Luke Air force base Shooting

Luke Air Force Base is on high alert after two men who crashed through the front gate late Monday night in a stolen car were shot, killing one and wounding the other, according to base officials.

Base spokesman Capt. Jerry Gonzalez said the pair allegedly stole a car and attempted to flee from authorities. Gonzalez said base security forces set up a roadblock. As the driver tried to run it, security officers fearing for their safety opened fire.

Luke Air Force Base is located in Glendale, Ariz., outside Phoenix, and is used to train pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets.

In the meantime a report says that a person who was riding a stolen car was killed and another injured when they didn’t stop at a security check point in Luke Air Force Base. A report says that “The car went through the entrance without stopping as required and security forces then used a vehicle to set up a roadblock on a bridge leading to the operational side of the base, near Glendale, Capt. Jerry Gonzalez, a spokesman for the base, told msnbc.com”.

Wise Launch,Wise Telescope

TrendPK.com Wise Launch,Wise Telescope:A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket (Delta 347) has launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base this morning carrying the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite for NASA. The launch occured at the start of a fourteen minute window, which opened at 6:09am Pacific (14:09 GMT).The Wide Field [...]

World’s oldest person, a woman dies in California at 115

World’s oldest person, a woman dies in California at 115, LOS ANGELES : The world’s oldest person, a woman who was born in 1894 and gained a measure of fame when she voted for Barack Obama for U.S. president, died on Friday at the age of 115.

Gertrude Baines died peacefully in her sleep sometime between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. local time (1300 and 1400 GMT) at the Western Convalescent Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had spent the past decade of her life.

“She’s a very dignified lady,” Emma Camanag, the hospital’s administrator, told Reuters. “It has truly been a blessing and an honor for us to take care of her over the last 10 years and we will greatly miss her. It’s just like we lost a relative.”

Baines had no living relatives, Camanag said, but was popular at the home and at her church, where she attended services every Sunday until she became too ill to leave her room.

Camanag said parishioners at the church often visited Baines, who was born on April 6, 1894 in Shellman, Georgia, and became the world’s oldest person when 115-year-old Maria de Jesus of Portugal died in January.

Japan’s Kama Chien, 114, is now the oldest person in the world.

As a Black woman who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow laws, which required Blacks to use separate and often inferior public facilities, Baines was celebrated in the media when she voted last November for Obama, the first African American elected president of the United States.

She had only voted once previously, for John F. Kennedy, and told the Los Angeles Times at the time that she supported Obama “because he’s for the colored.” She kept a signed picture of Obama on her wall, the Times reported.

Baines, who was born during the administration of Grover Cleveland, married young and later divorced. Her only child, a daughter, was born in 1909 and died of typhoid at the age of 18.

She worked as a maid in Ohio before moving to Los Angeles and lived on her own until she was well over 100.

According to the Times, when Baines was asked by reporters her secret for living a long life, she would reply “Ask God.”

NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery Landed At Air Bas California

NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery Landed At Air Bas California, NASA’s space shuttle Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California at 5:53 pm local time (0053 GMT) on Friday.

The shuttle successfully made the steep descent — at an angle seven times more acute than a commercial jet — through thin cloud to runway 22 at the desert base.

Shortly after touchdown, NASA deployed teams of white-suited inspectors to scour the outside of the space craft to make sure it was undamaged and the astronauts could disembark safely.