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 LONDON – A controversial four-lane highway will be constructed under Stonehenge, planners announced Thursday in an effort to solve a decades-old traffic problem at the ancient British monument.

 A new 1.8 mile tunnel would remove the sight and sound of traffic for visitors to the prehistoric landmark, England’s Department for Transport said.

 The World Heritage Site is among Britain’s top tourist attractions and pulls in in more than 1.3 million visitor annually.

 The busy A303 trunk road in Wiltshire, England runs right past Stonehenge. Matt Cardy / Getty Images

 However, it sits yards from the busy A303 — a historic road linking London with southwest England that has grown increasingly traffic-choked. The stretch of highway nearest Stonehenge is single-lane, creating a notorious bottleneck and prompting many drivers to slow down to get a look.

 Plans for a tunnel at the Wiltshire site were first made almost 30 years ago but have been repeatedly shelved amid concerns about the environmental impact.

 Campaign group Stonehenge Alliance says the latest scheme, which would carry two lanes in each direction, would do "irreparable damage to the landscape" and it wants a much longer tunnel that would minimize the road’s impact.

 Supporters of the government plan include heritage charity, National Trust. Helen Ghosh, director general, said in a statement: “I know there will be some sadness that people will no longer be able to see the stones from the road, but visitors will once again be able to hear the sounds of skylarks singing rather than the constant noise of traffic.”

 She added: “After many false starts and challenges, this does for the first time feel like a real opportunity to tackle the blight of the road that dominates the landscape of Stonehenge.”

 The Department for Transport said the Stonehenge tunnel was part of a $2.45 billion program of investment in the region and would cut traffic congestion. A public consultation on the scheme will run until March 5. ||||| Visiting Stonehenge becomes ever harder. You have to book ahead as if it were a swanky West End show, endure a visitor centre when what you really want to do is commune with the mysterious past – and when you do finally get your chance to walk around (not among) the stones, you need to assiduously ignore the hum of traffic from the heavily congested nearby A303.

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 That, at least, is going to change. The government has decided to go ahead with a tunnel that will take this very busy road underground for 1.8 miles, removing the horrible stream of honking traffic from the visible surroundings of Stonehenge, and so making it much easier to concentrate on the wonder of Europe’s greatest neolithic monument.

 Archaeologists are understandably delighted... oh wait, they’re up in arms. Campaigners claim the road project will wreck the extraordinarily rich and complex archaeology of the area. “We have recently started to realise that the standing stones are just a beginning,” protests Dan Snow, president of the Council for British Archaeology. “They sit at the heart of the world’s most significant and best-preserved stone age landscape. The government’s plans endanger this unique site.”

 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Winter solstice celebrated at Stonehenge in 2016. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

 This is a battle between the aesthetic and the archaeological. The A303 really is a monstrous intrusion into the immediate landscape of Stonehenge. A tunnel will make the site more peaceful, more romantic, more emotionally powerful. It should therefore make it much easier to appreciate the grandeur of Stonehenge. How can that be a bad thing?

 It is true that modern research keeps expanding Stonehenge in time and space, until experts can see the stones just as the tip of an archaeological iceberg. One study has even explored the acoustic archaeology of the site. Above all, instead of seeing Stonehenge as an isolated stone structure in the middle of an empty Wiltshire plain, archaeology now conceptualises it as part of the “Stonehenge Landscape”, a multilayered ceremonial space extending far beyond the stone circle itself and including everything from lost henges to barrow tombs. It seems this really was an incredibly important place in ancient times.

 But archaeologists are putting fashionable theories before the pressing need to make Stonehenge a better place to visit. It may not be just a stone circle – but it does include the world’s most impressive stone circle, and it needs to better presented. Researching the past is important, but so is making it accessible to modern eyes. Stonehenge has been blighted by the A303 for too long. This and other modern intrusions make it impossible to see it as John Constable or Thomas Hardy did, as a bleak romantic marvel.

 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Constable’s painting Stonehenge, c.1835, which hangs in the V&A Museum, London. Photograph: Paul Robins/Bequeathed by Isabel Constable, daughter of the artist

 The very name Stonehenge suggests romantic bleakness, for it comes from Anglo-Saxon and means “hanging stones”. Medieval people must have thought it had a gallows-like darkness out there on Salisbury Plain. The chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth attributed this strange marvel to the wizard Merlin. In Romantic art it is a remote secret, and in in Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles a place lonely enough for a fugitive to take refuge.

 The 20th century changed all that. Modern blights from busy roads to army manoeuvres to mass tourism have made it much harder to experience the mystery and magic of Stonehenge.

 These angry archaeologists can’t see the stones for the sonar studies. It is actually not news that Stonehenge is part of a vast ancient landscape – the antiquarian William Stukeley observed as much in the 18th century. He published vivid drawings of such nearby monuments as the Cursus, a huge ceremonial earthwork. Yet the sculptural and architectural authority of Stonehenge itself, those silent yet eloquent stones, can touch us across time in a unique way. Putting the A303 underground will get us closer to this ancient power. ||||| Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The plan involves building a tunnel for the A303, which runs past the ancient monument

 A controversial plan for a road tunnel past Stonehenge has been finalised by the government.

 Campaigners claim the 1.8-mile (2.9 km) dual-carriageway tunnel will cause "irreparable damage" to the landscape.

 However, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the plan will "transform" the A303, "cutting congestion and improving journey times".

 A public consultation to get the views of drivers and residents will run until 5 March.

 The busy A303 currently passes within a few hundred metres of the ancient monument.

 The tunnel forms part of a £2bn government scheme to upgrade all remaining sections of the road between the M3 and M5.

 'Time bomb'

 However, campaign group Stonehenge Alliance believes any tunnel shorter than 2.7-miles (4.3 km) would do "irreparable damage to the landscape".

 Chairman of Amesbury Museum and Heritage Trust, Andy Rhind-Tutt, described the tunnel plan as a "self-destructing time bomb" which would "do nothing" for traffic problems in the area.

 In 2015, a Stonehenge Alliance petition calling for a longer tunnel gained 17,500 signatures.

 In a statement, the group said: "The Alliance does not advocate new road building at Stonehenge, but accepts the need to improve the tranquillity and appearance of the World Heritage Site and its setting.

 "If the government insists on widening the A303 by means of a tunnel, it must be sufficiently long to avoid any further damage to [Stonehenge] and its setting."

 Image caption Thousands of people have backed a campaign calling for a longer tunnel to protect the landscape

 English Heritage and the National Trust have also given their support to the option of "the longest tunnel possible".

 Highways England's Jim O'Sullivan said: "Our plans for the A303 recognise the national importance of the route and these improvements will bring real benefit to the region and local communities.

 "The public exhibitions will provide an excellent opportunity to explain further our plans and to hear feedback from stakeholders."

 However, a report by UNESCO and the International Council on Monuments and Sites has recognised the benefits of the project.

 Tunnel history

 Plans for a tunnel past the Stonehenge site have had a long and chequered history.

 Proposals for a bored tunnel were first mooted in 1995 but the government insisted on a "cut and covered" tunnel, which was unveiled in 1999.

 The plans for the 2.5-mile (4 km) tunnel was criticised by the National Trust and other groups who were concerned about possible damage to the site.

 In 2002, revised plans for a bored tunnel of 1.3 miles (2.1 km) were proposed as part of a wider scheme to upgrade the A303 to dual carriageway status

 Following a public inquiry, the tunnel scheme was withdrawn in 2005 by the Labour government, partly due to rising costs of construction, which had doubled to £470m. It was shelved for good in 2007.

 The idea resurfaced in 2014 when the Conservative MP for Salisbury, John Glen, said any attempt to make the A303 in to a dual carriageway must include protection for the World Heritage site.

 In December of that year the coalition government gave its support to the plan for a 1.8-mile tunnel near the monument.

 Congestion on the A303 £1.4bn Proposed cost of Stonehenge tunnel 1.8 miles is the length of the proposed tunnel (2.9km)

 9.6 sq m around Stonehenge is a World Heritage site (25 sq km)

 33% of the route is single carriageway

 84 years since the A-road opened PA

 Stonehenge is one of the Europe's most recognisable prehistoric monuments.

