Coast Guard suspends search for survivors in military aircraft crash; investigation continues
LOS ANGELES (AP) With the possibility of finding survivors all but gone and the ocean search shifted from a rescue effort to a recovery mission, focus fell today on what caused a Marine Corps helicopter and U.S. Coast Guard plane to collide over th...
 1.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 80.0 Jeter receives Clemente award
NEW YORK Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter has won the Roberto Clemente Award. The Yankees captain was presented with the award Thursday before the start of Game 2 of the World Series between New York and the Philadelphia Phillies. The award is given a...
0.8K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 80.0 Plane, copter collide
LOS ANGELES (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy were searching early today for as many as nine people off the Southern California coast following a collision between a Coast Guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter, officials said. The crash was re...
2.4K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 120.0 President honors fallen soldier
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Delaware Standing in the pre-dawn darkness, President Barack Obama saw the real cost of the war in Afghanistan: The Americans who return in flag-covered cases while much of their nation sleeps in peace. In a midnight dash to ...
4.6K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 144.0 Gearhart crash report: Pilot was disoriented
GEARHART (AP) The pilot of a small plane that crashed into an Oregon vacation house failed to maintain control because of spatial disorientation, a federal agency said in its report on the tragedy that left five people dead. Jason Ketcheson, 36, of...
2.3K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 221.0 Searchers find debris in Atlantic
CHARLESTON, S.C. Debris and an oil slick were spotted in the Atlantic off the South Carolina coast as the search expanded Friday for an F-16 fighter pilot whose jet collided with another during night training exercises. We did have a report of an o...
4.7K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 120.0 Gearhart crash report: Pilot was disoriented
GEARHART (AP) The pilot of a small plane that crashed into an Oregon vacation house failed to maintain control because of spatial disorientation, a federal agency said in its report on the tragedy that left five people dead. Jason Ketcheson, 36, of...
2.3K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 221.0 Searchers find debris in Atlantic
CHARLESTON, S.C. Debris and an oil slick were spotted in the Atlantic off the South Carolina coast as the search expanded Friday for an F-16 fighter pilot whose jet collided with another during night training exercises. We did have a report of an o...
4.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 120.0 Widow sues chopper owner
PHILADELPHIA (AP) The widow of the small-plane pilot killed in a collision with a helicopter over the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit accusing the helicopter operators of operating an aerial bumper c...
2.3K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 120.0 Plane's owner concerned about pilot
PORTLAND (AP) Investigators say the owner of a plane was concerned about a pilot for weeks before a deadly crash in Gearhart last summer. According to a National Transportation Safety Board report, Allen Sprague said he got concerned after Jason Ke...
0.8K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 80.0 Report blames pilot for deadly Ark. plane crash
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Federal officials say the pilot of a small business jet that crashed in central Arkansas more than two years ago, killing two people, failed to fly a stabilized approach and delayed his decision to abort the landing. The June...
0.9K - Sep. 14, 2009; scored 913.0 Whiteout is half-brained but intriguing
It s Kate Beckinsale on Ice. In the new cold-blooded suspense flick Whiteout, the actress plays Carrie Stetko, a U.S. Marshall posted at a remote base in Antarctica. Yes, the movies have returned to our southernmost continent: Whiteout follows in...
3.4K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 133.0 Plane crash victims identified
ROSEBURG (AP) Authorities have identified the victims of a weekend plane crash in southern Oregon as a Roseburg couple. Douglas County sheriff s deputies said a Tuesday autopsy identified the victims as Ernie Knigge, 71, and Elaina Knigge, 70, the ...
0.6K - Sep. 2, 2009; scored 854.0 Young driver faces the learning curve
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Chase Austin caught a flash of blue and orange out of the corner of his eye right before he drove into the side of the race car. He wasn t sure whom he had hit until he heard the crowd roar with delight. Austin cringed. He d just wr...
5.8K - Aug. 29, 2009; scored 80.0 The last of a dynasty
WASHINGTON In the quiet of a Capitol elevator, one of Edward M. Kennedy s fellow lawmakers asked whether he had plans for a family Thanksgiving away from the nation s capital. No, the Massachusetts senator said with a shake of his head, and mentio...
12.3K - Aug. 26, 2009; scored 144.0 Kennedy succumbs to brain cancer
HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (AP) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in an enduring political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a yearlong struggle ...
7.5K - Aug. 26, 2009; scored 127.0 Pilot dies when small plane crashes after takeoff
EUGENE (AP) Lane County officials say the pilot of a single-engine plane has died when it crashed shortly after takeoff from Creswell Airport. Lt. Randy Smith of the county sheriff s department said the pilot was killed when the plane crashed Sunda...
0.9K - Aug. 24, 2009; scored 1000.0 Scotland frees terminally ill Lockerbie bomber
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing him to go home to Libya to die and rejecting American pleas for justice in the 1988 attack that killed 270 people. As the White ...
6.1K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 80.0 FAA: Controller was on phone during fatal crash over Hudson River
WASHINGTON (AP) A personal phone call during last week s collision over New York s Hudson River has led to two air traffic controllers being removed from duty, although officials said the conversation probably had no impact on the tragedy. The Fede...
1.5K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 428.0 NTSB: Divers hope to recover plane from Hudson
HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) Troublesome currents and low visibility hampered efforts Tuesday to recover the waterlogged wreckage of a plane and two remaining victims from the Hudson River air collision that killed nine people, authorities said. NYPD divers ...
3.3K - Aug. 11, 2009; scored 468.0 | 
