SEATAC, Wash. – Two planes were evacuated upon arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Sunday due to what a spokesman called a “security concern.” Airport spokesman Perry Cooper says a JetBlue flight from Long Beach, California, and a regional SkyWest jet from Phoenix were the planes involved. The flights arrived …

MANASSAS, Va. – Police say a northern Virginia man was impersonating an officer when he pulled over a car being driven by a real cop. Prince William County Police say 27-year-old Shawn Michael Robinson of Alexandria pulled over an off-duty officer last Thursday. Police say Robinson was driving a white …

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – A jury on Wednesday convicted a man of strangling a pharmacist and the pharmacist’s girlfriend, whose bodies were found in his yard, as part of a plot to rob the pharmacist of the proceeds of an illegal drug ring. It was a victory for prosecutors who had …

ORLANDO, Fla. – A beluga whale has died at SeaWorld Orlando after being treated for an infection associated with a fractured jaw. Sea World officials said Friday that the beluga whale Nanuq died Thursday. The cause of death won’t be known until a post-mortem examination, but the beluga whale had …

SAN FRANCISCO – Drought-stricken California will conduct its final manual snowpack survey in the Sierra Nevada — and the outlook isn’t good. The snowpack has been in decline since electronic measurements on Dec. 30 found the statewide snow water equivalent at 50 percent of the historical average for that date. …

Another Times Correction | Tom Cruise Pushes Scientology The NY Times Backtracks on TVT Story Just as I predicted on Friday, the New York Times had to make a huge correction today regarding the TVT Records-Prudential Securities story from last week. This was the storythat followed our exhaustive reporting about …

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. – This isn’t your grandparents’ baseball game. Minor league teams from New York and Connecticut will play an experimental game this weekend aimed at finding ways to speed their pace. The Long Island Ducks and Bridgeport Bluefish will play an exhibition game Saturday, limiting every batter to …

NEW YORK – A wily coyote is no match for the NYPD. Police collared the creature near a sidewalk cafe in downtown Manhattan on Saturday morning. The coyote was spotted shortly after 7:30 a.m. in the Battery Park City neighborhood. Officers tailed her up and down a marina and a …

RICHMOND, Va. – For the better part of three decades, Virginia operated one of the busiest execution chambers in the nation. Not anymore. Statistics compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center show that Virginia has sent only six people to death row in the last nine years after sending 40 …

The Clash| Roman Polanski|N.Y. Times Arista Piece|Chicago Kudos Clash Won’t Play Rock Hall of Shame Dinner The bloated, self-important, self-invented Rock and Roll Hall of Fame holds its annual blowout a week from tonight. The group claims $10 million in assets and pays its director a six-figure salary. Butit gives …