 The history of the Wiltshire site dates back 4,500 years and it is the only surviving lintelled stone circle in the world. |||||
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– It could finally be tunnel time at Stonehenge. NBC News reports that the 1.3 million annual visitors to the famous landmark have been dealing with increasing traffic on a nearby highway for years. Officials first proposed a tunnel to cut down on noisy and unsightly traffic yards away on the A303 nearly 30 years ago, but it never materialized. Now the British government has finalized plans to build that tunnel, according to the BBC. The 1.8-mile tunnel would include four lanes and cost an estimated $1.7 billion. The secretary of England's Department of Transport says the tunnel will reduce traffic and travel times near Stonehenge. But the tunnel remains controversial, with Stonehenge fans weighing in on both sides. One supporter says tourists will "once again be able to hear the sounds of skylarks" instead of traffic. And UNESCO, which lists Stonehenge as a World Heritage Site, is in favor of the tunnel. But the Council for British Archaeology is against it, the Guardian reports. The council's president says the area around Stonehenge is the "world's most significant and best-preserved stone-age landscape." That's why the Stonehenge Alliance also opposes the current tunnel plan. The group wants the tunnel length increased to at least 2.7 miles to reduce disruption to the immediate area. Officials are accepting public comment on the tunnel through the beginning of March.


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 A woman fell to her death as she and her husband used a smartphone app to find a safe way down from a peak in Snowdonia, an inquest heard.

 Experienced climbers Jane and Gary Wilson, from Stockport , decided against going to the summit of Tryfan as dusk was approaching.

 Using only Mr Wilson’s phone to find a route down, they headed across the mountain’s west face, known for its loose rocks and steep inclines.

 In a statement, Mr Wilson described what unfolded at the inquest of his wife in Ruthin by John Gittins, the coroner for North Wales East and Central.

 He said Jane, 53, an academic engagement librarian at the University of Manchester who was also known as Jane Marshall, went a short distance ahead of him to look for a suitable route and he asked her if it was safe.

 “I asked ‘Is it OK? Is it safe?’ and we said we would only go if we both agreed,” he said.

 Mr Wilson then heard a kind of exclamation, then another, followed by the sound of a rock fall.

 Realising his wife had fallen and that, with limited first-aid knowledge he was unlikely to be able to help her, he climbed to a safer ledge and raised the alarm.

 “I didn’t go down in case I was also injured or killed,” he said.

 Mr Wilson was eventually led to safety by members of the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team who found his wife’s body over 150 metres lower down. She had fractured her skull and sustained several other severe injuries.

 Detective Constable Tim Bird, the leader of the rescue team, told the inquest that Mrs Wilson, had apparently fallen 20-30 feet down a vertical cliff, then tumbled about 150 metres down into an area known as Notch arrete.

 He said that although the weather was dry, the light boots worn by Mrs Wilson were not suitable for such rough terrain and she could have slipped.

 After abseiling two days later down to the spot where her body was found he himself was hit by falling rocks.

 DC Bird told the hearing: “The change in route was an attempt to traverse the west face to avoid the summit. It would have been better to have retreated the way they had come or gone to the North Ridge, but unfortunately they probably saw a footpath and joined up the dots.”

 He said that there would not have been as much detail on the smartphone app as on a normal map.

 The inquest heard that Mrs Wilson, of St Alban’s Avenue in Heaton Chapel, Stockport, was a fit and active woman and she and her husband had been mountain walking and scrambling for six years. She had run in the New York Marathon and Great North Run.

 The coroner recorded a conclusion of accidental death. ||||| “Due to the nature of mobile devices when navigating the real world, we will continue to encourage our customers to carry a paper version of the place they are exploring.”

 Chris Lloyd, who was among the Ogwen Rescue team which responded to the call, described the route the pair had taken as “not a straightforward path”.

 He said: “There are some tricky little rock steps, particularly at the top end.”

 Mr Lloyd added that Tryfan is responsible for “about 30 per cent” of the incidents the Ogwen Rescue team had to attend.

 "Anyone climbing the North Ridge for their first time might well be advised to go with someone who has experienced the North Ridge before,” he said.

 “It is a superb scramble but can easily be hazardous to the unwary.”

 Today, Andy Simpson, a spokesman for Mountain Rescue England and Wales also urged walkers to use a map and compass in addition to electronic navigation aids.

 He said: “Mountain Rescue would always advocate using a map and compass to navigate, either instead of or in addition to any electronic navigation aids. Apart from potential difficulties caused by poor detail on an electronic map, batteries on mobile phones have a nasty habit of running out just when you need them most."

 Speaking at the inquest, Detective Constable Tim Bird, the leader of the rescue team, said Mr Wilson had been using an Ordnance Survey app on his smartphone.

 He said: “The image would have been small and not as detailed as on a proper map. There is no easy way up Tryfan but there are easier routes.”

 Detective Bird said Mrs Wilson had fallen 20-30ft down a vertical cliff, then tumbled about 150 metres down into an area known as Notch arrete.

 He said that although the weather was dry, the light boots worn by Mrs Wilson were not suitable for such rough terrain and she could have slipped.

 After abseiling two days later down to the spot where her body was found, he said he was hit by falling rocks.

 DC Bird told the hearing: “The change in route was an attempt to traverse the west face to avoid the summit. It would have been better to have retreated the way they had come or gone to the North Ridge, but unfortunately they probably saw a footpath and joined up the dots.”

 The inquest was told Mrs Wilson was a fit and active woman and that she and her husband had been mountain walking and scrambling for six years.

 The coroner recorded a conclusion of accidental death. ||||| Image copyright Google Image caption Jane Wilson fell and died while heading across Tryfan's west face

 An experienced mountain walker fell to her death while looking for a safe route off Snowdonia's Tryfan peak, an inquest has heard.

 Jane Wilson and her husband Gary, of Stockport, decided not to go to the summit during the walk on March 25.

 Instead, using Mr Wilson's smartphone to guide them, they headed across the mountain's west face but Mrs Wilson fell 30ft (9m) down a vertical cliff.

 The coroner recorded a conclusion of accidental death.

 The hearing was told Mrs Wilson, a librarian at Manchester University, fractured her skull and sustained other severe injuries in the fall.

 In a statement to John Gittins, the coroner for north Wales east and central, Mr Wilson said his wife went a short distance ahead of him to look for a suitable route.

 "I asked 'Is it OK? Is it safe?' and we said we would only go if we both agreed," he said.

 Raised the alarm

 Realising his wife had fallen, he climbed to a safer ledge and raised the alarm.

 Mr Wilson was led to safety by members of the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team, who found his wife's body.

 Det Con Tim Bird, the leader of the rescue team, told the inquest: "The change in route was an attempt to traverse the west face to avoid the summit.

 "It would have been better to have retreated the way they had come or gone to the north ridge, but unfortunately they probably saw a footpath and joined up the dots."

 The inquest was told Mrs Wilson was a fit and active woman and that she and her husband had been mountain walking and scrambling for six years. |||||

– A hiker's fatal fall in March has been blamed on using a smartphone app map instead of an actual map. The BBC reports Jane Wilson and her husband Gary were hiking on Tryfan in Wales when it started to get dark and they decided to skip the summit. While attempting to descend the mountain, Gary was looking at an Ordnance Survey app while Jane went a short way ahead to make sure the path was safe, according to the Telegraph. The Manchester Evening News reports Gary heard his wife fall, got to safety, and called for help. Rescuers found the 53-year-old librarian's body at the bottom of a 30-foot cliff with a fractured skull. At a hearing Friday, Jane's was ruled an accidental death due, in part, to using an app instead of a map. "Apart from potential difficulties caused by poor detail on an electronic map, batteries on mobile phones have a nasty habit of running out just when you need them most," the Telegraph quotes a spokesperson for Mountain Rescue England and Wales as saying. A detective says the app map "would have been small and not as detailed" and took the couple on a route that was not the safest. A director with Ordnance Survey says hikers should always use the app in conjunction with an actual map "due to the nature of mobile devices when navigating the real world." Authorities also say Jane wasn't wearing appropriate footwear for the hike. (Go inside the futile search for "Inchworm" on the trail.)


A grandfather from England died after doctors allegedly pumped cleaning detergent into his lungs instead of saline, due to an accidental mix-up.

