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Joe’s Covee Car.Photo: Joe’s Covee Car/Facebook Joe Cicchetti may be retired, but he’s taking on the job of chauffer to help New Jersey’s most vulnerable residents get to and from their COVID vaccine appointments, free of charge. Thanks to Cicchetti’s service — which he’s dubbed"Joe’s Covee Car"— local residents in two different counties can now get to their appointments hassle-free with Cicchetti and his partner Shirley Limburg behind the wheel....

Photo: Elizabeth Robertson/The Philadelphia Inquirer/AP Last year, Johnny Bobbitt’s whole world changed after a simple good deed led to a massive fundraiser, with thousands of people donating more than $400,000 to rescue the man from homelessness in Philadelphia. Less than a year later, the veteran is back on the streets after, he alleges, the couple who launched the fundraiser have refused to turn over to him the full balance raised on his behalf, according to reports....

Gavel.Photo: GettyA New Jersey man is facing up to 10 years in prison for attempting to hire a hitman to murder a teen he feared would reveal his explicit images and videos, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said.John Musbach pleaded guilty to a murder-for-hire charge at the U.S. District Court in Camden, N.J., on Thursday, when he admitted tousing a website that promised to kill an individualin exchange for a cryptocurrency Bitcoin payment, according to a news release from the DOJ....

Jashya Moore.Photo: East Orange City Hall/Facebook A reward of $20,000 is being offered for information aboutmissing New Jersey 14-year-old Jashyah Moore, whose mother believes was taken against her will. “She was abducted,” Jashyah’s mother, Jamie Moore, said during a press conference held Tuesday. “I don’t know who did it, but we’re looking for you.” The East Orange teen vanished back on October 14, after she was last seen inside Poppies Deli....

A first responder rescuing the woman from her submerged vehicle.Photo: Jeffrey T Barnes/AP/Shutterstock In a statement to PEOPLE, Detective-Sergeant Brian Nisbet with the New York State Park Police says information thus far has indicated that the woman “deliberately and intentionally drove her car into the upper Niagara River and the rapids” on Wednesday. Nisbet also notes that authorities are currently interviewing friends and relatives of the unidentified woman in her 60s as the investigation continues....

Photo: JSC/NASANASA had a unique way of testing lunar materials following the 1969 moon landing.According to a Biomedical Resultsreport,NASA conducted an experiment feeding moon dust to German cockroaches and injecting mice with lunar samples to test moon materials after the famous space milestone.Upon astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s return from the Apollo 11 mission, NASA quarantined the pair for weeks while conducting tests on their lunar samples in order to ensure contamination was not possible, the report explained....

Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock NASA is prepared to make history again as they attempt the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. Ingenuity, the experimental Martian helicopter, is expected to take flight no sooner than April 8 and will carry a small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, the Wright brothers' first airplane that took flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Getty Corbis via Getty NASA contacted the park in 2019 to explore a way to include a piece of their history without adding too much weight to the helicopter, and the piece of fabric turned out to be the best choice....

Police tape line.Photo:Getty Images Getty Images A 7-year-old girl saved her younger sister after their grandfather’s truck she was in was carjacked on the way home from picking them up from a Nashville daycare center on Wednesday afternoon. McDowell, 27, abandoned the vehicle and gun after a spike strip deflated the car’s tires and caused the suspect to crash on the right side of the I-440, MNPD said. “We started fighting,” Mena told WSMV after McDowell, who he said was wearing a ski mask, had opened the door to the driver’s side of the truck and tried to force Mena out of the vehicle....

Photo: STR/AFP via Getty The longtime suspect in the 2005 disappearance ofNatalee Hollowaywill be temporarily extradited to the U.S. in connection with charges that he tried to extort her mother, according to multiple reports. The Peruvian government has approved the transfer ofJoran van der Sloot, who is the prime suspect in Holloway’s disappearance,according to the Associated Press. Van der Sloot is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence for the 2010 killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in Peru....

Photo: Sarah Stier/Getty ImagesTheNBAhas fined the Brooklyn Nets $50,000 for allowingKyrie Irvinginto the team’s locker room during Sunday’s game.The leagueannouncedthe penalty Monday, as the move violated local laws as well as the NBA’s health and safety protocols. Irving — who has beenvocal about his decisionto remain unvaccinated againstCOVID-19— is not allowed to participate in the team’s home games at the Barclays Center in New York City due to the local workplace vaccine mandate....

DeMar DeRozan.Photo: Jason Duaine Hahn The Los Angeles area home of San Antonio Spurs star Demar DeRozan was broken into last month, and his 7-year-old daughter was reportedly the first person to spot the intruder. According toTMZ Sports, DeRozan’s daughter came face-to-face with the male suspect when he entered the home on Nov. 19. Citing a police report, the outlet said the suspect motioned to the young girl to remain quiet after he entered the home through a sliding door....

Breonna Taylor.Photo: Breonna Taylor/instagram Nearly three years after the death ofBreonna Taylor, a Department of Justice investigation confirms police in Louisville discriminate against Black people and engage in other “practice(s) of conduct that deprive people of their rights.” Based on police data, documents and thousands of hours of police body cam footage, the DOJ concluded the Louisville Metro Police Department, made up of 81 percent of White officers, uses excessive force, including unjustified neck restraints and the unreasonable use of police dogs and tasers, conducts searches based on invalid warrants, unlawfully executes search warrants without knocking and announcing and discriminates against Black people, among other concerning behaviors....

The Northern Hemisphere experienced yet another phonograph record - breaking summer this twelvemonth , with a total of 396 location experience their highest ever temperatures , BBC Newsreports . Many of these chart - topping readings were recorded during theextreme heatwavethat engulfed Europe in June and July , when C of weather stations across France , Germany , and the UK saw the mercury climb to unprecedented levels . figure make by climate institute Berkeley Earth , which collect data from thousands of weather condition post worldwide , indicate that more than 30 internet site in the US also experienced their hottest day on record this year ....