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Over the past several weeks, there's been plenty of movement in the Bleacher Report NFL power rankings. But there hasn't been much at the top.

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Over the past several weeks, there's been plenty of movement in the Bleacher Report NFL power rankings. But there hasn't been much at the top.

However, from the first game of this week's slate, we knew that lucky Week 13 would be different.

Last week's No. 1 team lost. So did another team in the top five-to a three-win tomato can. Yet another top-five squad released a star player before taking the field in a division battle Sunday.

The pecking order in the NFL got quite the jolt in Week 13-from top to bottom.

As they have every week this season, Bleacher Report NFL analysts Brad Gagnon, Brent Sobleski and Gary Davenport have gathered to sift through the rubble of what we thought we knew and examine what we think we know now.

And in doing so, that trio has again slotted every team in the league from worst to first-there's a new team at both ends of that spectrum.

High: 31

Last Week: 29

Week 13 Result: Lost at Seattle, 43-16

If the 2018 season ended today, the San Francisco 49ers would get the No. 1 pick in the 2019 NFL draft.

That's just about the nicest thing we can say about the 49ers after they were waylayed by the Seahawks in Seattle on Sunday afternoon.

The game was just a continuation of a season for the 49ers in which everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. The injuries that have ravaged the team continued to mount, with tailback Matt Breida aggravating his balky ankle. Undrafted rookie quarterback Nick Mullens had his best game as a pro, but many of those numbers were piled up in garbage time.

There were at least a couple of bright spots. Young wide receiver Dante Pettis gouged the Seahawks for 129 yards and two scores on five grabs, and defensive tackle DeForest Buckner continued to shine up front with a pair of sacks.

With the kind of year the Niners have had, you take good news anywhere you can find it.

Last Week: 20

Week 13 Result: Lost at Houston, 29-13

If wins over the Atlanta Falcons and Cincinnati Bengals in their last two games were an indication of how far the Cleveland Browns have come in 2018, Sunday's trip to Houston was a reminder the Browns still have a way to go.

Even in the loss, there were a few bright spots, including a career-high 397 passing yards from Baker Mayfield. But Mayfield also threw three first-half interceptions, and four turnovers doomed the Browns against a red-hot Texans team.

The Browns aren't the laughingstock that they have been the past couple of years, but it's a young team that still has a lot of growing to do.

The question that looms over the team is whom general manager John Dorsey and the Browns will tab to lead the team through its growing pains. Has Cleveland's competitiveness of late given Gregg Williams a legitimate chance at the head coaching job, or will the Browns look to an outsider in 2019?

Last Week: 9

Week 13 Result: Lost at New England, 24-10

It's tightrope time for the Minnesota Vikings after the team lost by two scores in New England in Week 13.

If the Washington Redskins beat the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night, a Vikings team that entered the season a Super Bowl front-runner will find itself on the outside looking in where the NFC playoffs are concerned.

Frankly, Minnesota has no one to blame but itself. Every time in 2018 this team has been tested, it has failed. There was the seven-point Week 4 loss to the Rams. The 10-point defeat at the hands of the New Orleans Saints in Week 8. Another loss in Chicago in Week 11. And Sunday's second-half collapse against the Patriots.

The Vikings are 0-4 against teams with a winning record this season-a number that doesn't bode well given a Week 14 trip to Seattle to face the 7-5 Seahawks.

"On paper," Davenport said, "this looks like a loaded roster-a team that should absolutely make the playoffs. But in reality, something's missing. Something intangible. It's simple at this point; if the Vikings lose in Seattle next week, they aren't making the playoffs. And I have little faith they won't."

High: 6

Low: 10

Last Week: 7

Week 13 Result: Lost vs. Los Angeles Chargers, 33-30

Not long ago, the Pittsburgh Steelers were in cruise control. Winners of five straight, the Steelers were playing as well as any team in the AFC.

Then came a miserable first half against Jacksonville. The Steelers were able to overcome that and notch a sixth straight win, but an error-filled performance against Denver the following week ended the streak.