 William Hannah, 68, was taken to Salford Royal Hospital in Sept. 2017 after he was hit by a car. While he was being treated for a head injury and multiple fractures, Hannah developed a lung infection, and his doctor decided to do a saline flush, a common treatment to clear out the sick lung.

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 But according to lawyers for Hannah’s family, which is now suing the hospital, the doctor’s assistant accidentally grabbed cleaning detergent instead of saline.

 “During the procedure the doctor found there was no saline solution in the equipment trolley and so asked a healthcare assistant to pass this to him. However, the assistant became confused and instead of providing the doctor with the requested saline, accidentally handed him an unlabelled bottle containing detergent that they had prepared for cleaning equipment. The doctor then unknowingly used the cleaning solution to wash-out William’s lung,” the Hannah family lawyers said in a press release shared with PEOPLE.

 The doctor realized the error when he went to clean the surgical equipment following the procedure, and asked for the cleaning detergent. He tried to get as much of the detergent out of Hannah’s lungs as possible, but according to the lawyers his condition worsened from there, and he died the next day.

 The exact cause of Hannah’s death will be part of a larger inquiry next year, but the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust has already conducted an internal investigation.

 “The review of Mr. Hannah’s care at Salford Royal highlighted that he did not receive the high standard of care we always pride ourselves on delivering and we apologize unreservedly to his family for this,” Dr. Pete Turkington, the Trust’s medical director, tells PEOPLE in a statement. “We have since introduced new measures to ensure something like this will not happen again.”

 “We once again offer our deepest sympathies to William Hannah’s family for the loss of their much loved family member.”

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 Turkington said the Trust has worked with the Hannah family throughout the investigation and has held several meetings — but Hannah’s daughter Lisa said not enough has been done.

 “Unfortunately, we do not feel that the Trust has treated us with the compassion and respect we would have expected during the course of the investigation. This has added to the distress and upset we as a family have experienced during such a difficult time,” she said in a statement. “Our dad didn’t deserve to have this happen to him and that’s why we are trying to ensure that no other families suffer as we have. It took an inordinate amount of resilience and time to receive answers from the hospital and we do not want any other family to have to work so hard in future.”

 The Hannah family is suing “to hold the hospital trust to account and to ensure lessons are learned,” and hearings will begin in Feb. 2019. ||||| Image copyright Family handout Image caption Salford Royal Hospital have apologised to the family of grandfather William Hannah (left)

 A seriously ill grandfather had his lungs accidentally washed out with cleaning detergent at an NHS hospital, a report has revealed.

 William Hannah, 68, of Bolton, died the day after the botched procedure, though it is not yet known if it contributed to his death in September 2017.

 He was being treated at Salford Royal Hospital after being hit by a car.

 The hospital said Mr Hannah "did not receive the high standard of care we pride ourselves on delivering".

 Mr Hannah's family have instructed lawyers ahead of an inquest into his death at Bolton Coroner's Court in February.

 His daughter Lisa, 44, said: "This is supposed to be an outstanding hospital but this was an appalling and unbelievable mistake.

 "Our dad didn't deserve to have this happen to him and that's why we are trying to ensure that no other families suffer as we have."

 After suffering a traumatic brain injury and multiple fractures in the car accident, Mr Hannah was moved to the critical care unit and placed on a ventilator.

 Image copyright Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Image caption Due to a communication error Lancer neutral detergent solution (middle) was used instead of the usual Endozime AW (left)

 When a doctor tried to improve his breathing he was mistakenly handed a bottle containing detergent mixture to wash out Mr Hannah's lungs.

 According to an internal investigation report by Salford Royal Hospital, a second, "thorough washout of the right lung" was carried out when the error was realised.

 The serious incident report by Salford NHS bosses concluded multiple factors led to the mistake.

 "These factors include - un-stocked trolley; distraction by other life critical tasks; lack of clear two-way communication; no labelling of bottle; inadequate staff training and lack of... risk assessment," it said.

 The report also noted that "the clinical impact of the errors on the patient is unknown at this point".

 Dr Pete Turkington, medical director from Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, said a "comprehensive investigation" into Mr Hannah's care found that "he did not receive the high standard of care we always pride ourselves on delivering".

 He said the trust had apologised and had "introduced new measures to ensure something like this will not happen again." |||||
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– A UK hospital made an "appalling" error right before a 68-year-old died there, says his daughter, and now she and her family are suing the hospital for it. William Hannah passed away in September 2017 at Salford Royal Hospital while being treated after a car accident that had left him with several broken bones and serious head injuries, the BBC reports. Hannah also developed a lung infection, and it was while trying to ease his breathing that hospital staff made the mistake that has spurred the Hannah family's complaint. Per a release from their lawyers, a doctor went to flush out one of Hannah's lungs with saline solution, but an assistant accidentally passed him a bottle of cleaning detergent instead, which the doctor then "unknowingly" used to rinse Hannah's lung, People reports. The doctor realized the mistake afterward and tried to get as much of the detergent out of Hannah's lung as he could, but Hannah's lawyers say the grandfather's condition deteriorated and he died the next day. In a statement to People, the hospital's medical director acknowledges that Hannah "did not receive the high standard of care we always pride ourselves on." The BBC cites an internal hospital report that found what happened to Hannah was due to various factors, including poor communication and staff training, a container without a label, an equipment cart that wasn't adequately stocked, and "distraction by other life critical tasks." An inquiry into the exact cause of Hannah's death will take place in early 2019. (Glenn Frey's widow says Mount Sinai caused his death.)


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Jail Source: The Inmates Are Sick of Lindsay Lohan

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 As far as reports go, Lindsay Lohan is eating the same meals as regular inmates at the Century Regional Detention Facility . But that doesn't mean she's being entirely treated like the others "She's not treated like if it was anyone else going to jail," Maria Medina, a relative of an inmate at Lohan's jail tells PEOPLE. "Like, if they even want to bring her new clothes or bring her anything, they put the whole facility on lockdown. It happens all the time."Medina, 40, says residents at the jail, based in Lynwood, Calif., find it unfair that someone they're not even allowed to see is exerting so much control over their stay."All the inmates are sick of Lindsay," Medina says. "It's almost like Lindsay Lohan's here, but she's not. Like if she even moves, they put the whole facility on lockdown. It happens all the time. For example, just yesterday [Friday], Lindsay had to go to the mini-clinic, and the whole place was on lockdown again."Los Angeles Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore denied Medina's claim. "It's business as usual. Lindsay's getting no special treatment," he told PEOPLE on Saturday. He also said there is no such thing as "lockdowns."As far as Lohan is concerned, she's now apparently in a much better state of mind than earlier this week."[Lindsay's] doing well, she's doing fine," Lohan's lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley tells PEOPLE. "Her outlook is definitely more positive."Despite speculation that Lohan was given exemptions when it came to visitation limits , Holley told reporters her client is playing by the rules, saying,"[Her family's] not allowed any more visits this week."Whitmore earlier this week told PEOPLE that Lohan received her visits during the week to avoid disrupting other families visiting on the weekend with ensuing TV crews and photographers. ||||| Lindsay Lohan throws hissy fit in jail, inmates taunt her with 'fire crotch' nickname: report

 McNew/Pool Lindsay Lohan is reportedly facing some mean girls in jail.

 LiLo can't handle the mean girls in jail.

 Lindsay Lohan reportedly threw a hissy fit and was placed in isolation after several inmates taunted her.

 "Some of the inmates in our ward, some of the tougher ones, were yelling 'fire crotch' at her," a prisoner released from the Lynwood, Calif., lockup told Britain's Daily Mirror.

 "They just started chanting it at her. Lindsay didn't say nothing. She was crying though."

 Inmates said the "Mean Girls" star began screaming at jail guards, who barred her from leaving her cell Friday.

