WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A middle school student has confessed to throwing an object at President Donald Trump’s motorcade in Florida, authorities said. The object was thrown at the motorcade in West Palm Beach on Friday afternoon. The juvenile confessed ” to throwing a 2X4″ and implicated four other students, according to the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office. Charges will be filed with Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office, the sheriff’s office said. The incident happened near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort […] SpaceX launches and lands another rocket TITUSVILLE, Fl. — SpaceX is back in action and has successfully completed a historic launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After a delay 24 hours earlier over concerns about the rocket, the launch on Sunday appeared to go flawlessly. It was the first SpaceX launch from Florida since a Falcon 9 exploded on a launch pad on September 1, 2016. Sunday’s launch was also the first from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39 since the NASA Space Shuttles was […]
President Trump invites supporter onstage to speak at Florida rally MELBOURNE, Florida — President Donald Trump, after a month of arduous and, at times, turbulent governing, got what he came for Saturday during a dusk rally here: Campaign-level adulation. Trump, who just months ago finished campaigning for the office he now holds, was both selling what his administration has done in its first 30 days and trying to change the subject after a chaotic month. The President was forced to fire his national security adviser, struggled to roll out his […] Elderly woman found ‘molded’ to chair; rescuers forced to wear hazmat suits TOLEDO, Ohio — Residents in a Springfield Township neighborhood had no idea one of their neighbors was living in squalor until emergency vehicles lit up their typically quiet street, the Toledo Blade reported. The smell of human excrement reached the sidewalk as emergency responders worked to remove a 550-pound elderly woman from her living room chair Thursday evening.
Barbara Foster, 75, had been sitting in the same place since July 2016 — long enough for her body to weaken and […] Radio hosts killed during Facebook Live broadcast As followers of Luis Manuel Medina’s Facebook Live video watched another of his radio monologues on Tuesday, two loud bangs rang out. Viewers heard a woman yell. They then watched Medina look up from his microphone, his eyes tracking something off-camera. The video abruptly ends. Medina, along with his radio co-worker Leonidas Martinez, were shot and killed Tuesday while hosting their radio program in San Pedro de Macoris in the Dominican Republic, attorney general Jean Rodriguez said in a statement. Omar Abdel-Rahman, 1993 World Trade Center bombing plotter, dies in NC prison BUTNER, N.C. — Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian-born cleric serving a life sentence for plotting the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center and other terror attacks in New York, has died, a prison spokesman said Saturday. Abdel-Rahman died Saturday morning from natural causes at age 78, said Greg Norton, spokesman with the federal correctional complex in Butner, North Carolina.
He had battled diabetes and coronary heart disease, Norton said. The February 1993 attack on the Manhattan landmark left six people […] Norma McCorvey, known as ‘Jane Roe’ in Roe v. Wade, dies KATY, Texas — Norma McCorvey, known as “Jane Roe,” the anonymous plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court case that established a constitutional right to abortion, has died, a priest close to her family said Saturday. She later became an anti-abortion activist. McCorvey died in the Houston area with her daughter Melissa and several grandchildren present, said the Rev. Frank Pavone, an anti-abortion activist. Pavone did not give the cause of death but said McCorvey had been a […] Secret Service investigating object thrown at President Trump’s motorcade WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Secret Service is investigating an incident in which an object was thrown at President Donald Trump’s motorcade here Friday afternoon. The incident happened near his Mar-a-Lago resort as the motorcade traveled from the airport.
It was not clear if any of the vehicles were struck and what was thrown. No one was hurt. A large number of police officers and Secret Service agents gathered at an intersection along Southern Boulevard. A group of protesters […] Pentagon officials: Russian actions a ‘test of the new administration’ WASHINGTON — Some Pentagon officials believe Russia is testing President Donald Trump with aggressive moves across the globe. Moscow recently deployed a banned land-based cruise missile, dispatched a spy ship up the Atlantic coast and buzzed an American warship in the Black Sea. “They were likely intended to test the new administration,” one defense official told CNN. “The Russians are doing different things to see how the new administration will respond,” a second defense official added. The developments raise the […] Driver caught using mannequin in HOV lane TACOMA, Wash. — After pulling over a driver for speeding in an HOV lane near Tacoma, Washington, a state trooper noticed something a little off about the woman in the passenger seat — she wasn’t real.