…her down a little bit,” he told the station. “She said she was bipolar.” A cell phone video showing for the first time the flight attendant who caused panic aboard AA flight has emerged today Flight 2332 was halted after the woman commandeered the plane’s public address system and told passengers there were technical difficulties. First class travelers helped the cabin crew subdue the attendant,…
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lights of the Air & Water Show can be watch on ABC7 on Sunday. “Chicago’s Top Guns: A Wet and Wild Weekend” airs at 10:35 p.m. It’s hosted by Jerry Taft and Tracy Butler. 2011 Chicago Air and Water Show The Chicago Air and Water Show presented by the City of Chicago and Shell Oil Products U.S is the the largest FREE show of its kind in the United States. The show can…
…s, can also suffer eye-strain headaches. Treatment: “If you need to work looking at a screen, take short breaks every 20 minutes to allow the muscles in your eyes to relax,” says Dr. Clyde Alexander. 6. CRIPPLING HEADACHE Symptoms: Severe pain accompanied by sensitivity to light. Possible cause: Migraine affects around 15% of the population. “Some people have a predisposition to migraines, which…
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Amber Miller, a 39 weeks pregnant woman from Illinois who was expecting her second child any day, set off to run the Chicago Marathon. According to Chicago Tribune, as Amber Miller, 27, neared the final stages of the marathon, contractions kicked in. But the brave Amber Miller continued the race regardless, half running – half walking, and she managed to cross the finish line in 6 hours and…
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Ray Harris, a businessman from Marion, Indiana, and his two teenage daughters died in a plane crash yesterday afternoon after the parachute failed to slow the craft down. Ray Harris, 47, and his daughters, Ramie and Shey, perished, along with a man believed to be the co-pilot, after the single-engined Cirrus-SR2 plummeted into a farm field near the Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake. It shattered int…
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Alec Baldwin was thrown off an American Airlines flight for playing an iPhone game, according to some reports. Alec Baldwin, 53, was spotted sitting at LAX airport, in the midst of what appeared to be an intense telephone conversation, after his trip back to New York had been cut short. The 30 Rock star was then seen leaving an American Airline ticket counter after re-booking another flight home….
abuse when he was playing and after his retirement, he had affairs and felt into a depression that almost led him to suicide. The author said he worked on the book two and a half years and interviewed 678 people. Sweetness narrates Walter Payton‘s life, from his childhood in Mississippi, his college years at Jackson State, his NFL career (13 years) and his life after his career ended in 1987…
As speculation continues about the cause of Whitney Houston’s death, gossip website TMZ reported that some of her prescriptions were filled out at the infamous Mickey Fine pharmacy. Mickey Fine pharmacy was raided in 2009 by the DEA for evidence of “improper dispensing of controlled substances”, in connection with the death of Michael Jackson. These reports have yet to be confirmed. Michael…
the limited flight schedule. In addition to the cancellations in Germany and Europe, massive flight cancellations and delays are to be expected for long-haul flights beginning Sunday April, 21. Of the 50 planned flights in Frankfurt, only six will operate; in Munich, of the 17 planned flights, only three will operate; whereas, in Dusseldorf all three long-haul flights are scheduled to operate as p…
plete. Elsewhere in US, police reported 11 arrests overnight in the Occupy Cincinnati protests. According to police, those arrested had stayed in that city’s Fountain Square after Sunday’s 3:00 a.m. closing time and each was charged with criminal trespass. Police said they made approximately 100 arrests among Occupy Chicago protesters early Sunday Police began taking Occupy Chi…
…e pilot after he failed a blood-alcohol breath test before he was scheduled to fly from Minneapolis to New York City Thursday. Kolbjorn Jarle Kristiansen was running pre-flight checks at approximately 6:30 a.m. when police, acting on a tip, boarded the plane and made him take a breathalyzer. He was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol. “These incidents are very rare,” airp…
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Co-pilot Segei Golev, who was onboard the UTair Boeing 757 flying from Bangkok to Novosibirsk in western Siberia, died from a heart attack, transportation prosecutors said Friday. Sergei Golev, 44, suffered the attack in the cockpit and died despite all attempts at resuscitation – even a cardiologist, who was among passengers on the flight, failed to revive him. Fortunately the 239 passenge…
