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Fiery Crash of Navy Jet Spares All

Five of the six injured people were reportedly released from the hospital before 6:00 p.m. before local time.

(VIRGINIA BEACH) - A U.S. Navy FA/18-D jet crashed into an apartment building in Virginia Beach today, just after take-off. Amazingly, according to reports, nobody died in the violent crash, however six people in the low-rise apartment complex were injured and transported from the scene.

The scene was described as a a massive inferno as the video clearly shows. The two naval aviators aboard the plane both survived.

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Files Brief in Support of Constitutionality of Health Care Reform

Other states joining California in this brief are Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Maryland, New York, Oregon and Vermont.

(SACRAMENTO) - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit strongly asserting the legality of federal health care reform and urging the court to uphold the law.

"The law strikes an appropriate - and constitutional - balance between national requirements that will expand access to affordable healthcare while providing States with flexibility to design programs that achieve that goal for their citizens," the amicus brief states.

Cruise Ship Runs Aground in Virginia

(PORTSMOUTH, Va.) - The Coast Guard is responding to a cruise ship that ran aground this morning after taking on water in the Intercoastal Waterway near the Pungo region of Virginia Beach, Virginia.