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An American Airlines mechanic is accused of sabotaging a flight over stalled union contract negotiations.

One island of gas pumps was closed Saturday night at the Shell station on the corner of Newark Boulevard and Jarvis Avenue after several drivers say they filled up and then broke down just minutes after pumping.

A $250,000 lottery prize is providing a ray of light for a North Carolina man battling stage 4 cancer. Richard Beare, of Charlotte, told the North Carolina Education Lottery that he rarely plays the lottery. But when Beare’s wife asked him to buy a Powerball ticket two weeks ago when the jackpot “was so high,” the retired mechanic decided to...

Omar Nabi skipped Friday prayers because of work. But news of the attack at the Masjid Al Noor mosque in New Zealand’s Christchurch filled Nabi with fear because his father had been there, NBC News reports. Nabi rushed to the mosque as soon as he heard reports of the massacre, only to be told that his father, Daoud Nabi, 71,...

Actor Jan-Michael Vincent, known for starring in the television series “Airwolf,” has died. He was 73.

After a San Francisco woman told NBC Bay Area about an oil change that led to $16,000 in damage to her car, we learned the auto shop was previously accused of fraud by state investigators — but allowed to keep its doors open.

The blast of polar air that enveloped much of the Midwest on Wednesday spread into the Northeast Thursday, putting 120 million people across 27 states are under wind chill warnings or advisories. When winter temperatures plummet, the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning increases, according to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Know as a “quiet killer,” CO is...

More than two dozen motorists who filled up with an alternative fuel at a San Jose Chevron station last weekend found their vehicles were damaged by a contamination in the gas.

An East Bay group connected with the U.S. Coast Guard pitched in Sunday to help those affected by the federal government shutdown.

A new problem complicated Florida’s ongoing recount battle as lawyers headed back to court on Wednesday: Palm Beach County’s tallying machines have overheated, causing mismatched results with the recount of 174,000 early voting ballots.

A 93-year-old woman who was stranded in her Magalia, California, home as a raging wildfire spread through the county was rescued by her longtime sanitation worker on the last stop of his shift. NBC affiliate KCRA reports Margaret Newsum feared for her life after hearing news on TV Thursday morning about the Camp Fire threatening the town of Paradise, about...

Polls have barely opened on the East Coast, and voting machines — and people — are already causing a few foul-ups. Experts say that the errors are normal, and that none that have emerged so far should prevent voters from casting a ballot. “There are literally hundreds of thousands of voting machines being set up, mostly by volunteer poll workers,...

Tonight’s episode of “This Is Us” travels back in time to Jack’s (Milo Ventimiglia) experiences in Vietnam and even before, growing up as a protector of his little brother, Nicky (played as an adult by Michael Angarano), and it’s the beginning of a story that will change an awful lot about what viewers know about the Pearson...

Shares of Tesla plunged as much as 9 percent Friday after news of a pair of C-suite executive resignations and a bizarre video showing CEO Elon Musk smoking pot on a podcast, capping a tumultuous month since Musk launched the company into controversy with a take-private tweet....
The stock opened Friday’s session at $260.10 before paring losses slightly. Shares were roughly...

A husband came home Monday night to find his wife and her lover dead in the garage after they both died while having sex, law enforcement sources tell NBC 4 New York.

While driving home from church on Sunday, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lieutenant Minh Dinh and his wife saw something very out of place. What happened next made Dinh a hero as he saved a terrified stray kitten from a car engine.

Actress Kelly Marie Tran has deleted all of her Instagram posts, after reportedly suffering “months of harassment” following the December 2017 release of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.”

A Tesla that crashed while in Autopilot mode in Utah this month accelerated in the seconds before it smashed into a stopped firetruck, according to a police report obtained by The Associated Press. Two people were injured. Data from the Model S electric vehicle show it picked up speed for 3.5 seconds before crashing into the firetruck in suburban Salt...

A Tesla sedan with a semi-autonomous Autopilot feature has rear-ended a fire department truck at 60 mph (97 kph) apparently without braking before impact, but police say it’s unknown if the Autopilot feature was engaged. The cause of the Friday evening crash, involving a Tesla Model S and a fire department mechanic truck stopped at a red light, was under...

A Tesla sedan with a semi-autonomous Autopilot feature has rear-ended a fire department truck at 60 mph (97 kph) apparently without braking before impact, but police say it’s unknown if the Autopilot feature was engaged.