A scathing report from the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) revealed that the school system spent a staggering $14.5 million in “excessive” travel expenses in FY 2023 and FY 2024 combined. The report comes as data …
A nationwide air traffic controller shortage has put new attention on a growing training option the FAA now approves for certain colleges. The recent federal government shutdown highlighted how thin staffing has become, especially as delays and reroutes stacked up …
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday announced a $1 billion nationwide upgrade to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) equipment and awarded $10,000 bonus payments to select employees. Speaking at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport in Minnesota, Noem praised …
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy identified the woman set on fire aboard a Chicago train as 26-year-old Bethany MaGee, who suffered severe burns in the attack. Duffy blasted the city’s lax crime policies, saying the attack, allegedly carried out by a …
Students from the Northeast are heading South in record numbers, drawn by universities where sunshine, football and Greek life define campus life. Rather than chasing the Ivy League dream, many students are now opting for schools in the Southeastern Conference …
Authorities have launched a manhunt for Morgan Geyser, the Wisconsin woman convicted in the 2014 “Slender Man” stabbing, after she cut off her Department of Corrections monitoring bracelet and fled a Madison group home Saturday night, police said. The Madison …
Fifty years after the daughter of a wealthy Connecticut family was found murdered in the yard of their quaint suburban home, questions remain surrounding the involvement of a Kennedy relative who was convicted of her killing – but ultimately walked …
A former TV anchor-turned entrepreneur convicted of stealing millions of dollars in a COVID-era fraud scheme will spend the next decade behind bars at the same Texas prison camp as infamous sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Earlier this year, a federal …
Veteran actor Gerald McRaney stepped into the part of the formidable father at the heart of Hulu’s limited series “Murdaugh: Death in the Family,” a role he said required him to inhabit a family’s patriarch amid scandal. McRaney, 78, spoke …
A former substitute teacher in Missouri was sentenced to ten years in prison on Wednesday after she was accused of giving students money, alcohol and drugs in exchange for sex. Carissa Jane Smith, 31, of Dixon, was arrested last November …