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Aircraft Laser Strikes Drop, Second Year In a Row
Pilots reported 10,994 laser strikes in 2025, a 14 percent decrease from the year before, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Shining a laser at an aircraft poses a serious safety ...
Alphabet’s Wing Starting Drone Delivery in San Francisco Bay Area
Alphabet-owned Wing plans to begin delivering packages by drone to homes in California's San Francisco Bay Area in the coming months, it said on Monday, extending its rollout to one of its earliest ...
Wild Weather Continues Across the U.S. This Weekend
Heat, fire, freezing conditions, and water will converge in the U.S. this weekend, according to the National Weather Service. A rare March heat wave continues with above-normal temperatures over much ...
Pennsylvania Regulators Seek $2.6M in Penalties for Deadly 2023 Chocolate Factory Explosion
Pennsylvania regulators asked an administrative law judge on Wednesday to make a gas utility pay $2.6 million in civil penalties for a chocolate factory explosion three years ago that killed seven ...
New FAA Protocol Addresses Helicopter, Plane Safety at Airports
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced a new measure to enhance safety in areas where helicopters often cross both arrival and departure paths near busy airports. Following the ...
U.S. Auto Safety Agency Deepens Probe into Tesla’s Self-Driving Technology
The U.S. auto safety regulator on Thursday deepened a probe into Tesla's driver-assistance system to evaluate its effectiveness in identifying degraded road conditions after nine crashes linked to ...
Questions Surround California DMV’s Lack of Reckless Driver Investigations
Placer County prosecutors wanted any information the California Department of Motor Vehicles had on Kostas Linardos, who drove a three-ton pickup truck at high speed into the back of a sedan in late ...
Vehicle Thefts in the U.S. Declined Nearly 25% Last Year: NICB
Prevention efforts are making a substantial dent in vehicle thefts across the nation, according to newly released data by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). The non-profit organization ...