Over the first half against the Los Angeles Chargers, it appeared the Steelers had shaken that loss off. Pittsburgh dominated at the point of attack on both sides of the ball and led, 23-7, at the break.

However, the Steelers were outscored 26-7 in the second half, losing for the second straight game on a field goal as time expired.

The Steelers remain a dangerous team with an offense loaded with skill-position talent. But this skid has dropped Pittsburgh to No. 4 in the AFC and seriously damaged the team's chances of earning a first-round playoff bye.

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NFL Power Rankings: B/R's Expert Consensus Rank for Every Team Entering Week 14

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Over the past several weeks, there's been plenty of movement in the Bleacher Report NFL power rankings. But there hasn't been much at the top. However, from the first game of this week's slate, we knew that lucky Week 13 would be different...

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3 teens arrested in murder of Louisiana pastor's wife

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Three Louisiana teenagers were arrested Saturday after a pastor's wife was run over and killed by her own vehicle during a carjacking.

Jeannot Franco Plessy, 49, was pulled from her own car and thrown to the ground while she was outside her daughter's home on Nov. 27. Her son-in-law tried to stop the carjacking, but the teens reversed the car and ran over Plessy. She died later that night from blunt force trauma.

A 17-year-old, Jontrell Robinson, was charged with second-degree murder and carjacking, New Orleans police said. Edwin Cottrell, 18, was arrested and charged with being a principal to second-degree murder and a principal to carjacking.

Another juvenile, who was not identified, was also charged with being a principal to second-degree murder and principal to carjacking.

Plessy was a mother-of-five who co-founded the outreach ministry Crossover Christian Fellowship with her husband, David Plessy, more than a decade ago. David Plessy said his wife was a domestic abuse survivor who recently returned from an evangelical trip to American Samoa during domestic violence awareness month, according to WWL-TV.

David Plessy called his wife's death "an act of selfishness."

"One inclination would be to scream out for justice and scream out of anger, and perhaps that's a stage of my grief that's in front of me," he told WWL-TV. "But I know my wife has never failed to forgive anyone who has hurt her."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Three Louisiana teenagers were arrested Saturday after a pastor's wife was run over and killed by her own vehicle during a carjacking. Jeannot Franco Plessy, 49, was pulled from her own car and thrown to the ground while she was outside her daughter's home on Nov. 27.

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Ohio State Football Head Coach Urban Meyer has been a great coach in college football for many years. Now, after the Rose Bowl, he will retire.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Urban Meyer, the highly successful coach who won three national championships and sparked controversy and criticism this season for his handling of domestic violence allegations against a now-fired assistant, will retire after the Rose Bowl, the university announced Tuesday.

A news conference was scheduled for later Tuesday during which Meyer will formally announce his retirement and co-offensive coordinator Ryan Day would be named the program's 25th head coach.

Ohio State didn't immediately say why Meyer was stepping down after seven years at Ohio State, but the 54-year-old coach has previously cited health concerns. He has what is called an arachnoid cyst in his brain that causes severe headaches.

Meyer had shown obvious effects of being in pain on the sideline this season. He also was heavily criticized for what some saw as overly lax treatment of now-fired assistant coach Zach Smith, who was accused by his ex-wife of domestic abuse.

Meyer said he knew about the accusations against Smith -- grandson of former Ohio State coach Earle Bruce -- but wasn't sure they were true and kept Smith on his staff because no criminal charges were filed. The university cited that lapse in suspending Meyer for the first three games of the season after an investigation.

A detailed report issued by an investigative committee left a lasting stain, detailing behavior by Meyer that could easily have taken down a coach of lesser stature. The investigation showed that he tolerated bad behavior for years from Smith, including domestic-violence accusations, drug addiction, lies and other acts that directly clash with the values Meyer touts publicly.

The Buckeyes' strong finish this season belied on-the-field problems that made for a stressful season for Meyer and his staff. He lost star defensive end Nick Bosa to an early season-ending injury, and the Buckeyes' defense never fully recovered. During his suspension, the team was run by Day, the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He's a second-year Ohio State assistant who had never before been a head coach.

