12+ min ago (329+ words) 100 days out from the Milan-Cortina Winter Games, here's what makes this Olympics one for the history books. There is no backup stadium if the main ice hockey arena for the'Milan Cortina Winter Games'is not ready on time. Construction on the arena that is set to welcome'NHL players back to the Olympics'for the first time in more than a decade is behind schedule and its completion is going'right down to the wire. A test event at the Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena " the new, 16,000-seat venue on the outskirts of Milan " had to be moved, and new test events aren't scheduled until Jan. 9-11. "So necessarily we have to be able to organize the competition in an impeccable manner at Santagiulia." The first scheduled Olympic hockey game at the arena is a women's preliminary round match on Feb. 5, one day before the opening…...

36+ min ago (285+ words) Delaware State Police are investigating a four-car crash in Newark that left a 60-year-old man killed on the morning of Saturday, Nov. 29. According to police, the crash occurred at around 9:45 a.m. on Salem Church Road, south of the overpass for I-95. The crash incident began when an unknown car following a Honda Civic going northbound tried to pass the Civic in the southbound lanes, police said. Around the same time, a Chevrolet Malibu was going southbound in the northbound lanes, police said. The Malibu crossed back into the southbound lane before overcorrecting and going back into the northbound lane as the unknown car trying to pass the Civic approached. The Malibu then struck the Civic head-on, killing a 60-year-old driver from Middletown, Del., police said. His identity is being withheld until police can notify his family. The 21-year-old driver of the Malibu,…...

3+ hour, 58+ min ago (166+ words) Starting Monday, parts of I-95 will be shuttered overnight for roadwork between Packer Avenue and Callowhill Street. PennDOT officials have announced that, starting Monday night, crews will be closing parts of I-95 through South Philadelphia for an overnight construction project this week. Starting Monday at 9 p.m., and running through midnight, PennDOT said, crews will shutter one lane along I-95 between Packer Avenue and Christian Street. Then, from midnight through 5 a.m., that same area will see two lanes closed in both directions. Officials said the closures will allow crews to do line striping, barrier installation, shoulder reconstruction and inlet repairs in those areas. This effort, PennDOT said, would allow crews to establish a new long-term traffic pattern in that area that will be in place through May 1 of 2026, as part of a $37.4 million effort to perform "crucial bridge repairs." PennDOT said that, during these shutdowns, drivers…...

4+ hour, 8+ min ago (860+ words) A construction site in Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui district caught fire on Thursday night. The death toll in Hong Kong's apartment complex blaze rose to 146 on Sunday as investigators discovered more bodies in the burned-out buildings. A steady stream of people placed bouquets of flowers at an ever-growing makeshift memorial at the scene of the disaster, among the worst in the city's history. The Hong Kong police Disaster Victim Identification Unit has been going through the buildings of the Wang Fuk Court complex meticulously and has found bodies both in apartment units and on the roofs, said the officer in charge, Cheng Ka-chun. The buildings remain structurally sound, but the search has been slow, he told reporters, still wearing his white coveralls with his hard hat and respiratory mask at his side. "It is so dark inside, and because…...

4+ hour, 20+ min ago (656+ words) The White House unveiled a 20-point peace plan that Trump said could immediately end the war if accepted, while pledging support for Israel in destroying Hamas if the terrorist group rejects it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has submitted a request for a formal pardon amid a yearslong corruption trial, just weeks after President Donald Trump said he should be pardoned. "The continuation of the trial is tearing us apart from within, provoking fierce divisions, intensifying divisions," he said. "My personal interest was and remains to continue the process until the end, until I am fully acquitted of all charges, but the security and political realities, the national interest, require otherwise." Netanyahu is facing charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate cases. Prosecutors have alleged that he exchanged regulatory favors with media owners in Israel…...

4+ hour, 28+ min ago (1019+ words) Reuben Frank shares his three biggest takeaways from the Eagles" loss to the Bears in Week 13 and they aren"t pretty. It"s not just the losses that make this feel like 2023 all over again. It"s the way they"ve lost. What really lingers about the Eagles" 2023 collapse is that for the last month and a half of the season, the Eagles didn"t just lose, they were literally non-competitive." They lost in bizarre, hapless, embarrassing fashion. Week after week. And that 10-1 start just crumbled to pieces in the span of a few weeks. The Eagles had everything in front of them and it started slipping away and nobody in the organization had any clue how to stop it. It started with a 42-19 loss to the 49ers. At home. Still the Eagles" 5th-worst loss ever at the Linc and worst…...

4+ hour, 29+ min ago (163+ words) At least one person has been hospitalized after, officials said, a vehicle turned onto its side in a crash on Passyunk Avenue early Sunday morning." A man has been hospitalized, police said, after being involved in a crash that left a vehicle resting on its side in the middle of a South Philly street early Sunday. According to police, the incident happened when a vehicle was involved in a crash along the 2300 block of Passyunk Avenue in South Philadelphia, just after 3 a.m. on Sunday morning. A man, officials said, who was injured in this crash was taken to a nearby hospital. Though, contacted early Sunday, police did not immediately provide the severity of this individual's injuries. Cameras at the scene captured images of a vehicle stuck on its side following the crash. However, police did not immediately say what caused the…...

5+ hour, 4+ min ago (312+ words) A woman was in critical condition after being shot by police officers in an incident that, officials said, unfolded along Eire Avenue in the Hunting Park section of North Philadelphia early Sunday. According to police, the shooting happened after officers responded to a report of a person with a gun along the 900 block of West Erie Avenue at about 4:11 a.m. on Sunday. At that time, officials claim, the responding officers encountered a 35-year-old woman who had a firearm held to the right side of her head. After issuing commands for her to drop the weapon, officials said, the officers used a taser on her, but it had no effect. The woman, officials said, then fled across Erie Avenue, before is alleged to have pointed the firearm at the responding officers. At this point, officials said, the officers -- a 36-year-old man with…...

8+ hour, 52+ min ago (190+ words) Eagles front office executive Dave Caldwell is reportedly leaving Philadelphia to be the Florida Gators next general manager. The University of Florida is "finalizing a deal" with Caldwell, Pete Nakos of On3Sports first reported on Sunday afternoon. Caldwell, 51, is the former general manager of the Jacksonville Jaguars who joined the Eagles" front office as a personnel executive in 2021. He is in his fifth season with the Eagles and has held the tile of senior personnel director/advisor to the general manager since 2022. The Eagles have two others in the organization with the same title as Caldwell. The team hired former Broncos VP of player personnel Matt Russell in 2022 and brought back former Jets general manager Joe Douglas earlier this year. Caldwell was the Jaguars" general manager from 2013-2020. Caldwell was fired by the Jaguars in November of 2020 and joined the Eagles the…...

12+ hour, 44+ min ago (486+ words) Both the House and Senate have started inquiries into a reported second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean last September which killed the survivors of an initial strike. The Post reported that after an initial strike showed two survivors, the commander overseeing the attack reportedly ordered a second strike to kill them. NBC News has not independently confirmed The Washington Post's reporting. The top Republican and Democrat on the GOP-led Senate Armed Services Committee said in a statement Friday that the committee was aware of recent reports. "The Committee has directed inquiries to the [Department of Defense], and we will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to these circumstances," Sens. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., said in the statement. The Republican-led House Armed Services Committee followed suit Saturday, with Reps. Mike Rogers,…...