Tag: D.C.

Filipinos from Caribbean successfully airlifted to Puerto Rico, await flight to PHL

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Philippine Government Response Team reported to Secretary Alan Peter S. Cayetano that the remaining 23 Filipino nationals on the British Virgin Islands together with nine (9) and 17 kababayans from Anguilla and Sint Maarten, respectively, arrived safely in San Juan, Puerto Rico today, 18 September 2017. The repatriates from the three islands are housed in one hotel in San Juan, under the purview of the Government’s Response Team. A total of […]

Video captures man breaking into fast food joint to cook burgers

WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (Reuters) – Police in Washington, D.C. are looking for a burger thief after a man broke in a Five Guys restaurant and made himself a meal. In surveillance video released by Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department from a Five Guys restaurant in the Columbia Heights neighborhood, the man is seen in the kitchen between 3:10am and 5:05am on March 18. The suspect can be seeing walking around the restaurant before turning […]

F-16s dispatched for unresponsive pilot of small plane near D.C.

(Reuters) – Two F-16 fighter jets were dispatched to check on a small plane that entered restricted airspace around Washington, D.C., on Saturday, and the fighter pilots observed the person at the controls to be unconscious before the plane ran out of fuel and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, officials said. The pilot of the Cirrus SR22 propeller plane took off from Waukesha County Airport in Wisconsin and had been destined for Manassas Regional Airport […]