The team alternated expected blowout wins with puzzling play that included a pair of one-point wins (Penn State, Maryland) and a closer-than-expected win over a struggling Nebraska team. A shocking blowout loss at unranked Purdue on Oct. 20 pushed Ohio State to the fringe of the national championship chase and prompted all sorts of questions about Meyer's future.

Shortly before Halloween, Meyer addressed speculation that he could step down at the end of the season, saying he felt fine and definitely would be back next year.

"I plan on coaching," he said on Oct. 29. Asked if he would definitely return to Ohio State next year, he answered, "Yes."

Ohio State followed that with five straight wins, including a rout of archrival Michigan that gave the Buckeyes another division title and a win over Northwestern in the Big Ten Championship.

Meyer has piled up wins at Ohio State after a similar run over six years at Florida that included two national championships. After stepping down at Florida due to stress-related health concerns, he took the Ohio State job before the 2012 season after Jim Tressel was forced out for lying to the NCAA amid a memorabilia-for-tattoos scandal. It appeared to be a dream job for the Toledo native and success quickly followed.

His contract was extended in April by two years through 2022, increasing Meyer's salary to $7.6 million in 2018 with annual 6 percent raises. Meyer has about $38 million left on his contract.

He started his head-coaching career at Bowling Green in 2001 and moved on to Utah two seasons later before taking the Florida job in 2005 and rocketing to the top of the college football coaching ranks, a peer of Alabama coach Nick Saban in terms of respect and ability.
Copyright 2018 by The Associated Press

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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Urban Meyer, the highly successful coach who won three national championships and sparked controversy and criticism this season for his handling of domestic violence allegations against a now-fired assistant, will retire after the Rose Bowl, the university announced Tuesday.

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Colorado man who claims he responded to teen's Craigslist ad asking for someone to kill her pleads guilty to murder

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Three Louisiana teenagers were arrested Saturday after a pastor’s wife was run over and killed by her own vehicle during a carjacking.

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Emails from top officials at the National Republican Congressional Committee were hacked during the 2018 midterm elections, Republican sources tell CNN, exposing the GOP's House campaign arm to an intrusion by an "unknown entity."

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Seven-year-old Ryan, the host of the Ryan ToysReview YouTube channel, has earned more than $22 million this year and was named Forbes' highest-paid YouTube star.

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Three Louisiana teens were arrested for the murder of a pastor's wife. The woman was run over by her own vehicle. They carjacked the car and reversed over her, causing her to die later that night.

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Three Louisiana teenagers were arrested Saturday after a pastor's wife was run over and killed by her own vehicle during a carjacking.

Jeannot Franco Plessy, 49, was pulled from her own car and thrown to the ground while she was outside her daughter's home on Nov. 27. Her son-in-law tried to stop the carjacking, but the teens reversed the car and ran over Plessy. She died later that night from blunt force trauma.

A 17-year-old, Jontrell Robinson, was charged with second-degree murder and carjacking, New Orleans police said. Edwin Cottrell, 18, was arrested and charged with being a principal to second-degree murder and a principal to carjacking.

Another juvenile, who was not identified, was also charged with being a principal to second-degree murder and principal to carjacking.

Plessy was a mother-of-five who co-founded the outreach ministry Crossover Christian Fellowship with her husband, David Plessy, more than a decade ago. David Plessy said his wife was a domestic abuse survivor who recently returned from an evangelical trip to American Samoa during domestic violence awareness month, according to WWL-TV.

David Plessy called his wife's death "an act of selfishness."

"One inclination would be to scream out for justice and scream out of anger, and perhaps that's a stage of my grief that's in front of me," he told WWL-TV. "But I know my wife has never failed to forgive anyone who has hurt her."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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3 teens arrested in murder of Louisiana pastor's wife

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Three Louisiana teenagers were arrested Saturday after a pastor's wife was run over and killed by her own vehicle during a carjacking. Jeannot Franco Plessy, 49, was pulled from her own car and thrown to the ground while she was outside her daughter's home on Nov. 27.

