Eye on the sky
Over the course of the day Tuesday, we had a mini-helicopter crash in a marsh, a small plane crash-land at a rail-yard, and a spacecraft reportedly make a big sonic boom as it streaked toward the Gulf.
Fortunately, there were no reports of injuries in any of the incidents.
The spacecraft’s fall from way, way above was planned. SpaceX confirmed its Dragon splashed down off the Florida Panhandle.
In the morning, a two-person gyrocopter took a tumble as it came down in a Dauphin Island marsh. In the evening, a small plane crash-landed in a Birmingham rail yard.
Women’s sports and gender identity
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed into law a measure that prohibits those born biologically male from playing women’s college sports in the state, whether or not they identify as transgender, reports The Associated Press.
This is an expansion of a law passed last year that limited K-12 girls sports to those who were born a biological female.
Should there be practice for target practice?
Four people who the Cherokee County sheriff says were target practicing in a wooded area are under arrest after a 94-year-old woman was shot, reports AL.com’s Carol Robinson.
Sheriff Jeff Shaver said the woman was in a home across a cove from the shooters. The round entered the home through a window and struck the woman. She was taken to a hospital and is expected to recover.
The four suspects, two from Indiana and two from South Carolina, have been charged with second-degree assault.We don’t want to get bogged down in complicated physics properties here, but it’s pretty simple.
Sheriff Shaver: “People just don’t think. Make sure if you’re going to target practice, you have a proper backstop or you could have unintended consequences.”
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