It's the last day to book a flight on Southwest Airlines without being hit with a fee to check bags after the airline abandoned a decades-long luggage policy that executives once described as key to differentiating the budget carrier from its rivals.

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center personnel say they welcomed a bobcat kitten on Wednesday, May 21, saying they found it on the side of the road in Floyd after its mother was found struck by a car. Personnel say the kitten weighed 512 grams, a little over a pound.

(NewsNation) — Starting Wednesday, Southwest Airlines will end its decades-long policy of free checked bags and will now require customers to pay for luggage. The move comes ahead of a change to seating assignment process that users have navigated for ...

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A Southwest Airlines plane was taken out of service for inspection after being seemingly struck by lightning, with thunderstorms over Denver.

Southwest Airlines is cutting 1,750 jobs as part of a restructuring plan to streamline operations and reduce corporate costs. Southwest announced the layoffs for about 15 percent of the airline's corporate workforce in a news release on Monday, Feb. 17.