Kara Willis

1 month ago | cw39.com | Seth Kovar |Kara Willis |Jonathan Novack

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators looking into the cause of the January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people recommended a ban on some helicopter flights Tuesday, saying the current setup “poses an intolerable risk.” National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy laid out frightening statistics to underscore the danger that has existed for years near Ronald Reagan National Airport and expressed anger that...

1 month ago | cw39.com | Sharon Udasin |Seth Kovar |Kara Willis |Jonathan Novack

(The Hill) — The microscopic shards of plastic found in every corner of the planet may be exacerbating antibiotic resistance, a new study has found. Bacteria exposed to these ubiquitous fragments, known as “microplastics,” became resistant to multiple types of antibiotics commonly used to treat infections, researchers showed in the study, published on Tuesday in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

1 month ago | cw39.com | Addy Bink |Seth Kovar |Kara Willis |Jonathan Novack

(NEXSTAR) — The MLB regular season will start soon, which means a slew of new merchandise and hats are being released. That includes a line of New Era caps, which, for a couple of teams, have already been removed from their fan shops amid some potentially vulgar appearances. The hats, part of New Era’s Overlap 5950 collection, superimposed the logo of each team over the team’s name.

1 month ago | cw39.com | Addy Bink |Seth Kovar |Kara Willis |Jonathan Novack

(NEXSTAR) — It may be hard to think about sweltering temperatures in early March but the National Weather Service is already rolling out changes to the weather alerts used to alert us to the dangers of impending heat. You may be familiar with “Excessive Heat Watches” and “Excessive Heat Warnings,” issued when potentially dangerous heat conditions are in the forecast. Starting this month, those alerts will be no more — sort of.

1 month ago | cw39.com | Daylyn Huff |Seth Kovar |Kara Willis |Jonathan Novack

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy from Royal Oak, Michigan, who was killed in a hyperbaric chamber explosion, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday. The boy, Thomas Cooper, was “incinerated” inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at Oxford Center, a medical facility in a Detroit suburb, on Jan. 31. His mother was standing next to the chamber and was injured trying to save her boy.