AOL News Team - Dana Chivvis

Dana Chivvis

Contributor

Dana is a writer and multimedia journalist who previously worked at The National Geographic Society. She has a master’s from Columbia Journalism School.

Latest Post FAA Seminar Draws Wrong Kind of Attention

View All Posts

Contact

Nightmare LA-to-NY Flight Turns Into 16-Hour Ordeal

posted: 2 days 17 hours ago

(March 16) -- Passengers on a Virgin America flight from Los Angeles to JFK airport in New York were delayed on a tarmac at an airport 80 miles away for nearly seven hours last weekend while the airl ...

Full Story »

Yaaarrrrrr(n)! Sweater Pirates Hit NJ Town

posted: 4 days 16 hours ago

(March 15) -- West Cape May, N.J., has a mysterious stitch in its side. Someone has been knitting sweaters for the town's trees, lampposts and pay phones anonymously at night, giving the appearance t ...

Full Story »

Music Video Director Accused of Raping Daughters

posted: 6 days 13 hours ago

(March 12) -- A New Jersey man accused of raping and impregnating his daughters to produce "pure-blooded" offspring directed the music video of the 1996 Fugees hit "Killing Me Softly." Aswad Ayinde, ...

Full Story »

At Ground Zero, a Battle's Decisive Moment

posted: 7 days 14 hours ago

NEW YORK (March 11) -- A longstanding battle that has stymied construction at the site of the World Trade Center comes to a head this week. Barring a last-minute deal, arbitrators are set to impose a ...

Full Story »

Draft of National Education Standards Released

posted: 8 days 13 hours ago

(March 10) -- A group of educators released today the first draft of a proposed set of national core standards for children in kindergarten through 12th grade. The call for national standards is supp ...

Full Story »

Artist Helps New York 'Lego' of its Crumbling Buildings

posted: 5 days 11 hours ago

(March 13) -- German artist Jan Vormann may have New Yorkers reconsidering the structural integrity of a Lego. Vormann, 26, spent two weeks in February repairing some of the city's dilapidated walls ...

Full Story »

PETA's Euthanasia Rates Have Critics Fuming

posted: 9 days 15 hours ago

(March 9) -- When Dawn Brancheau, a SeaWorld trainer, was killed last month by one of the park's orcas, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was quick to condemn SeaWorld for keeping its anima ...

Full Story »

Paterson's Mess Scrambles New York's State of Mind

posted: 9 days 17 hours ago

(March 9) -- He's swimming in scandal and is wildly unpopular, but New York Gov. David Paterson refuses to resign and 68 percent of New Yorkers want him to stay, even though the majority doesn't thin ...

Full Story »

Scandals Break (and Break and Break) in New York

posted: 15 days 12 hours ago

NEW YORK (March 3) -- Political scandals are piling up at an astonishing pace in New York, even by the standards of a state distinguished for dysfunction. Within just a few hours today, three scandal ...

Full Story »

Northeast Blizzard Causes Widespread Power Outages

posted: 20 days 21 hours ago

NEW YORK (Feb. 26) -- From Washington to Maine, it's no Snowmageddon, but a massive storm is slowly moving along the East Coast, hitting New York, northern New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania especia ...

Full Story »

12345»Last