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SNIP No candidate spent more on private flights last quarter than Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who paid roughly $1.2 million to Apollo Jets LLC, a luxury charter service based in New York. That’s more than three times what he spent on private flights in the second and third quarters of the year combined. He paid $23,200 to the Vermont-based carbon offsets provider Native Energy, keeping in line with a pledge his campaign made last year to offset all travel-related carbon emissions. SNIP Not far behind him was former Vice President Joe Biden, who spent more than $1 million on private...

Debris is reported as Griffith Park. There's a home on fire in the area. Listen live

This is my first post so I hope I got it right. This is breaking here in San Anonio. A single engine plane has been forced down at Stenson Field south of San Antonio. Homeland Security, DPS and SAPD are on the scene. They are waiting for a Chinese tranlator but they have Chinese illegals in custody and said that the pilot was someone Homeland Security has been looking for. I'll post more as it comes available.

Armed secret service agents running around West lawn with guns drawn. Small plane violated airspace... That's all they're saying right now.

Retired United States Senator Strom Thurmond is set to fly to his first public appearance since returning to the state-on the private jet of a Hooters Air executive.No, there won't be any 'Hooter's Girls' on next month's flight to the 'Strom Thurmond Family Picnic' in Conway, not even a Hooters insignia-that owl with the bulging eyes- on the plane.But not this flight.'No, no, no -this is not a Hooters flight this is the private CEO's plane,' said picnic organizer and Horry Coutry GOP chairman Duane Oliver. 'There are no Hooters Girls.'Hooters Air is a spinoff of the restaurant chain famous...