 Lohan, 24, is serving a 90-day sentence for violating her probation by skipping out on court-ordered alcohol education classes this year. She is, however, expected to be released as early as next week due to overcrowding in the California jail system. |||||

– Inmates at a California women's prison are finding that being locked up with Lindsay Lohan is cruel and unusual punishment, according to a relative of one of Lohan's fellow prisoners. "All the inmates are sick of Lindsay," she tells People. Like if she even moves, they put the whole facility on lockdown. If they even want to bring her new clothes or bring her anything, they put the whole facility on lockdown. It happens all the time." Jail officials, however, say Lohan isn't getting star treatment. "It's business as usual," a spokesman said. "Lindsay's getting no special treatment." Lohan—who was placed in isolation after being taunted by prisoners chanting "fire crotch" at her, according to the New York Daily News—may be freed as soon as today, less than a week into a sentence that was originally 90 days.


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Yahoo Shareholders Meeting Astoundingly Boring

 With the exception of a lone crass question from an elderly shareholder who should know better, Yahoo’s annual meeting — the first under Marissa Mayer, the fourth CEO to run the company in the last five years — was largely an uneventful affair.

 As expected, Yahoo shareholders re-elected all directors who stood for re-election and endorsed the company’s executive compensation plan. And, as expected, Mayer talked up the progress the company has made since she took the top job last July.

 The most visible evidence of that is a spike in mobile users since the spring redesign of mobile email and Yahoo’s Flickr photo-sharing service. According to Mayer, Yahoo mobile email usage has increased 70 percent since it was overhauled in April, and photo uploads via the Flickr mobile app have risen 50 percent since its redesign last month.

 “We want to build products that delight and inspire, because all of our growth starts with users,” said Mayer. “That leads to traffic and advertising and ultimately to revenue. … So we’re focused on making the world’s daily habits inspiring and entertaining.”

 At $24.87, shares of Yahoo are up well over three percent in afternoon trading. ||||| Here's the latest reason it's kinda sucky being the CEO of a public company.

 At Yahoo's shareholder meeting, a scuzzy shareholder said to Marissa Mayer, "I'm Greek and I'm a dirty old man, and you look attractive."

 He then asked about a dividend.

 We almost didn't believe our ears. We were watching a live stream of the event. But, other people on Twitter confirmed that he said it.

 Gross.

 Mayer handled it very well. She just ignored his scuzzball comment.

 He wasn't the only one asking pointless, off-the-wall questions.

 Another shareholder asked her who she was going to root for when the Green Bay Packers played the San Francisco 49ers. She's from Wisconsin, so she's root for the Pack, she said.

 She also was harangued by Walmart employees because she's on the board of Walmart. She deflected those questions, saying she was there to talk about Yahoo.

 Get the latest Yahoo stock price here. ||||| [There was a video here]

 Greek tech investor and self-described filthy senior citizen George Polis is angry about dividends! But first, he'd like to tell you, and all Yahoo present shareholders, that he's attracted to the company's CEO. Yep, this was just as gross to listen to as we thought it'd be.

 Mayer does a great job of ignoring dirty George. I wish only that we could see him, and all his resplendent Greek dirt. |||||
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– Oh, the joy of being a female CEO, and in the tech industry, no less: At Yahoo's shareholder meeting today, Marissa Mayer got to hear this from a questioner, reports Sam Biddle at ValleyWag (which has the video): "I have 2,000 shares of Yahoo, I'm Greek, and I'm a dirty old man, and you look attractive." The shareholder then went on to carp about dividends, and Mayer "handled it very well," writes Jay Yarow at Business Insider. "She just ignored his scuzzball comment." And beyond that, the meeting was "largely an uneventful affair," adds John Paczkowski at AllThingsD.


– For any non-baseball fans out there, this is a huge no-no. Texas Rangers catcher Yorvit Torrealba was playing in the Venezuelan League on Friday when he struck out badly and began yelling at the home plate umpire—probably over a strike call earlier in the at-bat. The two of them jaw for a good 15 seconds before Torrealba smacks the ump flat in the face mask, the Sporting News reports. The blow even sends the umpire stumbling backward. The Rangers say they're looking into it. "(We're) aware, but we haven't got much info yet," Rangers manager Jon Daniels says. Possible disciplinary measures will depend "on circumstances.” Maybe Torrealba is mad because he's in the second year of a $6.25-million contract, and has seen his playing time wane with the rise of red-hot Mike Napoli. One baseball writer can barely disguise his contempt on Yahoo: "Whatever explanation and apology Torrealba comes up will simply not be good enough."

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The Texas Rangers are looking into an incident in which catcher Yorvit Torrealba hit an umpire in the face during a winter league game in Venezuela, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

 "(We're) aware, but we haven't got much info yet," Rangers general manager Jon Daniels told the newspaper. “We will look into it.”

 The Texas Rangers are investigating an incident in which Rangers catcher Yorvit Torrealba struck an umpire in the face during a winter league game in Venezuela. (AP Photo)

 The incident, captured in a video that went viral Friday on the Internet, shows Torrealba, playing for Leones del Caracas in his native country, striking out swinging and then throwing his hand up toward the umpire. The umpire immediately ejects Torrealba, leading to a face-to-face confrontation. After a few seconds, Torrealba is seen—with an open hand—pushing the umpire’s facemask.

 Asked by the Star-Telegram if Major League Baseball or the Rangers might take disciplinary action for an incident in a non-MLB game, Daniels said: “Depends on circumstances.”

 Torrealba is entering the second year of a two-year, $6.25 million contract with the Rangers signed last offseason. He batted .273 with seven home runs and 37 RBIs in 113 regular-season games. The Star-Telegram noted that his playing time diminished in the postseason when a red-hot Mike Napoli became the team’s No. 1 catcher. ||||| Texas Rangers catcher Yorvit Torrealba has always played the game of baseball with a lot of fire and a lot passion. Unfortunately, the 11 year big league veteran took that fire and passion too far while playing for Leones del Caracas of the Venezuelan League on Friday.

 After Torrealba took an ugly cut at a breaking ball and missed for strike three, he immediately began a heated discussion with home plate umpire Dario Rivero, Jr over a disputed strike call earlier in the at-bat. The two men jawed face-to-face for a good fifteen seconds before Torrealba struck the umpire in the face mask with the palm of his hand and pushed him away.

 Here's video of the incident from the Venezuelan League broadcast on Friday afternoon. The punch will come 35 seconds in.

 Needless to say this is an inexcusable and disgusting display by a guy I've always respected for his passion, but even more so for his high character and leadership on and off field. To see this happen with any professional baseball player would be startling, but for it to be Yorvit Torrealba is absolutely stunning.

 There's no doubt baseball can get the best of even the very best on any given day, but whatever explanation and apology Torrealba comes up will simply not be good enough. It's a very sad and very disappointing situation. There's no other way for me to put it.

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Here is a news article: Cal Fire Battalion Chief Gino DeGraffenreid was about to jump back into his truck after loading a fleeing family into a police car when he thought he heard someone yelling amid the roaring wind and fire in the hills northeast of Santa Rosa.

 He ran toward the voice and saw them: a couple wearing next to nothing, freezing amid an unprecedented fire belching smoke and raining firebrands.

 “They were soaking wet,” DeGraffenreid said. “They had awoken to a smoke detector, jumped in the pool and for about an hour had been in the pool trying to stay away from heat.”

 He wrapped them in T-shirts, put them into his truck and caravaned with police down Michele Way to Mark West Springs Road, a white-knuckle trip with fire and intense heat — a burning neighborhood already wiped clean of all that had once been so familiar.

 “All of the landmarks — the houses, the fences, the goofy Volkswagen bug — all of the visual landmarks were gone,” DeGraffenreid said.

 Gale-force winds fueled an unprecedented number of wildfires that started almost simultaneously after night fell Oct. 8 in places across the North Coast region, killing at least 40 people in four counties and forcing entire communities to evacuate, including about 50,000 Sonoma County residents.

 The battle to contain fires covering more than 178,000 acres across the region continues still.

 Tracing the start of what’s now called the Tubbs fire — named for its origin near Tubbs Lane just north of the Calistoga city limits — shows how one fire overwhelmed emergency personnel, erupting amid Diablo winds on a Sunday night when many were asleep.

 In just over four hours, the Tubbs fire made a horrific 12-mile run from Calistoga, in the northern edge of the Napa Valley, into a dense city neighborhood in west Santa Rosa. It raced through ranches and rural communities, sweeping through million-dollar homes in Santa Rosa’s hillside Fountaingrove development and tract neighborhoods in Larkfield-Wikiup. At 2 a.m., the ferocity of the firestorm propelled it across Highway 101, an unprecedented leap that spread flames into a commercial district on Cleveland Avenue and hundreds of tightly packed homes in Coffey Park.

