The bodies of four victims of a fiery plane crash that took place in the Birchwood/Chugiak area on Wednesday morning have been recovered and their identities released following next of kin notifications. Killed in the Cessna 172 crash that was reported just after 9 am this morning were the pilot, 64-year-old George Kobelnyk, his co-pilot, […]
At 9:06 pm Tuesday night, Alaska State Troopers responded to a two-vehicle collision involving fatalities on the Parks Highway. When troopers arrived at the scene, they found one of the vehicles, a GMC Safari, engulfed in flames. The highway was closed off as fire-fighting efforts were utilized to extinguish the flames. The trooper investigation at […]
At least 100 bodies have been recovered and rescue workers in northern Myanmar are pulling more bodies from the rubble Monday, two days after a massive landslide near a jade mine. Reuters reports while friends and family have identified some of the bodies, stacks of unidentified bodies wrapped in blue tarp remain. Nilar Myint, a […]
A top U.S. military commander says American forces were to blame for mistakenly hitting a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan in an aerial bombardment Saturday that killed 22 people. U.S. Army General John Campbell told a congressional committee in Washington that Afghan forces requested the airstrike on the hospital operated by the international medical charity Doctors […]