US Watchdog Probing FAA's Management of Reagan Airport Airspace
The Transportation Department's Office of Inspector General's Friday announcement comes a week after an investigative hearing on the midair collision between a US Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines Group Inc. regional jet that killed 67 people.
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Haverford Township Commissioners in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, are one step closer to stricter enforcement of electric scooters and bikes. On Monday night, the board voted to move forward with an ordinance to prohibit people under the age of 16 from riding them. If the ordinance soon passes and becomes law, it would be enforced in January 2026 with a $25 fine for noncompliance. Commissioners believe this local ordinance is a meaningful and practical step to enhance safety for the young residents. They said they are working toward a broader, widespread compliance statewide. The ordinance comes weeks after 12-year-old Abby Gillion died in an electric scooter accident in Aston. Police said she was riding with a friend when they fell off and were hit by a car. Gillion's friend survived. Last week, CBS News Philadelphia spoke exclusively with Gillon's family, who opened up about their heartache and the action they are taking so no family has to experience their pain. "It's one of the worst phone calls a parent can get," Lori Kralle, Abby's mother, told CBS News Philadelphia. Gillon's death shook the entire community. "We feel broken," Kralle said. "She was my best friend. My only daughter. My only child." The family is pushing for a new law called "Abby's Law," which would cap e-scooters speeds at 20 mph, ban riders under 16 years old, and require helmets for riders who are 16 and 17 years old.
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North Texas mom convicted in fentanyl poisoning death of 8-month-old daughter testifies during punishment phase of trial
A 24-year-old woman is on trial in the first known case of a baby dying from fentanyl poisoning in Collin County. Mary Locke took the stand during the punishment phase of her jury trial. The jury convicted Locke on Friday of first-degree injury to a child for the fentanyl poisoning death of her 8-month-old daughter, Elizabeth, and will soon decide whether she should go to prison. "She's scared because she doesn't know how the jury is going to perceive her," said Locke's defense attorney, Ryan Kreck. Locke told jurors that she was panhandling at retail stores to support a drug addiction along with the child's father, who lived in an Allen apartment. A police report said that on the evening Elizabeth died, "...they smoked 30 mg tablets of OXY with the goal of becoming intoxicated." Locke admitted on the witness stand that a bottle given to her child could have been contaminated with fentanyl. "I watched her drink it for a couple of minutes. I went to wake her up, and that's when I realized something was wrong," Locke testified. The couple found her the next day in a pool of blood and drove to a nearby hospital, where the police report said, "Upon arrival at the hospital, medical personnel estimated Elizabeth Whitener had been deceased in excess of 12 hours." Locke admitted to being high at the time her daughter was dying. But she is now trying to convince a jury that she's been clean and sober since that day in 2023. "She immediately was remorseful at the hospital, and she was told that her baby had died," said Kreck. It will be up to a jury to decide if Locke's admitted reckless behavior and severe neglect deserve leniency because of drug abuse. Locke could face a sentence ranging from probation to 99 years in prison. That decision, in a first-of-its-kind case that shows the deadly consequences of fentanyl, could come as soon as Tuesday, Aug. 12.
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911 call released in Franklin Township, N.J. double murder-suicide
A chilling 911 call was released Monday in the Franklin Township, New Jersey double murder-suicide from earlier this month. Police say Sgt. Ricardo Santos shot and killed former girlfriend Lauren Semanchik, 33, and her new boyfriend, firefighter Tyler Webb, 29, on Aug. 2, before turning the gun on himself. A neighbor says on the recording she heard gunshots and screams. "I just heard a bunch of gunshots and it sounded very loud," a woman said. "It's not on this property. I just heard it from this property, um, and I heard some screaming." Prosecutors say officers responded to the scene but then left, and the bodies were discovered the next day by Semanchik's father. Semanchik's family claims Santos stalked her, and says she tried to get a restraining order, but police never called her back. "She tried to block him many times and he continued to call her from restricted numbers. He showed up at her work, that's where the car was keyed. He put recording devices in her home, water in her gas tank. He harassed her left and right," Semanchik's sister, Deanna, said. Semanchik was a veterinarian, and Webb was a member of the Pinewald Pioneer Volunteer Fire Company. As a result of the shootings, the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office placed Franklin Township Police Chief Timothy Snyder and Sgt. Kevin Bollaro on administrative leave, and appointed Hunterdon County Police Capt. Paul Approvato as interim officer-in-charge. CBS News New York has been unable to get a comment from Franklin Township police.
