Theresa Braine

2 days ago | dailyitem.com | Theresa Braine

A Colorado community was reeling and seeking answers Tuesday after a 13-year-old girl fell through an attic floor at her afterschool program and plummeted 25 feet to her death. Authorities in Pueblo confirmed that Joeylin Kenley McDonald died Friday at about 7 p.m. during a Head Start program Youth Kickback event at the Rocky Mountain Service, Employment, and Redevelopment Empowerment Center, KRDO-TV and other outlets reported.

2 days ago | aviationpros.com | Theresa Braine

Nearly 300 passengers and crew had to evacuate a Delta flight Monday morning after fire erupted in an engine just before takeoff from Orlando International Airport. The 282 passengers, 10 flight attendants and two pilots evacuated via slides onto the tarmac, and no injuries were reported, Delta told the Daily News in an emailed statement. Flight 1213 was preparing to depart for Atlanta when flames started shooting out of a tailpipe, WFTV-TV reported.

2 days ago | nydailynews.com | Theresa Braine

Nearly 300 passengers and crew had to evacuate a Delta flight Monday morning after fire erupted in an engine just before takeoff from Orlando International Airport. The 282 passengers, 10 flight attendants and two pilots evacuated via slides onto the tarmac, and no injuries were reported, Delta told the Daily News in an emailed statement. Flight 1213 was preparing to depart for Atlanta when flames started shooting out of a tailpipe, WFTV-TV reported.

3 days ago | nydailynews.com | Theresa Braine

Police on Monday identified a woman from New Britain, Conn., as the fourth victim in the weekend’s fatal three-car crash in Newington. Maritza Smith, 56, was the fourth person killed in the accident, police revealed Monday. The other three victims — Gabriela Difo, 17; her mother, Florinda Tineo, 50, and her aunt, Jeannette Tineo, 48 — were previously identified by Democratic State Rep. Gary Turco, CT Insider reported. Part of his district lies in Newington.

3 days ago | nydailynews.com | Theresa Braine

Autism is a bigger scourge than Covid-19 was because the latter “killed old people,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a radio interview that aired Sunday. Days after angering autism advocates by claiming at a press conference those with autism were incapable of holding jobs, dating, paying taxes, or being fully toilet trained, RFK Jr. again sounded off on autism in an interview on “The Cats Roundtable” with radio host John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM.