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Two Injured as Southwest Airlines Flight Dives to Avert ‘Midair Collision’
A Southwest Airlines flight on Friday was forced to swiftly descend over Hollywood Burbank Airport to avert a “midair collision,” according to passengers and the airline.
At least two flight attendants were injured in the maneuver on Flight 1496, which was bound for Las Vegas.
Flight passenger Steve Ulasewicz described feeling a “significant drop,” adding the pilot told the rattled flyers that the crew had to pull off the emergency move to “avoid a midair collision,” ABC News reported.
Southwest Airlines told Newsweek that the flight was forced to “climb and descend” over Burbank after receiving two “onboard traffic alerts.”
Why It Matters
The near miss is the latest in a series of global aviation incidents that have reignited debate over air traffic oversight, pilot training and reliance on automated warning systems.
On Monday, a plane landing in Mexico City almost crashed into a Delta Air Lines flight at Benito Juarez International Airport.
On January 29, a commercial jetliner and Army helicopter collided in Washington, D.C., killing 67 people. Two days later, a medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia, killing all six people onboard and one person on the ground.
The deadly January crashes led President Donald Trump to announce plans to revamp the nation’s aging aviation safety infrastructure.
What To Know
Passenger and comedian Jimmy Dore said many onboard had been flung out of their seats and had “bumped their heads on the ceiling.”
After the sudden descent, the pilot informed passengers that the maneuver was ordered to avoid another aircraft, and that there had been a temporary loss of contact with air traffic control.
“Pilot said his collision warning went off & he needed to avoid plane coming at us,” Dore added in a post on X. “Wow.”
Caitlin Burdi, a fellow passenger, described the “terrifying” moment the flight suddenly plummeted.
“It felt like the ride Tower of Terror, where we fell 20 to 30 feet,” she told Fox News Digital. “I just remember [the pilot] saying, ‘What just happened was we almost collided with another plane, and I had to make the emergency attempt to go under because we lost service with the air traffic controller.’”
Southwest Airlines told Newsweek that no injuries had been reported by customers, although the two flight attendants were being medically treated.
The flight was able to continue to its destination of Las Vegas, where it landed “uneventfully.”
“Southwest is engaged with the Federal Aviation Administration [FAA] to further understand the circumstances,” an airline spokesperson said.
What People Are Saying
A Southwest Airlines spokesperson also told Newsweek: “We appreciate the professionalism of our Flight Crew and Flight Attendants in responding to this event. Nothing is more important to Southwest than the Safety of our Customers and Employees.”
Burdi also told Fox News Digital: “The screaming, it was terrifying. We really thought we were plummeting to a plane crash.”
A Hollywood Burbank Airport spokesperson told Newsweek:“There’s no evidence of any incident similar to what you’re describing happening in the immediate vicinity of our airport.”
What Happens Next
Southwest and FAA officials have launched an investigation into the cause and sequence of events that led to the emergency maneuver. They’re reviewing air traffic control communications, radar data and cockpit recordings. The ongoing probes will focus on determining whether procedural lapses or technical issues contributed to the risk of collision.
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The prices given are those indicated by state tax stamps required on all deeds. The addresses listed are those given for tax purposes. Because a tax bill may be sent to a business office or other location different from the property being transferred, some of the addresses listed may differ from the property that was transferred. Includes property square footage and date purchased.
Here are property transfers in Jefferson, Bullitt and Oldham counties, Kentucky from Oct. 20-26, 2025.