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Plane passengers could be obliged to follow a dress code after carriers received many calls from flyers’ rights groups to issue rules on what can and can’t be worn on board an aircraft. The proposal follows a series of high profile incidents including one Phoenix man boarding a plane in lingerie. In June this year, a 65-year-old Phoenix man, who works as a business consultant, sparked…
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ago to feature inflatable balloons every year. Started in the times of the Great Depression, the Parade has been lifting the spirits of Chicago and bringing the community together in celebration. Over 400,000 people lines the parade route on State Street. The 79th Anniversary of the McDonald’s Thanksgiving Parade will march down Chicago’s State Street on November 22nd, 2012 2012 McDonald’s…
…own for being anti-social and violent. He claimed that two weeks ago the man beat a dog severely after it relieved itself in his home. Christopher Valdez was dead when police arrived at the home about 2:10 p.m. yesterday. Christopher Valdez was a happy, appealing boy, who loved Spiderman, and carried a toy rabbit with him everywhere, his grandfather Tom Valdez told the Chicago Tribune. The boy’s m…
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llite in a 700km-high polar orbit There will inevitably be a degree of nervousness in launch control at Kourou come lift-off time. According to statistics compiled by the Ascend aerospace consultancy, 58% (11 out of 19) of new rockets since 1990 have experienced a major anomaly on their first flight. It is for this reason that the satellites carried on Vega’s maiden voyage have all been give…
27 protesters were arrested during three Occupy movement demonstrations on Tuesday in Chicago and Washington D.C. A total of 21 economic protesters were arrested for trespassing in Illinois on Tuesday as the Occupy Wall Street movement continued to spread across US major cities. Last night, five women aged between 55 and 80, from the Action Now group, were arrested in Chicago for taking rubbish f…
175 of Occupy Chicago protesters have been arrested last night in a downtown plaza where some had set up tents and sleeping bags in a protest inspired by the New York Occupy Wall Street movement. More than 2,000 people protested in a march from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to Grant Park, which had been the site of anti-war protests during the 1968 Democratic convention. According to the po…
An Alaska Airlines flight from Long Beach, California, to Vancouver, Canada, was forced to land in Portland, Oregon, when two children, aged three and eight, refused to stay in their seats. The children and their parents were kicked off the flight and met by police officers. After being spoken to by officials, the family was allowed to continue its journey on another plane. Alaska Airlines spokes…
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Passengers aboard a Finnair flight from Helsinki to New Delhi were pleasantly surprised when the aircraft’ staff treated them with a Bollywood-style dance to celebrate India’s 63rd Republic Day. A video showing the smiling Finnair staff treating passengers to the choreographed routine, has become a hit on YouTube, receiving more than half-a-million hits in just one day. Helena Kaartin…
…ncerns. The couple told the Daily Telegraph that staff issued a “blasé” apology and did not explain exactly what the error was until hours later, when they were landing at Heathrow Duncan Farquharson, 58, an engineer, said: “We were about three hours into the flight when an automated message came over the tannoy saying: <<This is an emergency, we will shortly be making an emergency landing o…
…as comfortable as possible. It wasn’t Chloe Boyce’s first unaccompanied flight, yet despite the company’s apologies, her mother says it may be her last. ”I’m going to be driving the 17 hours to New York to get her,” she told MSNBC. Southwest’s rules on unaccompanied minors: “Unaccompanied Minors are allowed to travel on only nonstop or same-plane service (makes one or two stops…
…ice today as violence broke out in pockets around the city. Police in riot gear surrounded the downtown areas of Grant Park and the Loop and also patrolled train stations. Protesters began arriving at 6.30 a.m. at the park and set up under the trees to shade themselves from the sun. Following the rally in the park, protesters planned to march to the convention center at McCormick Place. Around the…
…ho, corporate welfare’s got to go”, the Los Angeles Times reported. “In the end, what we want to do is inspire working-class people to get involved in the political process,” Adam Liszkiewics, a 32-year-old USC graduate student, told the Los Angeles Times. Boston The Occupy Boston movement appears the most well-developed of the off-shoot protests, with a sizeable camp, featuring tents, medic…
Symphony No. 2 at the normally staid Chicago Symphony Orchestra when the two patrons went at it. The Chicago Sun-Times reported Saturday that the fight began when a man in his 30’s started punching a 67-year-old man in one of the boxes “’We heard a rather loud thump,” said Steve Robinson, general manager of Chicago’s classical and folk music station 98.7 WFMT, who was at the performan…
