The Hooper Bay Police Department relayed to the Alaska State Troopers that they had received a distress call from a boat approximately 18 miles off-shore in the Bering Sea on Wednesday night.
Troopers have deployed an aircraft to search for 31-year-old Napaskiak resident Joshua Evan, who has been missing since May 26th.
The Arizona woman who was detained nine days ago in Mexico and thrown into prison there on drug smuggling charges, has been released and re-united with her family late Thursday night.
Russian sources say that no S-300 anti-aircraft missiles have been shipped to Syria as yet, rejecting claims by Assad that he had received the first shipment of the long-range surface to air missiles.