Jefferson County
40059
9407 CIVIC WAY, BROWN DAVID RYAN to HARRIS DYLAN | 2,641 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $640,000
7511 SMITHFIELD GREENE LN, POORKAY MEHDI to FLEITZ MARTHA JEANA | 3,200 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $610,000
5612 WOLF PEN TRCE, LAUER WATSON KATARINA to CHAN ABIGAIL SY | 4,976 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $835,000
5622 TIMBER CREEK CT, TORRES IRICH J to HUGHES THERESE SUSAN | 1,653 sq ft | 10/22/2025 | $350,000
7808 GRENOBLE LN, BERNARD G ALAN to BENCH SUE | 3,732 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $515,000
40118
10713 ALBERTA DR, TATE JEFFREY L to SNYDER EBONI D | 1,200 sq ft | 10/22/2025 | $245,000
2107 SMITH RD, AUBREY DEVIN SCOTT to MCCOY BRITTANY D | 2,880 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $390,000
40203
1909 GRIFFITHS AVE, TRINH RENTAL to NGUYEN DANG LIVING TRUST | 2,059 sq ft | 10/22/2025 | $60,000
40205
2539 WOODCREEK RD, CODISPOTI JOSEPH to BRINK DAVID AARON JR | 2,687 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $499,000
40206
2804 BEXLEY CT, CHARLES SHEILA M to LOCKWOOD CRHISTOPHER J | 1,602 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $167,500
443 UNIVERSITY AVE, DONALDSON THOMAS REEDER to DUELL JOHN SCOTT | 2,472 sq ft | 10/22/2025 | $469,000
40207
5307 INDIAN CREST RD, DEGOLIAN ROBERT R to COLLINS CHRISTINA MARIE | 5,280 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $625,000
5 WOODHILL RD, AUSTIN R THOMPSON to WOODHILL | 8,153 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $4,000,000
418 CHERRYWOOD RD, REINERT ROBERTA J to BRIZENDINE TODD | 3,203 sq ft | 10/22/2025 | $408,310
40208
2935 S 3RD ST, CARMONA PROPERTIES LOUISVILLE to MOORE AUSTIN | 2,768 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $337,000
40211
923 S 40TH ST, PROPERTIES DC to VANGUARD ENTERPRISES CORP | 2,246 sq ft | 10/22/2025 | $68,000
40213
4401 CAMPOBELLO ST, HESTER BARBARA A to WALDRIDGE TERESA GAIL | 960 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $165,000
40214
4127 S 2ND ST, MESO HOMES INVESTMENTS to FOLKINS KATHERINE MARIE ROSELLE | 3,375 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $250,000
9714 SECRETARIAT DR, THREE DS DEVELOPMENT to PADGETT BRENT MICHAEL | 3,916 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $64,000
5427 SOUTHVIEW DR, PROPERTY PRIME to QUEVEDO BEATRIZ MARTINEZ | 1,389 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $239,900
40215
1104 OLEANDA AVE, VENIA to THOMAS DAVID L | 720 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $130,000
920 STANLEY AVE, NUMBER CRUNCHERS to BOCALANDRO MICHAEL L RAMOS | 1,092 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $190,000
40216
5603 ARVIS DR, LEISTER ANDREW A to NEWKIRK LARRY W | 2,050 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $245,000
4603 MELVIN DR, WELLS JUANITA to ORTIZ YAIDELIN HERNANDEZ | 2,100 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $237,000
1580 SADIE LN, FRANCO REDIFREDO to TAMAYO LUIS RIVERA | 1,107 sq ft | 10/22/2025 | $203,000
3000 ROCKAWAY DR, GEAN JOHNNY BRYANT ESTATE to AL SHATHER MOE R | 2,100 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $150,000
40218
3516 LISBON LN, THOROUGHBRED AQUISITIONS to GILPATRICK CHRISTOPHER | 925 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $230,000
5435 BANNON CROSSINGS DR, GREEN KAREN J R to BAKHODIR ALIYEV | 1,700 sq ft | 10/22/2025 | $250,000
40219
4800 FAMOUS WAY, SINCHURI JAMUNA to SUBEDI MITRA LAL | 2,726 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $270,000
7915 JUDGE BLVD, SERRANO FRANK SAMPEDRO to MORFA YUCIMIN CASAS | 2,134 sq ft | 10/22/2025 | $250,000
40220
6129 ARLONE CT, DIAZ GEILER LLOPIZ to PADRON LEODEL MIRANDA | 1,125 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $245,000
3008 BOAIRES LN, JONES LINDA LEE M to GEHLHAUSEN TIMOTHY LOUIS | 1,134 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $225,000
