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Orange sheriff: No active shooter after fight, ‘popping’ sounds at Magic Kingdom spark chaos
A fight and “popping” sounds incited a panic Thursday night at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, leading to since-dispelled rumors of an active shooter at the theme park.
Calls about an apparent shooter began before 10 p.m. as the park was beginning to close.
According to the incident report released Friday by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, calls were coming from different locations close to the park entrance, particularly City Hall, the bus stop, the Town Square and the monorail. However, none of the callers said they actually saw a weapon and no gunshot wounds were reported.
Deputies canvassing the Main Street plaza and checking nearby stores found no shell casings or evidence of a bullet striking any park buildings and no witnesses reported seeing anyone having been shot. The popping noises are believed to have come from balloons, which the report said was noticed by deputies interacting with visitors leaving the park.
The pops are believed to have happened just as a fight broke out near the monorail, which deputies reported had “no indications of firearms involved.” The only reported injury handled by the Sheriff’s Office was of “one of the people involved in the original fight,” an agency spokesperson said Friday. No other injuries were reported.
GM delays additional $330M investment in Thacker Pass, Lithium Americas says
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NASA lines up return date for Boeing Starliner minus humans
A Butch- and Suni-less Boeing Starliner has been given a date to return to Earth by NASA.
Teams with NASA and Boeing gave the green light to undock what will be the uncrewed spacecraft from the International Space Station as early as Sept. 6 at 6:04 p.m., leaving behind NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who flew up on board Starliner when it launched from Cape Canaveral on June 5.
The duo arrived to the ISS a day later, but because of thruster issues and helium leaks on Starliner’s propulsion module, NASA opted to play it safe and keep the astronauts on board the station to await a rescue ride home from Boeing’s competitor SpaceX.
If weather is clear for the landing site, Starliner will autonomously undock from the ISS, something it was able to do back in 2022 during the second of its two uncrewed test flights. It then faces a six-hour flight back to Earth with a desert landing target of White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico at 12:03 a.m. Sept. 7. After the parachute and air-cushioned landing, it will be shipped back to Boeing’s Starliner factory at Kennedy Space Center.