The Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command from the Defense Department has announced on Monday that the crash site of the World War II Coast Guard rescue aircraft Grumman Duck has been located after 70 years.
26-year-old Aaron Swartz, a computer prodigy turned Internet activist, was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment on Friday. He committed suicide by hanging.
In a surprise move just days before the Alaska Legislature goes back to Juneau, West Anchorage's Representative Lindsey Holmes blind-sided the Alaska's Democrat Party and switched sides after being elected on the Democratic ticket to her seat once again.
Afghan officials are reporting the death of seven civilians in a mosque explosion early Sunday morning in the Sayad Abad District of the Wardak province of Afghanistan.