3014 TALISMAN RD, BARRETT CLAY to VEGA ALEXANDER | 2,508 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $290,000
40222
1714 ORMSBY LN, MARY ELIZABETH ATHERTON LIVING TRUST to CORLEY BRIAN | 2,700 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $290,000
40223
2600 ANCHOR WAY, COLLINS CHRISTINA M to BROWN DAVID RYAN | 4,980 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $1,050,000
40241
2942 GOOSE CREEK RD, BROWN CATHLEEN G to SEGUNDINO SHARON | 3,038 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $345,000
7611 BEECHSPRING FARM BLVD, OWEN DAVID HAYS to KASDAN MORTON L | 7,884 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $1,240,000
4412 SUSSEX CT, HAEFFELE WAYNE A to MARTINEZ RAFAEL MORALES | 2,238 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $240,000
9206 FELSMERE CIR, DEVON BANK to DAFALLA SHAZA BASBAR | 3,615 sq ft | 10/22/2025 | $530,000
7010 CREEKTON DR, PATEL KETAN to KULKARNI YOGESH S | 4,977 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $860,000
4708 SUNNY MEADOW CT, CORNETT JOHN WALLACE JR to HILL CONNOR DALE | 1,256 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $328,600
40245
2911 MEADOW FARMS PL, HAYDEN RICHARD L to HAYDEN RICHARD L | 4,832 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $789,000
13815 FOREST BEND CIR, JEWELL MELISSA A to WILHOIT JEFFREY | 2,904 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $415,000
115 WATERSTONE WAY, CHEATHAM STEPHEN D to MATTHEWS STANLEY | 4,240 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $645,000
40291
9218 WELLINGTON HILL CT, PEARSON PAULA to KHAREL GOPI LAL | 4,013 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $415,900
8313 FAIRMOUNT RD, PULTE HOMES OF OHIO to GANBAATAR GANTULGA | 3,028 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | 10/21/2025 | $407,990
13317 CAIN LN, HILLNER GREGORY P to DUNCAN DAVID | 4,124 sq ft | 10/22/2025 | $420,000
115 WATERSTONE WAY, CHEATHAM STEPHEN D to MATTHEWS STANLEY | 4,240 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $645,000
40299
3417 ETHELWOOD DR, FOR SALE REAL ESTATE to BENCOMO PROPERTIES | 1,406 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $173,000
Bullitt County
40047
163 HERITAGE WAY, GEPHART GERARD ANTHONY & SUSAN DARLENE to GEPHART GERARD ANTHONY & SUSAN DARLENE | 3,618 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $440,000
460 RIVER CLIFF DR, CHAPMAN MICHAEL TODD to GRIDER JAMES L JR | 1,410 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $385,000
405 LINCOLN DR, SMITH JERID R to JERID R SMITH LIVING TRUST | 1,296 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $310,000
966 ALPAR LN, BOURBON TRAIL HOMES to COOMES KAREN & CALVIN & MCGRATH NICOLE & AARON | 2,42 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $220,000
392 WINCHESTER DR, ELDER JOHN T to GIBSON KELLI L & SAMUEL R | 1,100 q ft | 10/22/2025 | $210,000
218 LAKEWOOD DR, VICKERY GEOFFREY & PAULETTE to VICKERY FAMILY IRREVOCABLE TRUST | 3,388 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $320,000
589 FLATLICK RD, OWEN ELIZABETH to GATROST THEODORE J & ATROST THEODORE JR & TRICIA | 1,115 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $175,000
234 LONDON SQUARE, EMPIRE PROPERTIES 1332 to SEBATWARE ERIC & NYAMAHORO NYAGANZA | 2,227 sq ft| 10/24/2025 | $444,800
153 ELDER GLEN CT, PAYNE DAVID A & JANICE K to PAYNE FAMILY TRUST | 1,975 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $355,000
688 TWIN OAKS DR, LENTZ CHARLES JOSEPH to LENTZ FAMILY TRUST | 3,008 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $225,316
40109
2337 CORAL RIDGE RD, CAHILL ROSETTA & CAHILL LARRY E JR to CAHILL ROSETTA | 2,986 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $187,919
1271 CABIN CREEK DR, OWEN-RUMMAGE LINDA L & RUMMAGE ANTHONY K to ANTHONY & LINDA RUMMAGE LIVING TRUST | 1,834 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $251,748
