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NEW DETAILS: Boston Suspects Had Plotted July 4th Attack, Investigators Say

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 3rd

NBCNEWS.COM - The brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombings originally planned to set off explosives on July 4 — but changed their minds and decided on Patriot's Day, officials with knowledge of suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's interrogation told NBC News. Investigators also now

Plane crash victims' families spend time together

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 1st

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) - The brother of an airline mechanic killed in a cargo plane crash in Afghanistan this week says he and other victims' family members have found comfort in each other during meetings at a Detroit-area hotel. Glenn Stockdale's brother Gary was among the seven

Company IDs 7 killed in Afghanistan plane crash

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 1st

By COREY WILLIAMS, JEFF KAROUB and JOAN LOWYAssociated Press DETROIT (AP) - Jamie Brokaw was an experienced navigator who was no stranger to dangerous flying situations and had the skills to stay cool in the face of danger, according to close friend Chris Connerton. "He was a very good person and

NEW DETAILS ON KHQ.COM: U.S. Cargo Plane Crashes In Afghanistan; Americans Killed

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 30th

UPDATE: A U.S. cargo plane company has released the names of seven people killed when one of its planes crashed in Afghanistan. National Air Cargo Vice President Shirley Kaufman says six of the seven victims killed in Monday's crash outside Bagram Air Base were from Michigan,

Company IDs 7 killed in Afghanistan plane crash

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 30th

By COREY WILLIAMS, JEFF KAROUB and JOAN LOWYAssociated Press DETROIT (AP) - Building model planes and working on real ones comprised Gary Stockdale's passion, filling the family's basement with models in his youth, jumping into aviation as a career at age 16 - and later working at two

Company IDs 7 killed in Afghanistan plane crash

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 30th

Army amputee completes air assault school

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 29th

By KRISTIN M. HALLAssociated Press FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - Sgt. 1st Class Greg Robinson has become the first amputee to complete Army air assault school, a course so grueling his prosthetic leg broke twice over the 10 days spent rappelling down ropes, navigating obstacle courses and completing

Lawmaker: FBI checking training angle in bombing

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 28th

WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday that the FBI is investigating in the United States and overseas to determine whether the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing received training that helped them carry out the attack. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is

Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 27th

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and MATT APUZZOAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received

US tries new aerial tools in Caribbean drug fight

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 27th

By BEN FOXAssociated Press ABOARD THE HIGH SPEED VESSEL SWIFT (AP) - Drug smugglers who race across the Caribbean in speedboats will typically jettison their cargo when spotted by surveillance aircraft, hoping any chance of prosecuting them will vanish with the drugs sinking to the bottom of the