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Aer Lingus passenger gets $300 phone bill after not using airplane mode. The flight attendants advise people to turn on airplane mode before the flight begins and the passenger failed to do so and now has a fine of $300.

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Before every flight, passengers are advised to switch off their mobile devices or turn on airplane mode.

While safety is a part of it, doing this could also save you from being hit with hefty roaming charges. Depending on the plane and your device, a phone which hasn't been put in airplane mode could automatically connect to the aircraft's antenna and rack up the charges without you realizing it.

This is because some phones will automatically connect to a roaming network - often using satellite, where charges are much higher - as one traveler flying with Aer Lingus recently found out.
WATER FROM AIRPLANE TANKS MAY CONTAIN E. COLI, STUDY SUGGESTS
The unnamed passenger told The Irish Times that he left his phone on in the overhead compartment while traveling to the U.S. and ended up with almost $300 in charges from his provider AT&T - the bill for which he only received weeks later.

AT&T said that the phone had connected to the plane's antenna and used data that was "outside an unlimited international roaming plan," which incurred the extra charges.

Although it doesn't always happen, the airline confirmed that passengers' devices "may connect to the in-flight roaming network" without them opting into the fee-paying WiFi network.

Instead, the money is directly billed to the provider, as was the case in this instance.

But it's not just roaming on flights you need to worry about - leaving your phone on while at sea might incur sizeable fees too.
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In 2016, Mark Stokes from West Yorkshire received a $433 bill from O2 after roaming while on a cross-channel ferry.

He had paid for a bolt-on package with the service provider so he could use his phone as normal while abroad so was surprised to receive the extra charges.

According to the BBC, the extra charges were as a result of the ferry's own mobile network, which is operated via satellite. The satellite network falls outside the usual mobile networks meaning that normal phone tariffs don't apply.

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Aer Lingus passenger gets $300 phone bill after not using airplane mode

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The Heerlein family was trying to win their neighborhood holiday decorating contest, but multiple passersby thought someone was in trouble

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The Heerlein family was trying to win their neighborhood holiday decorating contest, but multiple passersby thought someone was in trouble.

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3 teens arrested in murder of Louisiana pastor's wife

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Three Louisiana teenagers were arrested Saturday after a pastor's wife was run over and killed by her own vehicle during a carjacking.

Jeannot Franco Plessy, 49, was pulled from her own car and thrown to the ground while she was outside her daughter's home on Nov. 27. Her son-in-law tried to stop the carjacking, but the teens reversed the car and ran over Plessy. She died later that night from blunt force trauma.

A 17-year-old, Jontrell Robinson, was charged with second-degree murder and carjacking, New Orleans police said. Edwin Cottrell, 18, was arrested and charged with being a principal to second-degree murder and a principal to carjacking.

Another juvenile, who was not identified, was also charged with being a principal to second-degree murder and principal to carjacking.

Plessy was a mother-of-five who co-founded the outreach ministry Crossover Christian Fellowship with her husband, David Plessy, more than a decade ago. David Plessy said his wife was a domestic abuse survivor who recently returned from an evangelical trip to American Samoa during domestic violence awareness month, according to WWL-TV.

David Plessy called his wife's death "an act of selfishness."

"One inclination would be to scream out for justice and scream out of anger, and perhaps that's a stage of my grief that's in front of me," he told WWL-TV. "But I know my wife has never failed to forgive anyone who has hurt her."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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3 teens arrested in murder of Louisiana pastor's wife

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Three Louisiana teenagers were arrested Saturday after a pastor's wife was run over and killed by her own vehicle during a carjacking. Jeannot Franco Plessy, 49, was pulled from her own car and thrown to the ground while she was outside her daughter's home on Nov. 27.

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The Long Island man who dug up bones in the basement of his childhood home searching for his long-missing father now sits in his cluttered living room wondering if he has unraveled a darker mystery.

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The Long Island man who dug up bones in the basement of his childhood home searching for his long-missing father now sits in his cluttered living room wondering if he has unraveled a darker mystery.

