Nearly 300 passengers on board two international flights heading to Atlanta on Thursday were stuck for hours on an Alabama tarmac after their flights were diverted, amid severe weather, to a small airport without Customs and Border Protection staffing.

Passengers then sat on the tarmac, unable to get off the plane for hours since the flight was coming from an international location and there was no Customs and Border Protection staffing at that airport,

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a disappointment in the ongoing quest for animal-to-human transplants.

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal.