Marcus Solis has details on the new Yonkers pilot program for first responder drones. Marcus Solis has details on the new Yonkers pilot program for first responder drones. Marcus Solis has details on the new Yonkers pilot program for first responder drones. Marcus Solis has details on the new Yonkers pilot program for first responder drones. The Yonkers Police Department is launching what it calls a "first in the region" pilot program to deploy drones to emergency situations. Not constrained by traffic, the drones could save critical seconds and minutes...

OF THE JUDGE. FIVE TEENAGE GIRLS AND A PARENT ALL TESTIFIED THAT A MAN IN THEIR CANONSBURG NEIGHBORHOOD USED A DRONE TO STALK THEM. THEY SAY THEY WERE SCARED, UNCOMFORTABLE AND TERRIFIED. GIRLS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 13 AND 17 TESTIFIED THAT THEY WILL FOLLOW BY A BLACK DRONE WHILE WALKING TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARK OR WALKING HOME. THEY SAY THIS MAN WAS THE DRONE OPERATOR. HE IS 44 YEAR OLD MICHAEL FRANCIS BRACKMAN. COLLECTIVELY, THE GIRLS SAY THEY WERE FOLLOWED MORE THAN 100 TIMES BETWEEN 2021 AND 2023. TWO...

Hurricane Beryl may be heading north, but the Texas coast will feel its impact for quite some time. Strengthening while approaching the Lone Star state, the Category 1 storm made landfall in Texas around 4:30 a.m. July 8. It is the second named storm and first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. Beryl brought high winds, heavy rainfall, and a storm surge, which left significant structural damage and at least eight dead in Texas and Louisiana. Two million in southeast Texas have lost power ahead of a 106-degree heat...

PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Commission will be setting up a time when a company that produces drones for law enforcement agencies can come and do a demonstration for local officials. Wood County Sheriff Rick Woodyard appeared before commissioners on Monday to discuss the possibilities drones could bring to local law enforcement as he has been in contact with the BRINC company who produces drones. “Some of the stuff that we thought was science fiction is starting to come to life for us,” Woodyard said. “Some of the newer drone...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - One Nebraska-based company used their drone to clean the stories high windows of Pinnacle Bank Arena. Though the job has always been done by arena staff, Vertex Drone Washing Solutions spend around 10 hours Sunday night and Monday morning making the building glisten. The Kearney-based business hooked a hose up to their drone, spraying eight gallons of water per minute as they flew from pane to pane touching up PBA’s hardest to reach places. “It’s a little bit more challenging to reach the top half sometimes,”...

The skies above Cummings Beach in Stamford, Conn. were aglow Sunday, July 7, 2024 as fireworks were launched from a barge on the water to celebrate Independence Day. The skies above Cummings Beach in Stamford, Conn. were aglow Sunday, July 7, 2024 as fireworks were launched from a barge on the water to celebrate Independence Day. Stamford residents crowd Cummings Beach in Stamford, Conn. on Sunday, July 7, 2024 waiting for the fireworks to be launched from a barge on the water to celebrate Independence Day. Stamford residents crowd Cummings...

Business owners, employees, students and general members of the public are learning to fly drones for personal and professional use through a new course at Nebraska Innovation Studio. The first students took flight this week in the prep course that is meant to prepare them for the Federal Aviation Administration Aeronautical Knowledge Test. “We're about a year in and we've developed a few courses and now we're planning to drive these courses more and to keep building some more offerings as well in the next couple of years,” said Travis...