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Detectives question military history prof about severed limbs in rucksack
Police later found the body of his student in his apartment, news reports indicate.
Moscow: Nuclear reactor safe on fire-ravaged sub
Russian media reported that it was the country’s most secret submersible, a nuclear-powered research submarine called the Losharik intended for sensitive missions at great depths.
Meet the world’s friendliest escaped Russian spy whale
Norwegians are petting the whale's nose!
By Jan M. Olsen, The Associated Press
Presidents’ Day pause: How ‘Uncle Sam’s Web-feet’ helped swing an election for Abe Lincoln
The U.S. Navy's triumph at Mobile Bay, combined with victorious Federal ground campaigns in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia, helped reelect Abraham Lincoln and doomed the Confederacy to defeat.
By Gerald D. Swick, Civil War Times Magazine
With debris spotted in the water, Coast Guard officials suspend search for missing plane
It's a tragic end to a search took 63 hours and sprawled across 240 square nautical miles in the waters of the Alexander Archipelago.
By Carl Prine
Search for missing medical plane continues in Alaska
Aircraft debris reported in the water near where the plane is believed to have disappeared.
By Carl Prine
Coast Guard searching for missing medical plane
Coast Guard Sector Juneau watchstanders received a warning from Sitka Flight Services that a twin-engine Guardian King Air 200 medical flight was due to land at the village of Kake — about 635 miles southeast of Anchorage on the northwest shore of Kupreanof Island — at 6:19 p.m. Tuesday but never made it.
By Carl Prine