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Danbury Woman Asked To Bring Loaded Guns Onto Plane, Police Say
DANBURY, Conn. — A Danbury woman is facing weapons charges after she asked to bring two loaded pistols onto a plane at JFK Airport, according to a report by the Danbury News-Times.
Tiffany Clark, 34, asked airport officers at Terminal 4 on Sunday, May 29, if she could bring her Kimber .45-caliber and Ruger .38-caliber guns with her, according to multiple media reports.
Clark, who did not have a permit for the semiautomatic guns, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, a felony, the Danbury News-Times said.
Airport services were not disrupted by the incident, the Danbury News-Time…
Upper Nyack Man Crashes Jeep, Faces DWI Charges, Police Say
NYACK, N.Y. -- An Upper Nyack man, who police said flipped his Jeep and plowed into a building Saturday, May 28, is facing charges of driving while intoxicated.
Claude D. Simon, 60, was driving on North Broadway around 1:56 a.m. when he apparently lost control of his car and crashed, Orangetown police said.
Simon was taken to Nyack Hospital where he was given, and failed, a sobriety test, police said.
They did not say if he suffered any injuries in the crash, or what the extent of damage to the building was.
He now faces misdemeanor DWI charges and is to appear in Nyack Court on Tuesday, …
State Police Release Memorial Day Arrest Data, Investigate Fatal Crashes
Two fatalities were among the many traffic incidents investigated by state police over the long Memorial Day holiday, according to Trooper Kelly Grant.
In the first incident, a pedestrian was struck and killed early Saturday while walking along I-84 in Waterbury.
Melvin Gordils, 26, of Bridgeport, was hit by two cars on the highway’s Route 8 ramp around 2 a.m., police said.
In the second fatal incident, a 75-year-old man from Shokan, N.Y., was killed, and his passenger injured, when his car collided with a second vehicle in North Canaan in Litchfield County.
That crash occurred around 5:1…
Earth, Mars Will Have Close Encounter Of The Rare Kind This Week
Attention, skywatchers: Mars is now at its nearest to Earth in 11 years.
According to universetoday.com, the Red Planet will be between 47 and 48 million miles away from now until June 12.
So break out those telescopes and binoculars, the next time Mars will be this close is July 31, 2018, universetoday.com said.
Named after the Roman god of war, Mars is the fourth planet from the sun.
It's usually about 140 million miles from Earth, and, at its farthest, it is about 250 million miles away -- and on the opposite side of the Sun.
To find out the best time for viewing Mars, visit www.timea…
