Lynn Rippelmeyer’s reach for the sky started from an unlikely place. “I grew up on a farm in the 1950s. There were no women flying, there were no female airline pilots. I had an interest in aviation because there were airplanes flying overhead, and I thought how much fun it would be to see the world from up there. The closest I could come to pretending that was riding my horse up to the top of these limestone bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, about a mile away from the farm, and imagine...
Lynn Rippelmeyer started out as a flight attendant in 1972. A few years later, she was part of a record-breaking all-female crew and became the first woman to pilot a 747.
The junior second baseman became the seventh player in Oregon State history
Utility-scale solar contributed 4.6 GW of that added capacity and crossed a threshold of 100 GW deployed, according to the American Clean Power Association.
By Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — A former US Border Patrol agent working at a processing center in Texas was sentenced to 1-and-a-half years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to a bribery of a public official charge, according to the court docket. Fernando Castillo’s sentence stems from a 2023 federal criminal case that
By Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — A former US Border Patrol agent working at a processing center in Texas was sentenced to 1-and-a-half years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to a bribery of a public official charge, according to the court docket. Fernando Castillo’s sentence stems from a 2023 federal criminal case that
New study lays bare how income needed to be middle-class has shot up. Households in Maryland need the most amount of money to reach threshold. Meanwhile those in Mississippi need the least, new graphic shows
A Putten woman accused of faking her own stalking was convicted on Friday and sentenced to a year and a half in prison, including six which were conditionally suspended. The 34-year-old repeatedly contacted authorities and attempted to press charges against a man, claiming that he was harassing her, but those reports turned out to be false.The man was wrongly imprisoned for a year for stalking. The Public Prosecution Service has apologized to the man. The District Court in Utrecht’s verdict and...
IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America announced after 114 years that it will change its name and will become Scouting America in an effort to emphasize inclusion as it works to move past the turmoil of bankruptcy and a flood of sexual abuse claims. The rebrand is another seismic shift for an []
The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history and will become Scouting America. It's a significant shift as the organization emerges from bankruptcy following a flood of sexual abuse claims and seeks to focus on inclusion. The organization steeped in tradition
The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history and will become Scouting America. It’s a significant shift as the organization emerges from bankruptcy foll
The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its