passengers and six crew members, including Boylan. On Sept. 2,...
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A city councilman in Mississippi has pleaded guilty to a drug conspiracy charge for using his chain of vape stores to sell products labeled as containing CBD, a non-psychoactive component of marijuana, though they in fact contained illegal synthetic cannabinoids, authorities said. Knewz.com has learned that Robert Leon Deming III, 47, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Mississippi. As part of the plea agreement, Deming, a former Biloxi city councilman, agreed t...
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Florida wildlife officials are investigating after a group of revelers was captured in a viral video dumping a load of trash off their boat after leaving the Boca Bash, an annual boat party. Wavy Boats, a YouTube channel dedicated to filming boats navigating the waters of South Florida's choppiest inlets, shared a video Monday, April 29, that showed a group of partiers leaving Boca Raton Inlet on Sunday, April 28 and promptly dumping two bins of trash into the water while cheering and smiling for the drone's camera. The boaters had just left the Boca Bash, an annual boating party that takes pl...
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A gold pocket watch that was recovered from the body of John Jacob Astor IV following the sinking of the Titanic is set to go up for auction. The auction for the wealthiest Titanic passenger's 14-carat gold Waltham pocket watch begins Saturday, April 27 with the starting bid set at 60,000 pounds ($74,979), according to auction house Henry Aldridge and Son. "Astor is well known as the richest passenger aboard the R.M.S. Titanic and was thought to be among the richest people in the world at that time, with a net worth of roughly $87 million (equivalent to several billion dollars today)," the auc...
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Scientists have been able to establish a possible link between the mysterious and elusive early human group known as the Denisovans and the Homo longi, or “Dragon man” species from China. Knewz.com has learned that the lifestyle of the Denisovan humans, along with the knowledge of what they looked like, is still a mystery for researchers. As of now, evidence of their physical characteristics includes a jaw fragment, a few bits of bone, and a couple of teeth samples. However, researchers working on the mysterious group of humans currently believe they have established a link between the Deniso...
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Could the impact of climate change go beyond warmer days - to shorter days? Knewz.com has learned about a new theory about the heating of Earth. It could be making the world turn a bit faster. Scientists say the pace is increasing so much that a “leap second” will be needed by the end of the decade. Leap seconds have occurred before, when an extra tick was put on world clocks. But this time, a second will need to be removed. A study explaining the need for a “negative leap second” was published in Nature magazine Wednesday, March 27. “Global warming is already affecting global timekeeping,” Du...
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