40150
151 DIANE CT, CDF BUILDERS INC to KREBS SHELBY R | 1,345 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $294,569
3427 HORSEFLY HOLLOW RD, MAUERMANN KAREN ANN to KAM CAPITAL ENTERPRISE | 816 sq ft | 10/22/2025 | $91,900
40165
468 WINDING CREEK DR, FUGATE ELEANOR L to REEDY AARON J & ADRIANNE R | 3,880 sq ft |10/21/2025 | $480,000
358 WESTSIDE DR, MAY BRANDON S to CHAPMAN MICHAEL T & KRISTEN L | 2,025 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $385,000
227 PRYOR VALLEY RD, HODGES ROBERT GARY & MATSON TIARRA B to HODGES ROBERT GARY & MATSON TIARRA B | 1,150 sq ft |10/21/2025 | $100,980
225 PRYOR VALLEY RD, HODGES ROBERT GARY & MATSON TIARRA B to HODGES ROBERT GARY & MATSON TIARRA B | 1,000 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $70,000
127 DAYFLOWER CT, FISCHER HOMES LOUISVILLE to HERZOG HEATHER A & MCGAUGH DUSTY L | 2,852 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $439,990
232 VILLA LN, ALEXANDER KATHY L to KATHY ALEXANDER REVOCABLE TRUST | 1,009 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $140,035
193 PARE CT, DYER THOMAS & PAULA to STEPHENSON ROBERT L & DANA S | 3,268 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $540,000
126 LAKES EDGE DR, LONNY RAY CONSTRUCTION INC to HAGER SIERRA & KEETON CODY | 1,203 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $258,000
177 WHITE RUN RD, SETACCIOLI PROPERTIES to BUCKNER KYLE WILSON & CELESTE NICOLE | 1,701 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $122,000
40229
12205 DULCIE CT, THRELKEL BRIAN to BEST KELLY B | 1,208 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $239,000
Oldham County
40014
6105 BRENTWOOD DR, TJM CUSTOM HOMES to SCEARCE EMILY H | 2,342 sq ft | 10/22/2025 | $795,000
5314 BROOKSWOOD RD, SCHUMM CHRISTOPHER L & HERNANDEZ NID to ONSUM KEITH WALTER & RACHEL YESENIA | 2,216 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $595,000
7492 EDITH WAY, GONDA STEPHEN & LORA to STEPHEN & LORA GONDA LIVING TRUST | 2,998 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $1,053,300
7414 KAVANAUGH RD, OLIVER KEVIN DRUE to MCBROOM JOSHUA DYLAN & SARAH ALINE | 1,741 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $325,000
5311 LEE AVE, RL HOME SERVICES INC to CABADA-SAMORA JESUS | 1,462 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $565,000
7110 AUTUMN BENT WAY, CORBIN TROY G to KREY NICOLAS T & KRISTA A | 2,004 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $459,900
40026
13120 POND CREEK DR, POND CREEK SEC 4 to MERRICK BRYANT JOSEPH & KEELEY LYNN | 2,253 sq ft | 10/21/2025 | $590,000
3343 N BUCKEYE LN, WISE JOHN P to BISIG GREGORY & CAROL SUE | 3,408 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $840,000
40031
2826 ALDER WOOD LN, KEY HOMES to BUONFIGLIO JOSEPH II & SAMANTHA CRAIG | 1,991 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $550,000
3617 RED OAK DR, GONDA STEPHEN & LORA to PERLIK LYNNE NICOLE & VINCENT ROBERT | 3,303 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $960,000
706 LATIMER AVE, WILSON DAVID & NORMA J to COLLINS MATTHEW RYAN & SHELBI NICOLE | 1,351 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $205,000
40056
6904 JESSICA CT, WHITE ALL & BREDA MICHAEL R to RUTLEDGE CAROLYN L | 1,050 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $250,000
40059
11572 VICTORIA FALLS LN, CLAYTON PROPERTIES GROUP INC to BLUEGRASS LIVING TRUST | 2,636 sq ft | 10/23/2025 | $925,377
2713 MAYO LN, DONNA BRIGHT REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST to PARKER FAMILY TRUST | 5,796 sq ft | 10/24/2025 | $1,576,550
40068
4208 BALLARD RIDGE CT, CD LLC to CHEATHAM STEPHEN DARRELL | 2,500 sq ft | 10/20/2025 | $774,900
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This week on Behind The Lens, the public gets a rare look inside one of the most powerful and least understood parts of Louisiana’s criminal justice system: the parole process.