 The fire traveled at a pace of about 3 mph, burning up about an acre a minute while spewing burning embers a half-mile or more ahead, forcing entire neighborhoods to flee in the middle of the night.

 “For a fire to move that fast is incredible,” said Eric Hoffman, a retired assistant chief with Cal Fire who rejoined the state fire agency to help manage the firefight and later calculated the fire’s speed.

 Authorities have said nothing about what caused the fire.

 Erratic winds

 One week ago, as dry, strong winds began to buffet the region after night fell, fires began erupting in a chaotic pattern across Sonoma County, like bombs going off in every direction.

 Flames engulfed a home on Mark West Station Road near the Sonoma County Airport. An electrical box was smoking on Maverick Court in the hills above Larkfield. Officers went door to door in Santa Rosa’s West End neighborhood as a Pierson Street home burned.

 The 50 mph winds flung branches every which way and knocked drought-stricken trees off weakened roots, combining with downed power lines to block major roads from Highway 101 in Sonoma County to Highway 128 north of Calistoga. ||||| Both wildfires and tornadoes are pretty terrifying things by themselves, but together? Next level.

 During the most recent deadly wildfire that broke out in central Portugal on Oct. 6, local firefighters managed to capture the natural phenomenon known as a "fire tornado" or "fire whirl."

 The fires, which started near Pampilhosa da Serra and spread to the city of Arganil, have killed at least 41 people. More than a hundred have now been killed in fires in the country over the last four months. ||||| Want to see something so truly terrifying that it will put this whole White House-Russia debacle into perspective? Of course you do.

 No, it's not the car that got wrecked by eel slime in Oregon. It's a fire tornado.

 ABC 7 reporter Steve Douglass was covering a fire near the Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport in northern Texas on Thursday when he caught a fire whirl on camera. Fire whirls are exactly what they sound like, taking place whenever flames get whipped up by wind and begin to suck in debris.

 Authorities quickly got the Amarillo blaze under control, but Douglass left with an impressive clip that soon went viral. Though firenadoes, as they're sometimes called, aren't very rare, the chance to record them on video is, according to National Geographic.

 And because this is 2017 and everything is awful, the Texas video wasn't even the only fire tornado caught on camera this month. In California, where there were 15 wildfires burning across the state, the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada made a time-lapse of a fire whirl near Oroville, according to KXTV.

 "The one reason why this might be kind of spectacular is it represents this leading-edge vortices, or what some people call a 'firenado,'" lab director Graham Kent told SF Gate. "The heat blows up. It's hot. It burns."

 Though arguably less scary than a Sharknado, fire tornadoes are no joke. Inside, their cores can be up to 2,000 degrees hot, and they can grow to 1,000 feet tall. Even studying them can be difficult: In 2014, 13 people were wounded after a fire tornado experiment being put on in a muesum exploded.

 As such, researchers have struggled with how best to fight them in recent years. Videos like the ones circulating online this week may help with that.

 "Decisions are being made with our footage," Kent told SF Gate. ||||| ‘Like a blowtorch’: Powerful winds fueled tornadoes of flame in Tubbs Fire

 The firestorm flipped over cars, like one on Dogwood Drive in the devastated Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa. The firestorm flipped over cars, like one on Dogwood Drive in the devastated Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa. Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, The Chronicle Buy photo Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, The Chronicle Image 1 of / 83 Caption Close ‘Like a blowtorch’: Powerful winds fueled tornadoes of flame in Tubbs Fire 1 / 83 Back to Gallery

 The Tubbs Fire that raged through Santa Rosa last week unleashed a series of fiery tornadoes powerful enough to flip cars, yank trees out of the ground and rip homes apart, fire scientists said Wednesday.

 Gusts of up to 73 mph were recorded at the weather stations after the fires broke out Oct. 8, but the extraordinary damage documented during postmortem evaluations indicated that much more powerful forces were at play.

 “We had trees ripped out of the ground, cars turned over, garage doors ripped off their hinges and wrapped around trees in the front yards,” said Scott Upton, the northern region chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and an expert on fire behavior. “It was no different than a hurricane, really, but instead of rain we had a fire event. I’ve been in this business 30 years and it’s the worst I’ve seen.”

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 Upton said fire whirls, also known as fire tornadoes, probably happened in all the North Bay fires, but the most destructive evidence was found in Santa Rosa neighborhoods flattened by the Tubbs Fire, which has killed at least 22 people and burned 36,432 acres. Recovery teams are still searching for remains in the rubble.

 The homes destroyed in the city’s Fountaingrove and Coffey Park neighborhoods burned in rapid succession. As flames driven by powerful winds slammed into the neighborhoods, the heat rose up, pulling the wind with it and creating a kind of vortex of air that circled around at hurricane-force speeds.

 “Think about the massive release of heat in a fire like that, and then the wind gets obstructed by homes and you get the eddying,” Upton said. “The hot air mixes with cooler air, and that’s when it will start to turn, creating a fire whirl.”

 The whirling winds blew fire sideways into homes in Santa Rosa, peeled off roofs, and even lifted and turned vehicles. Survivors recounted running out of their homes into the equivalent of a blast furnace, with embers flying everywhere amid a terrible gale.

 “They can be incredibly powerful if you add more heat or wind or fuel, like in this fire,” he said.

 Upton compared the situation to Lake County’s Rocky Fire in August 2015, when superheated flames, fueled by dry brush, sent huge clouds of smoke as far as 35,000 feet into the atmosphere, where they actually formed ice caps, pushing out wind in every direction.

 In the Tubbs Fire, superheated air also lifted off the ground and created wind, but that’s where the similarities end.

 Upton said fire tornadoes normally occur in open spaces, kind of like the way dust devils form on farmland and fields. He said the the 2003 Cedar Fire, which burned 280,000 acres, destroyed 2,232 homes and killed 15 people in San Diego County, is the closest comparison.

 Just like the Wine Country blazes, the Cedar Fire spread rapidly as a result of Santa Ana winds and fire tornadoes. The 1991 Oakland Hills Fire, which killed 25 people and destroyed 3,500 houses, also created its own weather — a firestorm.

 Fire whirls can be extremely violent. They have been known to lift all-terrain vehicles off the ground. In 1926, a fire whirl in San Luis Obispo lifted an entire home into the air and carried it across a field before dropping it. Two people were killed.

 The phenomenon can’t happen without strong winds and dry fuel, which have been in abundance throughout Northern California.

 The night the fires started on Oct. 8, the winds were a steady 40 mph, pushing flames east to west through a valley in the hills along Petrified Forest and Mark West Springs roads, feeding it like oxygen nourishes a torch, and driving it into the flatland neighborhoods.

 “Just like water flows from higher to lower elevation, winds flow down a pressure gradient as they go from high pressure to low pressure,” said Max Moritz, a wildfire specialist with the UC Cooperative Extension. “When they get concentrated, like through a mountain pass, they will speed up, like a river going through a narrow channel.”

 Moritz said powerful winds also drove the Hanley Fire, which burned almost the exact same area in 1964.

 That fire, which ignited when a hunter discarded a cigarette, burned 83,000 acres over a week and leveled 84 homes, 24 summer cabins and countless farm buildings; included was the historic Tubbs Mansion. Nobody was killed in the fire, which was finally halted on the north perimeter of Santa Rosa, but those who fought it were traumatized.

 “This is the craziest fire I’ve ever seen,” Grant King, the chief of the Guerneville Fire Department, told The Chronicle at the time. “The wind just hangs back, then fire comes in a rush with the wind, and you’re dead.”

 The wind-driven Tubbs Fire shot out of the same canyon into Fountaingrove and Coffey Park.

 “It was a very different kind of fire that happened Sunday night,” said Ken Pimlott, the director of Cal Fire. “The fire was almost horizontal. When it hit those homes it was like a blowtorch. With all those fires burning, it generated so much heat that it created its own circular patterns.”

 Upton said the Atlas Fire, which blasted through Napa Valley homes and wineries, threw embers way out in front, causing spot fires, and also occasionally formed fire whirls, but it didn’t display as much wind power as the Tubbs Fire did.

