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Off-Duty Pilot Who Tried to Shut Off Engines Expresses Regret in Court

The former Alaska Airlines pilot had consumed psychedelic mushrooms two days before the flight. Judges approved plea agreements in his case on Friday.

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Joseph D. Emerson, an off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot, was sitting in an extra seat in the cockpit during a flight on Oct. 22, 2023, when he tried to cut fuel to the engines, the authorities said.
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Police Arrest Man Suspected of Robbing Macklemore’s House in Seattle

Two masked men crept into the rapper’s house in June, attacked a nanny with bear spray and stole jewelry, including a Seattle Sounders soccer championship ring, the police said.

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Macklemore performing in Lisbon last year. He was not home when two men broke into his Seattle home in June and stole jewelry and other valuables after attacking a nanny, the authorities said.
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Man Who Faked Kayaking Death and Fled U.S. Gets 89-Day Jail Sentence

The sentence matched the period last year when the authorities believed Ryan Borgwardt had drowned in a Wisconsin lake.

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Ryan Borgwardt, left, in court in Green Lake County, Wis., on Tuesday. He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge for having led the authorities to believe he had drowned while kayaking in August 2024.
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U.S. Pilot Stranded in Antarctica Says It’s ‘Isolating and Lonely’

Ethan Guo, a content creator, said that he has been effectively trapped at a Chilean base since June. The authorities had said he landed there without permission.

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An aircraft lands at the Chilean military base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva on King George Island in 2014.
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