The two-hour drama came to an end after the pilot made an emergency landing at Larnaca airport in Cyprus. Nathan Artibani got a crash course on what it takes to earn a driver's license. Police said he was testing for his license on Tuesday when he hit an oncoming car and sent two people to the hospital. Artibani didn't get his license. He did get a ticket for failure to yield the right of way and making an improper turn.
Jailers believe they've found the key to keeping inmates behind bars in Bristol County.
A body orifice scanner chair, a device designed to detect metal hidden inside a prisoner's body was purchased after inmate Dwayne Alves used a concealed handcuff key to escape from custody at a Fall River courthouse in February. Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson announced this week that the new machine had detected a metal object in an inmate. An X-ray later showed a key in the inmate's stomach. The chair, at the Dartmouth House of Correction, is one of few such devices operating in Massachusetts, The Standard-Times of New Bedford reported. The defendant was Air Europa pilot Jose Carlos Tuccio.