In Louisiana, Parole Board hearings are sometimes held in public, offering families, victims, attorneys, advocates, and reporters an opportunity to witness how decisions are made about who is granted freedom and who remains incarcerated. But those hearings reveal more than individual cases. They expose the broader tensions shaping punishment, rehabilitation, public safety, and political pressure across the state.
Reporters Bernard Smith and Gus Bennett join editor Katy Reckdahl to examine how parole decisions are influenced not only by testimony inside the hearing room, but also by a growing wave of legal and political changes moving through Louisiana’s courts and legislature. From rulings connected to the Louisiana Supreme Court to election season politics and criminal justice reforms, the episode explores how policy decisions made at the highest levels can directly affect incarcerated people, victims’ families, prosecutors, and entire communities.
The discussion also breaks down how recent state actions involving sentencing, parole eligibility, election dynamics, and judicial oversight are reshaping Louisiana’s criminal justice landscape in real time. Together, the team examines the human consequences behind those decisions and what they reveal about accountability, power, and transparency inside the system.
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As paleontologist Stephen Godfrey walked into the Calvert Marine Museum one morning in April, staff members congratulated him. In a way, he brought an extinct species back to life.
Two days earlier, in the final hours of Maryland’s legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill that made megalodon — the largest shark that ever lived — the state shark.
Godfrey, the marine museum’s curator of paleontology, helped come up with the idea and testified at the State House in support of it. Now, Maryland is the first to have a state shark, he said.
“As long as people have been here in Maryland, they have been noticing and collecting megalodon teeth,” he said.
Fossils of the prehistoric shark can be found throughout the Chesapeake Bay region.
“It was a prime place for early paleontologists in American history to come to collect fossils, to document the succession of life,” said Godfrey, who grew up in Quebec, Canada. He has been interested in natural history since he was young and turned his childhood bedroom into a museum.
“Hey, why don’t we try to make it the state shark?” Godfrey recalled asking.
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He checked whether any other state had beat them to the idea. He found that North Carolina designated the megalodon tooth as its state fossil — but not its state shark.
“It was like, ‘Wow, this is like a golden opportunity,’ ” he said. “I’m surprised that nobody has thought of this.”
So he reached out to Marianne Harms, a former member of the marine museum’s board who had helped get it recognized as the state’s paleontology center. She connected him with Sen. Jack Bailey, R-Calvert and St. Mary’s.
“We just started working on it last summer when I took Stephen in to meet Sen. Bailey, and it is a difficult process to have something named as a state entity,” Harms said.
Bailey introduced the bill in the Senate, and Del. Todd Morgan, R-Calvert and St. Mary’s, introduced it in the House.
Godfrey testified in support of the bill twice, bringing along his daughter, Zoey, who is in third grade.
Calvert County officials and members of the public also wrote letters of support. Representatives of the Natural History Society of Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation sent in written testimony favoring the bill.
Fourth-grade teacher Anna Shay also shared letters and pictures from her students.
“The megalodon shark is strong and brave so people will think we are also strong and brave,” one student wrote.
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It faced some pushback from AMndy Ellis, a Green Party candidate for governor, who wanted to designate megalodon as the state historic shark to leave room for a living one to have that designation.
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“I can’t believe this actually happened,” said Godfrey, adding that he thought the bill had died.
“To me, it’s like, just one of the super fun things that I’ve been a part of.”
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