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CHINO, Calif. (KABC) — A small World War II-era plane crashed shortly after taking off from a Chino airport on Saturday, killing both people on board, authorities said.The twin-engine Lockheed 12A plane crashed about 12:35 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.The identities of those killed were not immediately released, but two friends who spoke to ABC7 said one of the victims was Yankee Air Museum operations manager Frank Wright, who witnesses said had been participating in a panel at the event shortly before the crash.There were no other passengers on the plane and no one on the…
Gervonta Davis returned to action on Saturday after 14 months outside the ring and 44 days in solitary confinement. (AP Photo/John Rocker)Unbeaten WBA lightweight world champion Gervonta Davis returns to the ring after a 14-month hiatus Saturday (8 p.m. ET, Prime Video PPV) to face Frank “The Ghost” Martin (18-0, 12 KOs) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.Davis (29-0, 27 KOs) hasn’t fought since April 22, 2023, when he faced off in the biggest fight of his career against one of boxing’s biggest stars, Ryan Garcia. It took Davis just two rounds to find Garcia’s biggest weakness…
American cities are shaped by many small choices made over many years: building a park here, laying a sewer line there, rezoning this business district, redesigning that road.But every once in a while, big decisions are made — like reversing the flow of the Chicago River, building the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, or moving highways underground in Boston’s Big Dig — that change what’s possible for years to come, altering urban growth, economic prospects, or the very nature of public space.Supporters of congestion pricing say the policy could have been such a turning point in New York, promising not only new…
WNBA by Caroline McCarthy Published June 15, 2024, 8:01 PM ET Arike Ogunbowale is done with “politics”. The Dallas Wings star said Thursday that he has withdrawn his name from consideration for the U.S. basketball team for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris because he felt the selection process had little to do with “my game.” ” [the Olympic trials]”It doesn’t really have much to do with your game,” Ogunbowale said on “The Nightcap” with Shannon Sharpe, Gilbert Arenas and Chad Johnson. “What really matters is who fits on the team, so I removed my name from the list months…
A new study reveals that for the first time, demand for toys among toy lovers aged 18 and over, particularly millennials and Gen Xers, is outstripping demand from preschoolers, driving sales of $1.5 billion from January to April. When asked about the trend, popular online toy influencer Dan Larson told the New York Post that while today’s children don’t engage with physical toys in the same way that previous generations did, adults, described in Circana’s research as “the most important age group for the toy industry,” are increasingly buying toys for themselves, with 43% buying toys for personal use in…
We take the MTR together, but while Mimi heads straight for Hong Kong International Airport, I have decided to take a more roundabout way, following the Belt and Road Initiative between the two locations.A high-speed train pulled in at Kunming Nan (Kunming South) Railway Station. Photo: Kristian OdebjerSo with my wife just a few hours away from being able to order a bowl of authentic khao soi, I board a high-speed train at West Kowloon Station.We have all heard a lot over the past 10 years about newly built railways, ports and highways in far-flung places all enabled by the…
We take the MTR together, but while Mimi heads straight for Hong Kong International Airport, I have decided to take a more roundabout way, following the Belt and Road Initiative between the two locations.A high-speed train pulled in at Kunming Nan (Kunming South) Railway Station. Photo: Kristian OdebjerSo with my wife just a few hours away from being able to order a bowl of authentic khao soi, I board a high-speed train at West Kowloon Station.We have all heard a lot over the past 10 years about newly built railways, ports and highways in far-flung places all enabled by the…
Lina Mills recalls how she came to this country from Colombia at the age of 16, having never worked in her life. After arriving, she found work in a restaurant. “I had to fend for myself,” Mills told CalMatters recently. “I basically ran away from home.” She knew some English and studied further, eventually rising to catering manager, and now, 36 years later, she runs two businesses in San Francisco. She employed 12 people at Creative Ideas Catering and Creative Ideas Café, but “I had to send everyone home” during the COVID-19 lockdown and subsequent economic downturn. She has since…
Ethical ConceptsGetty As a business consultant, I am too often pressured to support business processes and decisions that appear to skirt ethical boundaries in the name of improving the business or resolving intruding conflict. I firmly believe that for long-term success, the benefits of ethical decision-making will always outweigh the alternatives of critical thinking and business leadership. I was pleased to see the key benefits of good business ethics detailed in a recent book on how to become a critical thinker, How to Become a Critical Thinker: Awaken Your Business Superpower (Author: John Cetro Sibos). John is a renowned academic…
CHANDIGARH: With the Lok Sabha elections over and state elections underway, the Haryana Congress faction of Bhupinder Hooda and the BSRK faction (Virender Singh, Selja, Randeep Surjewala and Kiran Choudhury) are once again locked in a fierce contest. Led by Haryana Assembly Speaker Uday Bhan, the Hooda faction, which has over 18 key legislators and four MPs, is set to hold its first post-election workers’ rally in Karnal on Sunday. Meanwhile, the BSRK faction is set to hold its own workers’ rally in Old Hisar district, which includes Jind, Sirsa, Fatehabad, Hisar and Bhiwani. On Saturday, former Union minister Virender…