Author: Gloria Irabor

The cause of the helicopter accident was attributed to pilot negligence. Jeff Brown, a veteran airplane pilot, had little experience operating a helicopter in inclement weather. In 1995 Jimmie and his mother Martha Vaughan sued Omniflight for negligence. They claimed that pilot Jeff Brown operated the helicopter recklessly under visual flight rules (VFR) while in…

Stevie Ray Vaughan was an American musician and producer who had a net worth equal to $8 million dollars at the time of his death (after adjusting for inflation). Stevie Ray Vaughan was best known as the frontman and guitarist of the blues rock band Double Trouble. Despite his short career, he is considered to…

The movie, Greyhound, will stream exclusively on AppleTV+. The war movie “Masters of the Air,” the third installment of the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks-led trilogy that includes “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific,” has officially begun filming. Fukunaga, the Emmy award-winning director behind the masterful first season of HBO’s “True Detective,” is signed on…

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks set Wilson on the mound as he prepared to deliver the ceremonial throw to Larry Doby Jr., whose father was the first Black player in the American League. But Wilson had other ideas. Wilson rolled off the mound and across the infield before cruising in front of Hanks as he wound…

Before her death, popular NBC presenter, Wendy Rieger, was married to retired WRC-TV news photographer Dan Buckley. The couple got married in 2021. Her first marriage, to Sol Levine, a CNN producer, ended in divorce. Rieger was born in Norfolk on April 18, 1956. Her father was an airline pilot, and her mother was an…

American actor and film maker, Tom Hanks is a Christian. His family religious history was Catholic and Mormon. One journalist characterized Hanks’s teenage self as being a “Bible-toting evangelical” for several years. In school, he was unpopular with students and teachers alike, later telling Rolling Stone magazine, “I was a geek, a spaz. I was…

Wendy Rieger, who co-anchored the popular 5 p.m. newscast on Washington’s NBC station WRC-TV (Channel 4) for more than 30 years, died of brain cancer died on April 16, 2022. She was 65. Rieger won a loyal audience with her good-humored and well-crafted reports, at a hospice facility in Montgomery County. A fixture of broadcast…