2 soldiers die in helicopter crash during training at Fort Campbell 1 killed in apartment fire at Trump Tower in New York
NEW YORK – Fire officials said a man has been killed in in a raging apartment fire at Trump Tower in New York City.
Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said a 50th-floor apartment at the midtown tower was “virtually entirely on fire” when firefighters arrived after 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
Fire officials said a man who was in the apartment was taken to a hospital and later died. Four firefighters suffered minor injuries.
President Donald Trump tweeted earlier that the fire was “Very confined (well built building).”
Trump’s business is based at Trump Tower and his residence is there, but he has spent little time in New York since taking office. Nigro said no member of the Trump family was at the building on Saturday.
Feds charge Backpage founder after human-trafficking probe
PHOENIX – A founder of the online classified advertising site Backpage and a 45-year-old alternative weekly newspaper in Phoenix has been charged in a federal human-trafficking investigation.
Michael Lacey, 69, of Sedona, who helped build a nationwide media empire out of the Phoenix New Times, was charged Friday as part a 93-count indictment, according to Lacey’s lawyer, Larry Kazan.
Federal authorities had spent months probing whether Backpage served as a willing participant in the online sale of sex.
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – Two soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division were killed Friday night in a helicopter crash at Fort Campbell.
The crew was doing routine training at the time, according to an Army news release, and the cause of the accident is under investigation. The names of those who died have not been released.
The AH-64E Apache helicopter crashed at a local training area on Fort Campbell just before 10 p.m. Friday. The two soldiers who died were in the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade.
Mattis approves money to pay for National Guard at border
AUSTIN, Texas – Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has approved using Defense Department money to pay for as many as 4,000 National Guard personnel to perform border security missions.
Mattis made the decision Friday night. It means the federal government will foot the bill for the National Guard missions.
A Pentagon memo said the authorization is valid through the current budget year, which ends Sept. 30. It did not indicate how much the missions are expected to cost.