HATTIESBURG, miss. – A small plane crashed into a Mississippi home, killing one of the home’s four residents and three Texas residents who were flying to a university graduation ceremony, authorities said Wednesday. Gerry Standley, 55, was a resident of the house where the plane crashed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Also killed were the pilot, 67-year-old … Read more
The US Department of Homeland Security is investigating after more than 90 people were found in a house in southwest Houston that police called people smuggling. Deputy Police Commissioner Daryn Edwards said the police received a kidnapping call Thursday night and the homicide division worked all night to enter the house with a tactical team. … Read more
Vera Kutsenko and Hayley Leibson have incredible engineering pedigrees, but their latest endeavor is digging as much dirt as digging through lines of code. The two women founded Neverland, a home gardening startup that aims to be a marketplace that connects mom and pop stores to the explosion of amateur horticulturists that have sprung up … Read more
New location of the startup: Mental Health Match, a startup helping people find the right therapist, has moved from Houston to Portland, Ore. The platform: Mental Health Match uses an online matching tool to guide users through choosing a therapist. More information on potential supervisors will be provided when they are identified as a match. … Read more
(CNN) – Amazon has it all. We trust that we will find what we are looking for. But when we think about the basics for the home, Amazon may not be the first place we’d look. But let’s change that because the retailer has a huge range of furniture, decorating and organizing products that you … Read more
The Apple Watch on your wrist can, in the right circumstances, serve as an important medical monitoring tool. According to MyHealthyApple and MacRumors, Apple-funded Stanford researchers found that the Apple Watch can accurately measure the frailty (or rather the distance covered in a six-minute walk) of patients with cardiovascular disease at home. According to Stanford’s … Read more
ACWORTH, Georgia – There is a bullet hole in the wall of Rita Barron’s clothing store in a five-storey mall. And four people in the shop next door were fatally shot on Tuesday. “I’m sad for everyone because I knew them all,” said Barron. She was working with her husband in their shop, Gabby’s Boutique, … Read more
With the plug-and-play light switches from Deako, builders and homeowners can easily exchange remote-controlled high-tech lighting. (Deako photo) New financing: Seattle-based startup Deako Lighting raised $ 12.5 million in a Series B round to help grow the company’s smart light switch technology. The business: With the plug-and-play light switches from Deako, builders and homeowners can … Read more
(CNN) – Many people believe that before buying a home they need to have 20% of the purchase price in cash to use as a down payment. This can make home ownership seem overwhelming, as even buying a small property at a cost of $ 80,000 means having to have $ 16,000 on hand in … Read more
State health officials learned from the data that significant numbers of residents died after being rushed to hospitals. The State Health Commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, had already known in June that officials in his department believed the data was good enough to be included in the report, said two people with knowledge of the discussions. … Read more