Michael Carroll, 57, believes the remains are those of his father George Carroll, a U.S. Army Korean War veteran who has been missing for decades. Over the years Carroll consulted psychics and ghost hunters to help with the search. He also hired a company with ground-penetrating radar that advised him on where to dig.

"This is almost a perfect crime but I wasn't supposed to find him," he said in an interview with Fox News.

Carroll said the person who may have had something to do with his missing father is a man who his mother subsequently married, Richard Darress, but added: "I'm trying to avoid pointing a finger at this point."
MYSTERY DEEPENS AS SKULL FOUND BURIED IN LONG ISLAND BASEMENT SHOWS SIGNS OF BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA
Darress died in June in Laredo, Texas, a funeral home there told Fox News. Before he died he had been living in Mexico, across the border from Laredo.

"He would have been someone we would have wanted to speak with," Lt. Kevin Beyrer, commander of the Suffolk Police homicide squad, told Newsday two weeks ago.

Police have been investigating since Michael Carroll's sons found the remains on Oct. 30 after digging a six-foot hole and breaking through a cinder block wall that had been part of an old water well.

Adding to the mystery, police said the skull was fractured by blunt force trauma.

DNA testing is now underway to identify the remains. Michael Carroll said the family expects to learn the results of those tests in about a month.

The Carroll home is on Olive Street in Lake Grove, about 60 miles east of Manhattan. George Carroll bought the home in 1955 and was living there with his wife Dorothy and their four children-two boys and two girls -- when he disappeared. Dorothy Carroll sold it to Michael Carroll, her son, in 1993.

Records show Dorothy Carroll and Darress were divorced in 1985.

Michael Carroll said six years earlier his mother threw Darress out of the house after she suspected him of cheating on her.

He wouldn't say when Darress first showed up on Olive Street.

"I know that guy came into our lives down the road and it wasn't a good deal," he said.

On Facebook, Darress identified himself as a long-distance trucker who was injured on the job in 2012 and could no longer work. Public records show he was a licensed ham radio operator, a licensed commercial pilot license and a licensed gun owner in Florida. His last Facebook post was in 2012.

In Florida, he was married to a woman who obtained a temporary order of protection against him in 2000 before they divorced, according to court records in Martin County. The order forbid Darress from having any contact with the woman and to surrender any guns he had in his possession.
PSYCHIC, GHOST HUNTERS HELPED LONG ISLAND MAN FIND DAD'S REMAINS IN 57-YEAR-OLD MYSTERY

Adding to the mystery of George Carroll's disappearance, police said they could find no record that he was ever reported missing by his wife. He was in his twenties when he disappeared.

On top of that, there also appears to be a discrepancy about what year he actually disappeared.

The day after the discovery of the skull, police told local media that the family believed George Carroll went missing in 1961.

"It was family legend or lore that their father was buried in the basement since 1961," Lt. Kevin Beyrer, commander of the Suffolk Police homicide squad, said that day.

But George Carroll was still residing at the Olive Street address on June 20, 1963, when he testified in a negligence lawsuit naming him and his wife Dorothy Carroll as defendants, according to court papers uncovered by Fox News.

He was accused of putting up a children's swing set that toppled over in July 1962, injuring a four-year-old child, who was his niece, according to the court file. Carroll and his wife were told to pay the girl's mother, Dorothy Carroll's sister, $4,700 after they were found liable for the accident. An appeals panel tossed out the damage award but New York's top court reinstated it in 1965.

Michael Carroll said he wasn't aware of the lawsuit but does not believe that it had anything to do with his father's disappearance.

"My aunt and my mother were friends for years after that," he said.

Carroll said he never wanted to believe his father abandoned him and his three older siblings when they were younger.

"My family is really broken from this," he said.

Dorothy Carroll died of cancer in 1998, according to her son, who admits that she "doesn't come off smelling like a rose."

It was always her story that George Carroll went out for cigarettes one day and never came back, Michael Carroll said.

"When we asked her about it, she would say, 'Don't ask, it's not important'."