 “I've seen fires melt cars and literally reduce them to little more than metal and aluminum pooled on the ground,” he said, but he hadn’t seen destruction like he saw last week. “To flip a car over has to be some significant winds.”

 Peter Fimrite is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: pfimrite@sfchronicle.com ||||| A twisting column of fire known as a “fire devil” leapt out of a wildfire in Portugal, making an already scary-looking blaze appear even more dangerous.

 Just as California has been battling wildfires in recent days, these forest blazes have cropped up in Portugal too. On Sunday in Portugal, the high winds swept up some of the flames into a swirling vortex called a fire devil, but also known as a fire whirl or a fire tornado.

 The latter name, while it may seem visually proper, is not entirely accurate — the phenomenon is closer to a fiery version of a dust devil than a tornado. Dust devils are thin spirals of air that form in hot and windy conditions — when a certain spot on the ground is hotter than those around it, it heats up adjacent air that then rises upward and can be thrown into a sideways rotation if a blast of air hits it from the right angle. The spiral picks up small material like dust as it twists up.

 With a fire devil, there is a similar underlying process: A particularly hot area on the ground makes heated air rise and, with a blast of wind, creates a swirling column of air that carries things upward from the ground — in this case, fire and ash.

 “I would just call them fire vortices but that doesn’t sound so sexy to the public, so I would call them fire devils,” climatologist Mark Wysocki said, according to Live Science. “These plumes form in a very small region over the land. … They start to rise very rapidly, and as things start to rise, they suck the surrounding air in like a vacuum. Then you get this twisting that begins to resemble a vortex.”

 The higher it goes, the thinner and faster it gets.

 Tornadoes, on the other hand, are much larger and form during thunderstorms. While scientists don’t completely understand the processes behind the funnel’s formation, it could be related to sections of atmosphere with different conditions meeting one another, like different wind speeds, moisture levels and temperatures.

 Fire devils are not common occurrences but can whirl up during a wildfire because of the heat and wind conditions during those events. They occur in dry areas, such as when a place gets little rainfall. When the vegetation is dried out enough, a spark from a strike of lightning, a poorly controlled campfire or a smoldering cigarette butt can set plants ablaze, with high winds helping to spread the flames.

 Wildfires can create walls of flame that reach dozens of feet into the air. The heat from the fire is intense, one of the many hazards to human life and anything else in its path.

 The Express reported that Portugal has seen numerous wildfires this year, due to a dry and hot summer. That includes five large fires around the nation this weekend, which about 1,000 firefighters were trying to control. One blaze in June killed 64 people, some of them on a bridge that caught fire. |||||
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– Like earthquakes can unleash tsunamis, strong winds and the California wildfires apparently set loose another type of natural disaster: fire tornadoes. And the San Francisco Chronicle says the fire-filled tornadoes that hit Santa Rosa last week, driven by nearly 80mph winds, wreaked major havoc, tossing cars, pulling trees out of the ground, and ripping the roofs off of houses. "I've been in this business 30 years and it's the worst I've seen," Scott Upton, a chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, says of the tornadoes created during the Tubbs Fire. The Chronicle explains the science behind the tornado formation: As powerful winds drive the fire's flames into neighborhoods, the heat rises and draws those gusts up with it, creating the tornado, or "fire whirl," a vortex of hot and cool air capable of mass destruction. This type of event, also referred to as a "fire devil," can be so strong it's capable of lifting an entire home in the air; the paper notes one such incident that took place in 1926. The location of the neighborhoods affected by the Tubbs Fire also exacerbated things: The wind sped up as it pushed the fire through a valley and toward residences, creating what Ken Pimlott, the head of CalFire, calls "a very different kind of fire." It was "almost horizontal," he says. "When it hit those homes, it was like a blowtorch." The Press Democrat details the Tubbs Fire's 12-mile "deadly march" from its point of origin in Calistoga to Santa Rosa. Curious to know what one of these frightening flame-storms looks like without getting too close? Mashable features a video, in which firefighters filmed a recent fire tornado raging through central Portugal. Newsweek has footage, too, out of California and Texas.


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– The passengers on Southwest Flight 3606 were somewhere over Idaho Sunday when their captain came over the PA with a message: They were headed back to Seattle. That's because there was a "life-critical cargo shipment" that had been left on board, per the Seattle Times: a donated human heart. The heart should have been left in Washington after arriving from Sacramento, but instead it stayed on the plane and was Dallas-bound before the airline realized it hadn't been removed at Sea-Tac Airport. CNN and its affiliate KTXL note that this heart wasn't intended for a full transplant; it was donated for its valves alone. That means a) it was in a thermally controlled box in the cargo hold, making it easier to forget, and b) it had, per KTXL, a "much longer transportation window" than if it had been intended for a heart transplant. Luckily, no damage came to it, and the heart got to where it needed to go on time, per the Sierra Donor Services nonprofit. The passengers, meanwhile, weren't too irked, as they were "happy to save a life," one man on board tells the Times. (Another organ donor was 107 years old.)

It was unclear what the heart was intended for and whether anyone's life was ever in danger. But the organ was supposed to be left in Seattle.

 BREAKING, 12:33 p.m., Thursday: We now know where Seattle’s airborne heart was headed after the Dallas-bound flight was turned around.

 On Sunday afternoon, a Southwest Airlines flight bound for Dallas made a hairpin turn over eastern Idaho and headed back for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The reason, the captain told passengers: Someone forgot to unload a human heart.

 Dr. Andrew Gottschalk recalled that his fellow passengers went through a series of reactions to the news, the first shock. A human heart being transported on a commercial carrier? But the next reaction was of kindness because everyone on board “was happy to save a life,” he said.

 The captain went on to explain that the heart should have been left in Seattle after an earlier flight from Sacramento.

 Then horror sank in, Gottschalk said, as some passengers with an internet connection began to research how long a heart could be viable for a transplant — mere hours.

 Southwest confirmed that the flight had to return to Seattle on Sunday afternoon after officials realized the plane was still carrying the heart intended for delivery to a hospital.

 But additional details, including its intended destination and what it was being used for, remain unclear. Also unknown is whether anyone’s life was ever in danger.

 Southwest flight 3606 landed at Sea-Tac after about three hours in the air, and the “life-critical cargo shipment” was unloaded from the plane, Southwest spokesman Dan Landson said by email. He added that Southwest made the decision to return because it was “absolutely necessary to deliver the shipment to its destination in the Seattle area as quickly as possible.”

 “Nothing is more important to us than the safety of our customers and the safe delivery of the precious cargo we transport every day,” Landson said.

 The sender was a company that specializes in shipments that are “life critical,” which can mean organs for transplant, medications or specimens for treatments, said Southwest, which did not provide the name of the company.

 But no Seattle-area hospitals said they were involved. Spokeswomen for regional organ-procurement organizations in Washington and California both said they never use commercial flights for heart transplants.

 “We only use private flights,” said Katherine Pliska, spokeswoman for LifeCenter Northwest, the organization that facilitates the transfer of organs for transplant in the region. “There’s a time limit to get where it needs to go.”

 Southwest and many other airlines work with companies that ship organs for transplants, among other perishables such as human remains, to maximize revenue, though it accounts for less than 1 percent of Southwest’s total revenue, the Dallas Business Journal reported last year. Other parts of a heart, such as heart valves and vessels, can be recovered when a whole heart transplant isn’t feasible, according to LifeCenter Northwest.

 Passenger Gottschalk, a doctor who cares for professional athletes at his medical practice in New Orleans, called the incident a “horrific story of gross negligence,” no matter where the heart was intended to go.

 “The heart in question traveled from California, to Washington, to the other side of Idaho, and back to Washington,” he said.

 Once on the ground, passengers were also told to deplane — the aircraft had an unrelated mechanical issue, Landson said. After a five-hour delay, the passengers once again took off for Dallas. ||||| (CNN) A Southwest flight was forced to turn around after a human heart meant for donation was accidentally left on board, the airline said.

 The heart had arrived Sunday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where it was due to be unloaded, officials said.

 But it wasn't until after the pilot took off for Dallas that the airline realized a "life-critical cargo shipment" was still on the aircraft, Southwest said in a statement.

