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Spirit Airlines has apologized after it mistakenly put an unaccompanied child on the wrong flight during the holiday season travel rush.The child was supposed to fly from Philadelphia International Airport to Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers on Thursday. But the minor was “incorrectly boarded” on a flight to Orlando, according to the airline.“The child was always under the care and supervision of a Spirit Team Member, and as soon as we discovered the error, we took immediate steps to communicate with the family and reconnect them,” Spirit said in a statement Saturday.“We take the safety and responsibility of...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A Philadelphia couple is dealing with the aftermath of a terrifying experience: a stranger walked into their house and began to make himself at home.It happened around 6:20 Tuesday morning on the 3400 block of Englewood Street. Home surveillance captured the suspect opening an unlocked door and walking into the home.Melissa Gladney said she had walked out of her home to go to work."I just saw black. I started yelling, screaming, the neighbors came out, but he just kept saying 'I'm sorry. I'm sorry,'" said Gladney."Fifteen seconds later, 20 seconds later, a gentleman walked in. I thought...

Red Lobster faced a staggering $11 million loss in the third quarter of 2023 - which the company's CFO is blaming on the restaurant's all you can eat shrimp deal.Financial reports from the third quarter - running from July 1 through September 30 - showed the iconic American seafood restaurant's drastic downfall. Red Lobster wanted to lure more customers in after facing a significant financial loss of $5.4 million in the second quarter - but they massively fumbled their plans by offering an 'all you can eat' promotion that was a bit too generous.The 'Endless Shrimp' offer was initially a...

A raging motorcyclist stomped on the back windshield of a car carrying a mother, her girlfriend and her two kids on a Philadelphia street Sunday, according to footage of the confrontation.The shocking moment, recorded by a tourist, shows the unidentified man riding a two-wheeler with a bunch of other motorcyclists, dirt bikers and ATV riders before he got off his bike and jumped on the car Sunday night near Philadelphia City Hall.

FOX NEWS - Billionaire Elon Musk, who also owns X, formerly known as Twitter, described videos and images of people, mostly teenagers, looting stores in Philadelphia as "going full Joker."The criminal activity came after, but separate from a peaceful protest that started after a judge dismissed murder and other charges against a white Philadelphia police officer who fatally shot a Black resident, Eddie Irizarry.Those doing the ransacking were not affiliated with the protest, Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Stanford clarified."These were not protesters, these were criminals," Stanford said. "This is disgusting. It has no place in this city." Video on social...

Thousands of people have fled from a disputed Azerbaijani territory to neighbouring Armenia amid fears that they may face ethnic cleansing. Nearly 6,700 people arrived in Armenia after leaving the Nagorno-Karabakh region, internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, in the two days since the Armenian government began accepting refugees on Sunday. Armenia's prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, said that the country has plans to look after up to 40,000 refugees, but said he expects up to 120,000 people to leave the region due to the 'danger of ethnic cleansing', raising serious concerns over whether Armenia will be able to cope with...

This is the moment an attempted thief was chased out of a jewelry store in California after receiving a beatdown from employees he had just bear sprayed.In the shocking footage, a shirtless man is seen running out of Meza's Jewelry Store in El Monte as workers chase him away from the shop.Cops told local outlets the man entered the store Saturday afternoon and began shattering display cases after he sprayed the employees to pull off his theft. The attempted robbery took a turn when the fed-up workers decided to fight back and 'engaged the suspect - hitting, punching, and kicking...

Interstate 95, the main roadway between the East Coast's two largest cities, New York City and Philadelphia, will be closed for months after a tanker fire caused a section to collapse, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Sunday.An elevated section of northbound lanes in northeast Philadelphia collapsed, trapping the tanker truck and whoever was inside beneath 500 tons of concrete, steel and rubble, about 6:20 a.m., Shapiro said at a news conference.He called the scene “a remarkably devastating site.”Corresponding elevated southbound lanes were found to lack structural integrity, prompting closure of the entire freeway, he said.No deaths or injuries were reported,...

Afghan refugees who were rescued and brought back to the US have been accused of being racist and sexist towards those helping them, a bombshell report has found.Some of them are said to have launched verbal abuse at staff and even turned their noses up at accommodation they were given.

'[Resettlement agency] officials told OIG that the [Afghan Placement and Assistance Program] involved some of the most significant challenges that they had ever faced,' the report, as seen by Fox News, stated. My heart breaks for folks in (for example) a small town in North/South Dakota who have 5 Trashcanistani families (you can't settle them without a "social network" and have to deal with new neighbors who defecate outside, let their goats roam free range and use their yards as a garbage dump. Who's offspring see largess as weakness to be exploited. This is a body shot to Traditional America.

