Deputy working security at South Carolina gun show fatally shoots customer who shot him

SpaceX’s Starship returns from orbit and is captured by launch pad arms in a dramatic first

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s Starship made a triumphant return to Earth on Saturday, caught in midair by giant mechanical arms where its journey began 22 hours earlier. It was the grand finale that Elon Musk and his team hoped for — the first-ever capture of a Starship flying back from space. But with […]

Albany football deals UMaine its ninth consecutive loss

The University of Maine football team’s nightmarish season continued on Saturday afternoon. The University of Albany’s Great Danes scored on their first three possessions and coasted to an easy 37-3 win over the punchless Black Bears at Bob Ford Field in Tom and Mary Casey Stadium in Albany. The Great Danes, 7-4 overall and 5-2 […]

US air travel schedule should recover by the end of Sunday, FAA says

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said a contractor was replacing wire with new fiber wire, and it somehow caused a system overload.

New Orleans port sues to get control of tanker that crashed into cruise ship on Mississippi River

Just hours after a tanker in New Orleans lost its steering and slammed into a docked river cruise boat, the city’s port sued to make sure federal investigators can seize the vessel that is owned by a subsidiary of a Chinese company. All 197 passengers and crew on the American Heritage cruise ship survived Friday […]

Why a problem on the ground can affect flights thousands of miles away among other issues

Regional U.S. air traffic control centers communicate using a complex network that’s “one of the largest telecommunications systems in the country,” and disruptions like those seen on Friday with an hourslong, nationwide grounding of flights can reverberate widely, according to an aviation expert. Michael McCormick, a former airspace manager with the Federal Aviation Administration, said […]