Category Archives: WPTF News
In an engineering feat, mechanical SpaceX arms catch Starship rocket booster back at the launch pad
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace WriterSpaceX pulled off the boldest test flight yet of its enormous Starship rocket on Sunday, catching the returning booster back at the launch pad with mechanic...
Oct 13, 2024
Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside
By JULIA FRANKEL Associated PressJERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hama...
Oct 13, 2024
Fisher-Price recalls over 2 million ‘Snuga Swings’ following the deaths of 5 infants
NEW YORK (AP) - Fisher-Price is recalling parts of over 2 million infant swings across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. That’s because of a serious suffocation risk following reports of five infant ...
Oct 13, 2024
Volunteers bring solar power to Hurricane Helene’s disaster zone
By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated PressBAKERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Helene downed power lines and washed out roads all over North Carolina’s mountains, the consta...
Oct 13, 2024
Legislative majorities giving one party all the power are in play in several states
By JOHN HANNA and DAVID A. LIEB Associated PressSHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) - After introducing herself at their front doors, Vanessa Vaughn West began her pitch to voters with a question: What issues are impo...
Oct 13, 2024
Determination to rebuild follows Florida’s hurricanes with acceptance that storms will come again
By RUSS BYNUM, BRENDAN FARRINGTON and TY O’NEIL Associated PressVENICE, Fla. (AP) - No sooner had residents of the Bahia Vista Gulf condominium complex dug out and from Hurricane Helene than the...
Oct 13, 2024
Mud, beer and cash: Annual wife-carrying championship attracts competitive couples to Maine
NEWRY, Maine (AP) - An annual event in Maine involving mud, beer and cash has once again drawn dozens of eager competitors. More than 30 couples participated Saturday in the North American Wife Carryi...
Oct 13, 2024
Floridians cleaning up from Hurricane Milton are hampered by a widespread fuel shortage
By RUSS BYNUM, BRENDAN FARRINGTON and TY ONEIL Associated PressCORTEZ, Fla. (AP) - Floridians recovering from Hurricane Milton, many of whom were journeying home after fleeing hundreds of miles t...
Oct 13, 2024
North Carolina football player Tylee Craft dies from rare lung cancer at 23
By DOUG BONJOUR Associated PressCHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina football player Tylee Craft died Saturday morning from a rare form of lung cancer, coach Mack Brown said.Brown made the announce...
Oct 13, 2024
Jamal Haynes scampers 68 yards in final minute, lifting Georgia Tech over North Carolina 41-34
By DOUG BONJOUR Associated PressCHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Jamal Haynes ran for 170 yards and two touchdowns, including a go-ahead 68-yard touchdown in the final minute, as Georgia Tech stunned North Ca...
Oct 12, 2024