Amanda Holpuch

The plane, a Cessna C550, crashed while landing at Statesville Regional Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Heavy rains have prompted public health officials in Washington to warn residents about toilet rats, a rare plumbing nightmare that drives frantic calls to pest control experts.

The Oklahoma man had bought himself a Glock .45 handgun for Christmas and was shooting at an energy drink can when a woman nearby was fatally struck, officials said.

An Oklahoma man was doing target practice on Thursday, Christmas Day, with a handgun he had bought himself when he fatally shot a woman who was sitting with two children on a neighboring front porch, the authorities said.

There were few tears at a funeral for the MetroCard, which included chants of “swipe, swipe” and an urn.

NASA said it canceled a spacewalk planned for Thursday after an astronaut had an undisclosed medical issue on the International Space Station.

After canceling a spacewalk planned for Thursday, the space agency’s administrator said it was erring on the side of caution and bringing a crew of four home in the coming days.

The App Drivers Union said it was the first organization in the country to be formally certified to represent drivers for apps such as Uber and Lyft.

By Drivers for apps such as Uber and Lyft have unionized in Massachusetts and will be represented by an organization that on Monday said it

Administration officials have suggested suspending a legal principle that protects against unlawful detention, and struggled to accurately define it.