 "We made the decision to return to Seattle to ensure the shipment was delivered to its destination within the window of time allotted by our cargo customer," the airline said.

 Despite the delay, the heart was unharmed and reached its destination on time, according to Sierra Donor Services, the nonprofit that organized the donation.

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 SACRAMENTO — Southwest Airlines says a Dallas-bound flight returned to Seattle last weekend because a human heart was left onboard.

 The Seattle Times reports that Flight 3606 arrived in Seattle from Sacramento. Someone forgot to unload the heart before the plane left for Dallas, and the captain announced over Idaho they were turning back.

 The heart, gifted to someone in need of its valves, left West Sacramento's Sierra Donor Services over the weekend headed to Seattle. That’s where LifeNet Health Inc. was set to remove the valves for a future surgery.

 It's a process the company does smoothly with many different kinds of tissue 1,000 times a year but this time was different. The courier LifeNet Health contracted got the box on board its designated Southwest flight.

 "My understanding is the pilot made an announcement when they turned around that they were returning because there was a heart that had been left on board that they needed to get back to the hospital,” said Sierra Donor Services Public Education and Relations Manager Deanna Santana.

 That set-off a social media firestorm as doctors and fellow passengers who happened to be on board started raising concerns online and otherwise that the lost heart wouldn't be viable.

 "They emailed some reporters and the story ensued," Santana said.

 But it was a story with a lot of misinformation.

 "No one on either the tissue processing side or on the organ donation side or on the tissue donation side missed a beat,” Santana explained. “We did everything we possibly could to make sure those gifts got to the right place and in the end, they ultimately did get to the right place."

 Tissue slated for transplant as opposed to a whole organ has a much longer transportation window. Donated heart valves once processed can wait up to four years before they're implanted.

 Donated tissue also doesn't travel with a person inside a plane's cabin. It flies in a thermally-controlled box in the cargo hold.

 While a courier for LifeNet waited for pickup in Seattle, the tissue was left behind, just like a suitcase.

 In her 30 years in the field, the director of Sierra Donor Services said she's never seen anything like this happen. Similarly, Santana told FOX40 she has not seen it anywhere in her seven years.

 However, Santana has seen the power of tissue and organ donation with her own son.

 "He saved five lives,” Santana said. “He gave sight to two people and he helped 73 people with his tendons and bones."

 The flight took off again for Dallas after a five-hour delay.

 The Associated Press contributed to this report. |||||


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The jury’s out on just how seriously Democratic candidate Dan Adler should be taken in the crowded primary to replace departed Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) in California’s 36th district, but the career entertainment executive is drawing plenty of attention for his bizarre — and possibly offensive — ad campaign.

 In his latest ad, Adler hangs out with a multi-ethnic crowd touting his appeal to Asian voters by pointing out that he’s married to a Korean and that — as a Jew — he can understand what it’s like to be a minority. In a weird and seemingly quite patronizing twist, a heavily-accented Korean immigrant woman in a laundromat awkwardly interrupts him throughout the ad, finally asking the camera “What’s a mensch?” The clip is drawing attention from viral video sites.

 It seems clear that Adler, who is backed by former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, is going the “Demon Sheep” route, using ads specifically designed to spread online out of shock value or just sheer weirdness. In another out-there spot, former child star Patty Duke declares “Dan Adler: He Gets Shit Done.”

 In a similarly foul-mouthed video, Adler ups the shock factor to 11 by having his own young son deliver the catchphrase. He then proceeds to make a special effects-assisted dunk on a garage basketball hoop that would put Blake Griffin to shame.

 Benjy Sarlin Benjy Sarlin is a reporter for Talking Points Memo and co-writes the campaign blog, TPM2012. He previously reported for The Daily Beast/Newsweek as their Washington Correspondent and covered local politics for the New York Sun. ||||| Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. |||||
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– Dan Adler is campaigning for Jane Harman's vacated House seat, and the California Democrat has an odd, possibly offensive reason certain people should vote for him: His wife is Korean! Oh, and he himself is Jewish, and as his odd campaign ad states, "We minorities should stick together." On Talking Points Memo, Benjy Sarlin notes that the most "patronizing" part of the commercial is the "heavily-accented Korean immigrant woman in a laundromat awkwardly [interrupting] him throughout the ad." And in New York, Dan Amira concludes that if Adler "didn't have a Korean wife, this might one of the most racist campaign ads we've ever seen."


Dwight Yoakam performs "Seven Spanish Angels" at the 50th annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) (Associated Press)

 Dwight Yoakam performs "Seven Spanish Angels" at the 50th annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) (Associated Press)

 Garth Brooks, who lost entertainer of the year at last year's Country Music Association Awards when he returned to music after a 13-year break, won the top prize at the show Wednesday, where Beyonce and the Dixie Chicks' surprise duet performance was met with love and hate.

 Brooks beat out Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Keith Urban and last year's winner, Luke Bryan.

 "We are so damn lucky to part of this thing called country music," Brooks yelled loudly at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.

 Taylor Swift presented Brooks the award, but she wasn't the only pop star in the building: Beyonce sang her twangy song "Daddy Lessons" on a night celebrating the CMA Awards' 50th anniversary. It was the first time Beyonce, a Houston native, performed at the country awards show. The performance also marked a return for the Dixie Chicks, who hadn't attended the CMA Awards in some time.

 "Everybody get on your feet. Put your hands together," Beyonce told the crowd.

 The diva sported a sheer champagne-colored dress that plunged in the center and layered pearls around her neck. Faith Hill sang along, Trisha Yearwood clapped and Miranda Lambert moved side to side during the song, which the Dixie Chicks have also covered at their live shows.

 Beyonce and the trio's appearance, though, wasn't cheered by everyone: On social media some fans tweeted angrily about the performance — some country music fans have disliked Dixie Chicks since band member Natalie Maines criticized former U.S. President George W. Bush over a decade ago.

 The night featured a number of other memorable performances, too: A mix of classic and contemporary country stars kicked off the show with 12 performances to celebrate its milestone anniversary, which included Randy Travis, Vince Gill, Charley Pride, Roy Clark, Alabama, Charlie Daniels, Ricky Skaggs, Alan Jackson, Dwight Yoakam and Merle Haggard's youngest son, Ben.

 Dolly Parton, who earned the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award, was honored by Reba, Underwood, Martina McBride, Jennifer Nettles and Kacey Musgraves, who all sang a rousing rendition of "I Will Always Love You."

 "I would have cried, but I didn't want to mess up my eyelashes," said Parton, sporting a bright yellow dress.

 Chris Stapleton, who won big at last year's show, was the night's top winner with two: He took home male vocalist and music video of the year.

 "What a wonderful night ... I've cried just watching everybody," said Stapleton, who walked into the show as the top nominee along with Eric Church and newcomer Maren Morris.

 Underwood won female vocalist of the year, ending Lambert's six-year consecutive winning streak since 2010.

 "Glory to God, thank you Jesus," said a teary Underwood, who also thanked her husband and son.

 Church won album of the year for "Mr. Misunderstood" and Morris picked up new artist of the year.

 "Last year, I sat across the street at a bar and watched this show. I never thought as a songwriter I'd be standing here today," she said.

 A number of celebrities were in the audience and presented awards, including Matthew McConaughey, Peyton Manning, Jennifer Garner, Olivia Newton-John, Nicole Kidman, Lily Tomlin, Sharon Stone and the Final Five Olympic gymnasts: Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian.

 Paisley and Underwood, returning as hosts for the ninth time, told jokes about politics, Wikileaks, Brangelina's breakup and more.

 "We're so sick of politics, we don't even care who wins," they sang in harmony. At one point, Paisley called Underwood a "nasty woman," mocking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

 The three-hour-plus show, which aired on ABC, also featured performances by George Strait, Brooks & Dunn, Jason Aldean and Little Big Town, who sang their new song "Better Man," written by Swift.

 The first award of the night went to Thomas Rhett, who won single of the year for "Die a Happy Man."

 "I gotta first thank the Lord ... my lovely wife in the blue dress; she was the full inspiration of this song," said Rhett.

