Month: August 2022

Nearly 900 inmates escaped in a prison break in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, officials said Wednesday, blaming the attack. Islamic extremist rebels. At least 443 of the 879 escapees are still missing, said Umar Abubakar, a spokesman for the Nigerian Correctional Service, while hundreds of others have been recaptured or handed over to police stations. Officials “will track all the escaping prisoners and bring them back into custody,” Abubakar said. Later on Wednesday, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari visited the prison where senior officials showed him the facilities. He then tweeted that he was “saddened” by the attack and “disappointed” with Nigeria’s…

OSHKOSH (NBC 26) – EAA AirVenture attracts more people and planes each year. The year 2022 ended with record numbers. The theme of this year’s event was “Unlike Anything Else,” according to EAA President John Pelton, the event lived up to the name. “It’s been unlike anything else. The number of records we’ve achieved this year is absolutely incredible,” Pelton said. Wittman Regional Airport once again broke the record for the world’s busiest air traffic control tower during EAA week. One of the ways to achieve this; ushering in vintage aircraft, which was also a record as 2022 saw the…

A security guard working at 1100 Girod St. shot an armed suspect who was accused of hitting the cars early Saturday morning. The security guard was on duty when he noticed a possible suspect enter a vehicle at his location around 4:30 a.m. According to the NOPD, the security guard shot the man accused of the car attack because he saw the suspect coming. by a weapon from his waist. The defendant was transported to a local hospital by New Orleans EMS. No other information is currently available on the situation. Stay tuned to WDSU to hear more future updates….

The California Highway Patrol captured this photo of the McKinney Fire burning east of Yreka and burning about six miles south of the Oregon border. The fire grew to about 18,000 hectares by Saturday morning. [CHP photo] A wildfire that broke out Friday afternoon in Northern California was classified as 51,468 acres by Sunday morning after growing 21,468 in the previous 24 hours, prompting evacuation orders in Northern California, closing a 110 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail and putting firefighters in Oregon. alert The McKinney Fire, burning six miles west of Yreka, Calif., and about six miles south of…