Anonymous ID: ce7985 April 1, 2022, 3:16 p.m. No.15992571   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2930 >>3104

US Navy Aircraft Crashes in Eastern Shore; 1 Dead, 2 Injured

 

A U.S. Navy aircraft with three people aboard crashed in waters near the Eastern Shore boundary of Virginia and Maryland on Wednesday evening, killing one, authorities said.

 

Lt. Cmdr. Rob Myers, a public affairs officer with Naval Air Force Atlantic, told The Associated Press the plane was conducting routine flight operations in the vicinity of Wallops Island, Virginia, when it went down around 7:30 p.m.

 

Two injured people were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard and one was found dead in the aircraft, U.S. Navy E2-D Hawkeye, Myers said.

 

SAUCE: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/03/31/us-navy-aircraft-crashes-eastern-shore-1-dead-2-injured.html

Anonymous ID: ce7985 April 1, 2022, 3:17 p.m. No.15992581   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2670 >>2857 >>2930 >>3104 >>3138

Ted Mooney, Author of Inventive Novels, Is Dead at 70

 

Ted Mooney, who opened his first book, in 1981, with a scene of dolphin-human sex, and who proceeded to write three other offbeat, inventive novels at roughly 10-year intervals, died on March 25 at his home in Manhattan. He was 70.

 

His sister, Joan Mooney, who confirmed the death, said he had been having heart problems for some time.

 

Mr. Mooney was an editor at Art in America magazine from 1977 to 2008, and he was known for his steady hand whether working with established art critics or first-time writers. His novels, though, showed a different side, one partial to outlandish yarns that were also literate examinations of a disjointed age.

 

The first was “Easy Travel to Other Planets.” Its difficult-to-describe plot involves the relationship between a marine biologist named Melissa and a dolphin she is trying to communicate with, as well as a possible nuclear war and a disease called “information sickness,” the treatment for which is to lie flat and “assume the memory-elimination posture.” It went deep into the dolphin mind. “In shallow water,” Mr. Mooney wrote, “a dolphin thinks about the danger to his skin, which is twenty times more sensitive than a man’s and which dolphins feel to be the organ of dreams, though they do not sleep.”

 

Critics liked the incongruous blend.

 

“Mooney’s originality lies in his ability to describe the present as though it were the surreal future,” Carole Corbeil wrote in her review in The Globe and Mail of Canada. “In his drive to push things to their illogical conclusions, Mooney mixes humor and despair so adroitly that he comes up with strange new desires.”

 

Mr. Mooney’s second novel, “Traffic and Laughter,” was published in 1990. It opened in Southern California — again with a sex scene, though this one involved no dolphins — and roamed to Africa and France. Nuclear weaponry was again included, as were filmmaking, a cuckoo bird and assorted other elements.

 

SAUCE: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/books/ted-mooney-dead.html

Anonymous ID: ce7985 April 1, 2022, 3:52 p.m. No.15992803   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2892 >>2930 >>3104

Ex-USWNT goaltender Hope Solo arrested on DWI, misdemeanor child abuse charges

 

Former United States goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested Thursday in North Carolina and charged with driving while intoxicated, resisting arrest and misdemeanor child abuse, according to online records.

 

Solo was taken into custody on Thursday at the Forsyth County jail in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

 

Calls to the Winston Salem, North Carolina Police Department by USA TODAY Sports were not immediately returned.

 

An arrest warrant stated someone spotted Solo passed out in a vehicle with the engine running for more than an hour at a Walmart parking lot, and that her two-year old twins she has with her husband, former NFL player Jerramy Stevens, were with her at the time in the backseat.

 

Solo refused a field sobriety test and her blood was drawn instead. She has been ordered to appear in court on June 28.

 

"On the advice of counsel, Hope can't speak about this situation, but she wants everyone to know that her kids are her life, that she was released immediately and is now at home with her family, that the story is more sympathetic than the initial charges suggest, and that she looks forward to her opportunity to defend these charges," Solo's attorney Rich Nichols said in a statement.

 

Solo, 40, is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and helped the United States women's soccer team win the World Cup in 2015. She was elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame in January and was recently outspoken about the USWNT's equal pay lawsuit settlement with U.S. Soccer, calling it "heartbreaking and infuriating."

 

In 2014, Solo was arrested at her home in Washington on two counts of fourth-degree assault for allegedly assaulting her half-sister and nephew.

 

The case was later dismissed partly due to the prosecution's witnesses declining to testify against her.

 

SAUCE: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2022/04/01/hope-solo-arrested-dwi-child-abuse/7246272001/