A man who stole a plane and flew it over north Mississippi after threatening to crash it into a Walmart is facing charges of grand theft and making terroristic threats, authorities said Saturday. Tupelo Police Chief John Quaka said at a news conference that Cory Wayne Patterson stole a Beechcraft King Air C90A from the Tupelo Regional Airport, took off early Saturday, called 911 and then threatened to crash the aircraft....
Trevor Mallman 11:15 am ET Saturday: NASA officially called off the Artemis I launch attempt on Saturday. The launch team was unable to resolve a leak in an 8-inch hydrogen inlet leading to the Space Launch System rocket. Launch managers attempted three troubleshooting measures, and none were able to substantially reduce the leak of cryogenic hydrogen as it flowed from ground systems on the rocket. It is unclear whether NASA will attempt to launch the Artemis I mission on Monday or Tuesday, or whether it will need to return the massive rocket to the Vehicle Assembly Building for restoration work....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept 2 (Reuters) – Ground teams at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida began a final full day of launch preparations on Friday on the eve of a second attempt to send NASA’s giant, next-generation moon rocket on its debut test flight, five days after technical problems prevented an initial attempt. Mission managers were still on track for a Saturday afternoon liftoff of the 32-story-tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion space capsule to launch NASA’s moon-to-Mars Artemis program, the successor to the lunar probes....
Dans un post de la page Instagram “Fucknomtl” on peut voir l’erreur dans le nom de la municipalité, écrit “Wesmount”. Apparemment, cette erreur se serait glissée dans de nombreuses affiches électorales du candidat. Le PQ n’est pas le seul parti qui s’est démarqué ces derniers jours. À deux reprises, les enseignes bancales du Parti conservateur du Québec (PCQ) ont été évoquées. Dans la circonscription de René-Lévesque, sur la Côte-Nord, la candidate Marie-Renée Raymond a endossé des pancartes qui mal orthographiaient le nom de la circonscription....
Sarah Fillier had a goal and an assist for the Canadians, who will look to defend their world title and write another chapter in a historic showdown with the United States in Sunday’s gold medal game. Sarah Nurse, Christine O’Neill, Jessie Eldridge, Emily Clark and Brian Jenner also scored and defenseman Ella Shelton had two assists. Canadian goalkeeper Ann-Renée Desbiens stopped five shots for the win. Defender Lara Christen scored for a depleted Switzerland with Saskia Maurer turning away 48 shots in her first tournament start....
As signs mount that Priti Patel’s new immigration plan is faltering, details have emerged of the next batch of asylum seekers the Home Secretary wants to send on a deportation flight to Africa. Information shared by charities shows that six were trafficked or tortured, including one who was held and beaten in a warehouse in the Libyan desert for eight weeks. Not a single asylum seeker has been sent to Rwanda nearly five months after Patel’s policy was announced....
A crew from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue joked the incident was “rather ridiculous” after spending more than an hour trying to free the cow. The animal’s head became stuck in a tree on Chilbolton Common in Hampshire on Wednesday night. The fire service was called at approximately 7.40pm. and worked with an animal rescue consultant to cut down the tree and free the cow – but it took three hours....
About 90 percent of these workers are represented by the Hospital Workers Union. HEU business secretary-director Meena Brisard said the new three-year deal provides for inflation-sensitive pay rises along with a range of measures to tackle staff shortages and burnout. Read more: Pressure mounts on BC government as public sector strike continues “Protecting our members’ profits from rising costs was a key priority for our bargaining committee,” Brisard said in a statement....
The BC Teachers Federation (BCTF) said it is drawing attention to the fact that there will likely be a shortage of staff this school year. “[COVID-19] it has exacerbated many pre-existing conditions,” BCTF President Clint Johnston told CBC’s On the Coast. “The lack of teachers in BC it has been growing for some time and we are not producing enough teachers in the province for us.” He said inflation and the rising cost of living are contributing to the teacher shortage in B....