 Lori McKenna won song of the year for writing Tim McGraw's "Humble and Kind," a tune she said was based on a prayer she wrote for her five children. McKenna co-wrote Little Big Town's megahit "Girl Crush," earning a Grammy Award this year and last year's song of the year honor at the CMAs.

 "I have a job in this town because of this guy's wife, Faith Hill," said McKenna, who was escorted to the stage by McGraw.

 Kenny Chesney, who released a new album last week, earned the Pinnacle Award. Little Big Town and Brothers Osborne won vocal group and vocal duo of the year, respectively, while Dierks Bentley and Elle King's "Different for Girls" won musical event of the year.

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– Garth Brooks, who lost entertainer of the year at last year's Country Music Association Awards when he returned to music after a 13-year break, won the top prize at the show Wednesday, the AP reports. Brooks beat out Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton, Keith Urban, and last year's winner, Luke Bryan. "We are so damn lucky to be part of this thing called country music," Brooks yelled loudly at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. Taylor Swift presented Brooks the award, but she wasn't the only pop star in the building: In a surprise duet with the Dixie Chicks, Beyonce sang her twangy song "Daddy Lessons" on a night celebrating the CMA Awards' 50th anniversary. Dolly Parton, who earned the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award, was honored by Reba McEntire, Underwood, Martina McBride, and Kacey Musgraves, who all sang a rousing rendition of "I Will Always Love You." "I would have cried, but I didn't want to mess up my eyelashes," said Parton. Stapleton, who won big at last year's show, was the night's top winner with two: He took home male vocalist and music video of the year. Underwood won female vocalist of the year, ending Miranda Lambert's six-year consecutive winning streak since 2010. Eric Church won album of the year for "Mr. Misunderstood" and Maren Morris picked up new artist of the year. Click for a full list of winners.


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You might not think that a school janitor would get rock star treatment from students, but that is exactly how the kids at Alan Shephard Elementary School in Bourbonnais, IL think of Steve Weidner. He is the school's custodian, and has been there for more than 15 years.

 He was out on the playground on June 2, while students were spending some time before school let out to sign each others yearbooks.

 The kids started lining up to have "Mr. Steve" sign their yearbooks. So many of the children wanted him to sign their books that someone got him a chair, and a line of children formed to the left. The line for his signature was so long that it wound around the playground.

 The school tells News 10 that "Mr. Steve" is very popular with the students, and he looks out for them. They say he was touched and amazed by the show of affection from the students.

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– A sweet yearbook-signing photo seems to have won over the Internet. It shows students at Alan Shepard Elementary School in Bourbonnais, Illinois, lining up to have "Mr. Steve"—aka Steve Weidner, the school custodian—sign their books. “He pays attention to the kids," principal Shirley Padera tells WGN. “The kids know if anything happens, Mr. Steve is going to take care of it.” The school district first posted the photo on its Facebook page, saying Mr. Steve had attained "Rock Star status," and from there it got picked up at Reddit. As WILX explains, there was nothing staged about it. Weidner, who has been at the school for 15 years, was on the school playground June 2 when students were given some time to sign each other's books. "So many of the children wanted him to sign their books that someone got him a chair, and a line of children formed to the left," it adds. No word from Weidner himself, but the school says he was touched by the outpouring. (Elsewhere, a teacher was inspired by his students' anonymous notes.)


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 is in terrible shape ... his mind is almost gone and he's unable to function -- this according to new legal docs obtained by TMZ.The document outlines the mental state of the legendary founder of "America's Top 40" radio program. According to the examining physician, Casey has-- major impairment to short term, long term and immediate recall memory-- major impairment to verbally communicate-- major impairment to perform simple calculations, plan simple tasks and reason logically.-- severe disorganized thinking-- moderate hallucinationsThe document was filed by Julie, one of Casey's daughters who is trying to become conservator . Casey's wife of 33 years, Jean, is fighting the move to take control away from her.The doctor says Casey has been sliding downhill for the last 3 to 4 years. He's suffering from advanced Parkinson's and dementia. ||||| The seed for this crawl was a list of every host in the Wayback Machine

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 Casey Kasem is mainly bedridden with advanced Parkinson's disease, only able to "shuffle short distances" and may have the early onset of dementia ... this according to new legal docs obtained by TMZ.

 The docs were filed by Julie, one of Casey's 3 kids from his first marriage, asking a judge to create a conservatorship and give her and her husband the power to control Casey's health care decision.

 Julie says in the papers that Casey's wife of 33 years, Jean, has isolated Casey from his kids. Julie says Jean won't even allow Casey's kids to talk with them by phone.

 Julie claims she currently has a power of attorney to make health care decisions for Casey, and that should give more than enough authority to have contact with him.

 TMZ broke the story ... Casey's kids claim Jean has not allowed them any contact with their dad for 3 months.

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– Iconic DJ Casey Kasem, who left show business in 2009 at age 77, has just months to live, according to legal documents obtained by TMZ. Kasem and wife Jean were sued by a former caregiver who says Jean mistreated her, and the case was heard (and thrown out) yesterday. A rep who appeared on Jean's behalf revealed Kasem is dying, according to TMZ. Jean herself submitted legal documents that say Kasem "is terminally ill and unable to leave home." TMZ has obtained other legal documents regarding Kasem this month; his kids say stepmom Jean has blocked them from seeing their father, and they're fighting her. Among the revelations: Kasem has advanced Parkinson's disease; may have early dementia and can only "shuffle short distances"; and suffers hallucinations and major impairment to his memory and ability to communicate, among other things.


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Dash cam video shows a car traveling about 5-10 miles over the speed limit, but what happens as the officer pulls out after the vehicle, is when things really start to get out of hand.

 An Oklahoma woman leads officers on a high speed chase by swerving all over the road and it was all caught on camera.

 Luz Avilla, 34, told Chickasha Police she didn't stop because she had a preference as to which county jail she wanted to go to.

 Dash cam video shows a car traveling about 5-10 miles over the speed limit, but what happens as the officer pulls out after the vehicle, is when things really start to get out of hand.

 "Instead of pulling over, the driver accelerated to speeds approximately 90 to 100 miles per hour," said Shannon McClain, Chickasha Police. "When you're doing 90 miles an hour and you're weaving all over the road, just the slightest movements by those other vehicles could be catastrophe."

 Just a few miles from the county line, the driver pulled over and told the officer why she took off.

 "Apparently the driver did not want to go to jail in Grady County," said McClain. "She wanted to go to jail in Caddo County was her explanation as to why she did not pull over."

 Avilla may have stopped the car, but she didn't want to get out of it. The officer yelled at the suspect to get out of the vehicle, but had no luck. He pulled out his gun.

 Back up officers were called to the scene and one by one, all the suspects got out of the vehicle. Several people were taken to jail. Avila is facing several charges including DUI and eluding police. ||||| Luz Avilla, 34, of Chickasha, Okla., led cops on a high speed chase this week because she wanted to be booked into a certain jail. The accommodations in Caddo County are preferable to those in Grady County, apparently.

 Shannon McClain of the Chickasha Police told News 9, "Apparently the driver did not want to go to jail in Grady County. She wanted to go to jail in Caddo County was her explanation as to why she did not pull over." Avilla, who was allegedly drunk, hit 100 miles per hour trying to cross the county line, but unfortunately, she didn't make it.

 She's been charged with a DUI and evading the police.

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– So maybe you've been drinking and maybe you're speeding a little, but what to do when a cop tries to pull you over—presenting you with the very real prospect of doing a little time in a less-than-desirable county jail? Step on the gas, and lead police on a merry little car chase to the county that houses your preferred incarceration facility. That is the alleged tale of 34-year-old Oklahoman and prison connoisseur Luz Avilla, who police say was 5mph to 10mph over the limit when an officer in Grady County tried to pull her over. Says a police spokesperson, "Instead of pulling over, the driver accelerated to speeds approximately 90 to 100 miles per hour." Apparently, Grady County jail is the worst. "She wanted to go to jail in Caddo County was her explanation as to why she did not pull over," the spokesperson says. Avilla also apparently did not want to get out of her vehicle, reports News9 via Gawker, and it took an officer with a drawn gun and a bunch of backup to persuade her. For posterity, the entire incident was recorded on the cop's dash cam. Avilla is facing a raft of charges including DUI and eluding police.