Canadian police have released the identity of a homeless man who was stabbed to death by a pack of teenage girls last month. Ken Lee, 59, an immigrant from Hong Kong who was trying to find housing in Toronto, was beaten and stabbed by eight girls ranging in age from 13 to 16.It is believed Lee was attacked while defending a friend of his who the girls were trying to steal a bottle of liquor from. Each of the girls were arrested and charged with second degree murder, with Detective Sergeant Terry Browne of the Toronto Police calling the brutal...

The devastated father of murdered University of Idaho student Kaylee Goncalves revealed during a candlelight vigil Wednesday night that she died in the same bed as her longtime best friend, Madison Mogen.“These girls were absolutely beautiful. They’ve been friends since sixth grade … Every day they did homework together, they came to our house together, they shared everything,” Steve Goncalves told a crowd of about 1,000 people at the campus.“They went to high school together, then they started looking at colleges and they came here together, they eventually get into the same apartment together,” he said inside the school’s Kibbie...

A new video of the North Carolina woman who suffered a broken neck after being brutally beaten at a Mexican resort shows her laughing with her friends just hours before she died.In the video shared by the Neighborhood Talk, Shanquella Robinson, 25, can be heard joking about her friends taking too long to get ready inside their Fundadores Beach Club villa. 'It don't take that long to get naked. Where y'all at?' Robinson jokes in a video of her walking around the San Jose del Cabo resort. The woman, who later sustained a broken neck and severed spine, walks around...

Just thought I'd start this, see what folks are thinking.

So, advice, my son want’s to do the 50 by 50 where he visits all 50 states before he’s 50. Eastern Oregon is okay, right? Secondly, the Lovely Mrs. End Times Sentinel and I HAVE to spend one night in Seattle this September. Now, understand she’s a life long South Philadelphian, I’ve been here 30 years, we KNOW how to sense danger in the urban environments better than 95% of folks (military/LEO/First responder backgrounds)...Exactly how bad is Seattle, for folks in the area? I won’t be able to bring my EDC.Thanks in advance,

Freepers, hoping for the sage advice you’ve long provided to me. Cutting to the chase, I have a CCW and a Sig S P365 Nitron. I have a gun safe in my vehicle, as well as one in my bedroom. The issue is, Mrs. End Times Sentinel is not at all supportive of my being armed on a daily basis. Any ideas for a subtle place that I could easily/daily access this accoutrement without making a big deal out of it? She’ll figure it out in short order, but if it becomes any sort of ordeal, as we leave the...

Folks, Due to a number of painfully obvious factors, I've decided to add an EDC firearm to my repertoire. Firearms wise, a Sig Sauer P365 or a S&W Airweight 38 are in the lead. Yes, I know these are designed for a woman to carry in her lady-bits. However, in my situation, simply being able to return fire will be plenty 99% of the time, if not, I have other man sized weapons I can bring. I need something to carry without fail, comfort and concealability are far and away the most important. Gun safe wise, from time to time,...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Hundreds of refugees from Afghanistan arrived at Philadelphia International Airport early Saturday morning.Action News has learned between 250 and 300 refugees have landed.Officials from Homeland Security, the Red Cross and Philadelphia's emergency management are all assisting the new arrivals with their paperwork and COVID-19 testing.Philadelphia is just one of two selected cities to receive refugees. According to airport officials, the refugees will be heading to New Jersey's Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, which has now been dubbed "Operation Task Force Liberty.""To date, Task Force Liberty has supported 1,192 Afghans who are being housed in a mix of hard and...

At Vanessa’s Bistro in Berkeley, owner Vi Nguyen recently encountered a customer who stood in her kitchen doorway to yell at her after a server made a simple mistake. “Not talk, yell,” Nguyen emphasized, sounding increasingly exasperated as she told the story. “This was the beginning of the reopening, and we had a line of takeout orders. Her husband stood at the doorway and was like, ‘She's hungry! She needs her food right now!’”This wasn’t an isolated incident for Nguyen. Since California’s June 15 reopening of the economy, customers have gotten … a little difficult. Well, a lot difficult. Nguyen...

MIAMI BEACH, Florida (WPVI) -- Two men accused of drugging and raping a Bucks County, Pennsylvania woman while on spring break could be facing more charges, according to the Miami-Dade State's Attorney's Office.Authorities say 24-year-old Christine Englehardt, of Newtown, Bucks County, was found dead inside the Albion Hotel in Miami on March 18.Evoire Collier, 21, and Dorian Taylor, 24, are accused of drugging and raping the woman. They remain behind bars on charges of sexual battery, burglary and credit card fraud.According to a toxicology report obtained by WPLG, the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner revealed that Englehardt died from "prone positioning while...