Before she died Carroll, said he urged his mother to tell them whatever she knew, if anything at all..

"I was saying, 'If there's anything you want to get off your chest before you go you can tell your daughters. Mom is there anything you want to say?'"

He added: "I basically said nothing is going to change the way we feel about you."

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homson Reuters is eliminating 12% of its global workforce.

The media company is drastically shrinking its staff, cutting 3,200 jobs and closing 55 offices by 2020. Reuters says it will employ roughly 23,800 people -- down from its current workforce of 27,000.

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House Republican campaign arm hacked during 2018 midterms

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Emails from top officials at the National Republican Congressional Committee were hacked during the 2018 midterm elections, Republican sources tell CNN, exposing the GOP's House campaign arm to an intrusion by an "unknown entity."

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The skeleton of a man, dating back around 500 years, has been discovered face down in the mud under London's River Thames, with his thigh-high leather footwear remaining virtually intact.

The find was made in Bermondsey, south London.

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Leather was an expensive commodity in Tudor times so it is unlikely someone would be buried wearing it, meaning the man's demise was likely premature.

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5.1 million pounds of beef added to recall due to salmonella

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JBS Tolleson, Inc. is recalling more than 5.1 million pounds of raw beef products that may be tainted with salmonella, the USDA's FSIS said Tuesday. This expands a recall first issued in October as a result of a salmonella outbreak that has made 246 people sick.

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Before every flight, passengers are advised to switch off their mobile devices or turn on airplane mode.  While safety is a part of it, doing this could also save you from being hit with hefty roaming charges. Depending on the plane and your device, a phone which hasn't been put in airplane mode could automatically connect to the aircraft's antenna and rack up the charges without you realizing it.  This is because some phones will automatically connect to a roaming network - often using satellite, where charges are much higher - as one traveler flying with Aer Lingus recently found out.

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Before every flight, passengers are advised to switch off their mobile devices or turn on airplane mode.

While safety is a part of it, doing this could also save you from being hit with hefty roaming charges. Depending on the plane and your device, a phone which hasn't been put in airplane mode could automatically connect to the aircraft's antenna and rack up the charges without you realizing it.

This is because some phones will automatically connect to a roaming network - often using satellite, where charges are much higher - as one traveler flying with Aer Lingus recently found out.
WATER FROM AIRPLANE TANKS MAY CONTAIN E. COLI, STUDY SUGGESTS
The unnamed passenger told The Irish Times that he left his phone on in the overhead compartment while traveling to the U.S. and ended up with almost $300 in charges from his provider AT&T - the bill for which he only received weeks later.

AT&T said that the phone had connected to the plane's antenna and used data that was "outside an unlimited international roaming plan," which incurred the extra charges.

Although it doesn't always happen, the airline confirmed that passengers' devices "may connect to the in-flight roaming network" without them opting into the fee-paying WiFi network.

Instead, the money is directly billed to the provider, as was the case in this instance.

But it's not just roaming on flights you need to worry about - leaving your phone on while at sea might incur sizeable fees too.
FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWS
In 2016, Mark Stokes from West Yorkshire received a $433 bill from O2 after roaming while on a cross-channel ferry.

He had paid for a bolt-on package with the service provider so he could use his phone as normal while abroad so was surprised to receive the extra charges.

According to the BBC, the extra charges were as a result of the ferry's own mobile network, which is operated via satellite. The satellite network falls outside the usual mobile networks meaning that normal phone tariffs don't apply.

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Aer Lingus passenger gets $300 phone bill after not using airplane mode

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Before every flight, passengers are advised to switch off their mobile devices or turn on airplane mode. While safety is a part of it, doing this could also save you from being hit with hefty roaming charges.

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JBS Tolleson Inc. is recalling more than 5.1 million pounds of raw beef products that may be tainted with salmonella, the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Tuesday.

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JBS Tolleson, Inc. is recalling more than 5.1 million pounds of raw beef products that may be tainted with salmonella, the USDA's FSIS said Tuesday. This expands a recall first issued in October as a result of a salmonella outbreak that has made 246 people sick.