The oldest survivor of the USS Arizona battleship from the Pearl Harbor attack has died at the age of 100 in Northern California. In a Yuba City’s nursing home, retired Navy Lieutenant Commander Joseph Langdell passed away based on his son, Ted Langdell’s announcement. Jospeh Langdell was identified to be the oldest survivor from the attack, and the only surviving officer of the battleship that lost almost 1,800 men.
A native of New Hampshire, Langdell still spent an additional 4 years in the Navy after the attack, but later on worked as an auctioneer, representative of a furniture manufacturer, and became an owner of a furniture store in Yuba City. Based on Langdell’s wishes, his ashes will be sent in Hawaii aboard the USS Arizona Memorial.
On Monday, Drew Peterson appeared in court as his attorney says his client has nothing to do with a murder-for-hire, and the charge is merely ‘absurd’. Peterson is in prison due to a with a murder-for-hire charge, accusing him of soliciting a person to kill James Glasgow, state attorney of Will County, who helped put Peterson in prison.
Lotto fans are getting pretty excited and praying for luck as the Powerball expected jackpot is anticipated to reach almost half a Billion dollars. This is why Powerball players are anticipating the coming draw this Wednesday with much excitement.
The political action committee of previous Florida Governor Jeb Bush has drawn the anger of Democrats after a new staffer’s history of inflammatory comments on Twitter. The co-founder of Hipster.com, now the Right to Rise PAC’s chief technology officer, Ethan Czahor made a series of offensive remarks from 2009 to 2011, while the governor believes the remarks were inappropriate.
Due to an unusual odor that spread in a cockpit, American Airlines flight pilots from Dallas decided to make an emergency landing just 45 minutes right after takeoff.
Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Center (MMC), a nonprofit organization has responded to nearly 120 calls concerning stranded sea lion pups off the California coast, from San Francisco to San Diego. The pups are abandoned by their mothers and are undernourished. The event is no longer a surprise to many experts as such event happened in previous years, although the number of stranded pups recently is becoming alarming. Any disease had been ruled out.
Former Governor Martin O’Malley went through surgery after breaking an elbow. O’Malley said he is on the mend now after the procedure. The incident happened over the weekend, at a gym. On Monday, he said on his Twitter account, that the surgery went very well, and expects a speedy recovery.