Russia’s Gazprom unveiled a major escalation in its energy war with Western Europe on Friday, announcing that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline will remain closed indefinitely, a move that threatens the prospect of blackouts and economic turmoil across the continent. The announcement was immediately condemned in capitals across the continent, but despite the anger, Gazprom’s decision will raise fears that Europe, which has long relied on Russian energy, faces a long, harsh winter with rationing and potentially crippling price increases....
Lundi à minuit, l’adolescent et un autre de 16 ans, toujours hospitalisé dimanche, ont été touchés au thorax par des balles de 9 mm, a expliqué après les faits le procureur de Besançon Etienne Mandeau. Le ou les tireurs se déplaçaient a priori “à pied”, a-t-il ajouté. Selon les premières investigations, “le conducteur supposé du passage à niveau serait en pratique le trafic de drogue”, a expliqué la source proche du dossier....
Myanmar’s military junta on Friday sentenced former British ambassador Vicky Bowman and her husband to a year in prison, a UK Foreign Office source with knowledge of the matter told CNN. The couple were arrested in Yangon last month after authorities charged them with violating immigration laws. Myanmar military authorities claimed that the address Bauman had listed on her visa did not match her residence. Violations of Myanmar’s immigration law carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison....
Just a week into the start of the school year in Mississippi’s capital, students faced a crisis that is canceling all classes and forcing them online, but this time it wasn’t Covid-19. Hundreds of students at Jackson State University, a historically black university, moved into their dorms on Aug. 18 as they settled in for the new year, but many have already returned home, while others are being forced to make difficult adjustments on campus because of the city’s ongoing water crisis....
In all, the inventory included 33 groups of items that FBI agents removed from Mar-a-Lago, including individual documents as well as containers filled with materials such as books, newspaper and magazine articles, or gifts and clothing. These seemingly more innocuous items were often mixed together in the same boxes or containers as government documents, both with and without classification markings. 1. Documents from the Office 1 document marked “confidential” 2 other government documents...
Am zweiten Tag der Airpower22 werden weitere Besucher erwartet. ©APA/PETER KOLB Der Zeitplan für den zweiten Tag der Airpower22 Airshow in Zeltweg ist nahezu identisch mit dem vom Freitag. Einer der Höhepunkte wird der Überflug zweier strategischer US-Bomber sein. Auch Bundespräsident Van der Bellen wird vorbeischauen. Die zweitägige Airpower22 Airshow von Bundesheer, Red Bull und dem Land Steiermark startete mit dem eigens designten „Vibes in the Sky“ und dem Start eines ungarischen Gripen-Jets sowie eines österreichischen Eurofighters in den zweiten Tag....
“Il faut courir dans tous les sens. Beaucoup nous appellent maîtresse, ou cantinière, ou encore femme de ménage. On ne sait pas, car on est partout !” Maria, Atsem en Seine-Saint-Denis chez franceinfo Tout cela pour 1 300 à 1 800 euros net selon les prestations précédentes. “Il y a de plus en plus d’Atsem qui veulent se recycler parce qu’ils en ont marre, ils sont épuisés”, ajoute-t-il. Revalorisation de l’indice des fonctionnaires : “C’est pas ça qui va changer ma vie”, témoigne une assistante maternelle Les 50 000 Atsem de France, à 99 % de femmes, se mettent en grève lundi 5 septembre suite à un appel des syndicats CGT, Force Ouvrière et Unsa....
Ce sont les gendarmes qui l’ont retrouvé sans vie, gisant sur le sable et la végétation dunaire. Selon les premiers éléments recueillis par les enquêteurs, la victime aurait passé la soirée sur place. Les militaires de l’identification criminelle ont été rapidement dépêchés sur les lieux afin de procéder aux premières constatations d’usage. Il semble que le jeune homme n’ait pas été victime d’une noyade. Mais les circonstances de son décès sont encore très floues....
