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A 47-year-old man charged with 9-year-old Charlotte Sena at an upstate New York park has been identified by authorities. A 47-year-old man charged with kidnapping 9-year- old Charlotte Sena at an up state New York park and allegedly holding her in the cabinet of a camper he lived in next to his mother's home has been identified by authorities. Craig N. Ross Jr. is being held without bail Tuesday morning at the Saratoga County Correctional Facility on a charge of first-degree kidnapping, according to jail officials. Charlotte was abducted from the Moreau Lake State Park in Saratoga County, New York, on Saturday evening, according to New York State Police. She disappeared around dinnertime on Saturday, while out riding her bike in the campground alone, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said. The girl's family and other campers went looking for her, and her mother found her bike around 6:45 p.m. Saturday and called 911, police said. An Amber Alert was issued for the missing child Sat...

Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Thursday that she says will make Massachusetts the first state to ban the purchase of single-use plastic bottles by state agencies BOSTON -- Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Thursday that she says will make Massachusetts the first state to ban the purchase of single- use plastic bottles by state agencies . Massachusetts buys about 100,000 of the plastic water bottles each year. The order bars all executive offices and agencies in Massachusetts from purchasing any single-use plastic bottles under 21 fluid ounces except in cases of emergency. Healey, a Democrat, said the executive order takes effect immediately. Healey also signed a second executive order that she said will set state biodiversity conservation goals for 2030, 2040, and 2050 — and develop strategies to meet those targets. She said protections will be among the first to extend to coastal and marine habitats. “Massachusetts has a long history of being first in the n...

Carlee Russell, who told police she was kidnapped after she went missing, was arrested and charged with two misdemeanors for making false statements to police. Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who told police she was kidnapped after she went missing for two days, was arrested on Friday and charged with two misdemeanors for making false statements to police, Hoover Police Department Chief Nicholas Derzis announced during a press conference on Friday. "The story open wounds for families whose loved ones really were victims of kidnappings," Derzis said. He added that he shares in the "frustration" that Russell was only charge d with misdemeanors and said that he is calling on state legislators to add an "enhancement" to the law "when somebody false ly reports kidnapping or another violent crime." "Existing laws only allowed the charges that were filed to be filed," he said. Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who told police she was kidnap...

Lt. Col. George Bivens said he's never witnessed a gunfight more intense than one over the weekend with a suspect who allegedly killed a trooper and wounded another. In his nearly 40 years as a member of the Pennsylvania State Police, Lt. Col. George Bivens said he's never witnessed a gunfight more intense than the one that erupted over the weekend with a suspect alleged to have ambushed and killed one trooper and critically wounded another. "What I witnessed .... was one of the most intense, unbelievable gunfights I have ever witnessed," Bivens said at a news conference on Sunday. The suspect, 38-year-old Brandon Stine, was fatally shot by police in the gunbattle on Saturday in which Bivens said "hundreds of rounds" were fired. State Police Commissioner Christopher L. Paris said Stine was armed with a high-powered .458 magnum rifle, which he said is normally used by large Game hunters. "This was as harrowing as it gets," Paris said of the gunfig...

Today, perhaps, only a few scientists believe that Earth is the only place in the Universe where life in all its diversity exists. Astronomers regularly discover potentially habitable or at least habitable exoplanets, but humanity still has no evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial life. A study carried out within the framework of the SETI project (search for extraterrestrial life) shows that the probability of the existence of highly developed extraterrestrial civilizations is extremely high, but we cannot make contact with them due to the fact that they are experiencing, for example, climate change . On distant exoplanets, as well as on Earth, seasons also change, weather conditions are transformed, and, most likely, not for the better. Probably, extraterrestrial civilizations found themselves in a situation where their planets became practically unsuitable for ordinary life. To survive a difficult and life-threatening period, progressive ali...