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  • The fatal crash occurred on the final day of the National Championship Air Races in Reno โ€” putting a tragic end to the decades-old racing tradition.
  • A judge threw out a suit against Fox News by a former Trump supporter who said he got death threats when the network aired false conspiracy theories about his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  • Marty talks with three young drug dealers from Camden, New Jersey. (Camden is across the river from Philadelphia and is considered one of the most violent cities in New Jersey; it also has a higher than average poverty rate for children. ) The three gang members go by aliases, Eddie Bauer, 16 years old, Kevin Madison, 20, and Sampson Riley, 18. They are members of the 6th & Ferry Gang.
  • An Aurora outdoor concert venue is reopening after being closed for more than a year. The ribbon cutting is June 18 at 6 p.m.
  • While job growth appears to have been slightly less than expected in March, the growth in February was revised upward. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate is unchanged at 6.7 percent.
  • When he was 6 years old, Tom Sinclair wandered away from his family's campsite on Lake Superior and got lost. At dawn, he heard a voice that has shaped his life ever since.
  • An experiment with 6-year-olds found they worked harder doing a repetitive task when they pretended to be Batman or Dora the Explorer.
  • A man in Japan wanted to make it into the Guinness book of world records. He considered trying to drink the most hot sauce, but settled on a spikier record. His hairdo โ€” a mohawk โ€” stands 3 feet, 8.6 inches high.
  • Filmmaker, DEBORAH HOFFMAN. She produced, directed and wrote the Oscar-nominated documentary, "Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter." In the documentary, which airs on PBS's "Point Of View" series June 6, HOFFMAN tells how she copes with her mother, Doris, now 87, who began suffering memory lapses in the early 1980s and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 1991.
  • San Francisco based Wells Fargo won its three-month effort to takeover another California based bank today. First Interstate agreed to be acquired in a stock transaction valued at $11.6 billion. If the deal is approved by regulators it will be the largest merger in U.S. banking history. The deal is expected to eliminate as many as 7,000 jobs, half of them in the Los Angeles area, as hundreds of First Intersate branches are closed.
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