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U.S. / NEWS Thu May 22, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- The U.S. military cannot automatically discharge people because they are gay, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in the case of a decorated flight nurse who sued the Air Force over her dismissal. The three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 19, 2007 @ 12:04pm neoform

MSNBC -- The Air Force is planning to fire at least five officers for an incident in which nuclear-armed missiles were mistakenly loaded on a B-52 bomber and flown across the U.S. — the worst known violation of nuclear security rules in decades. Defense Secre.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 10:10am neoform

OpEd News -- WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence sources that the B-52 transporting six stealth AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles, each armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead, on August 30, were destined for the Middle East via Barksdale Air Force Base in L.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 18, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- The search for missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett in the rugged and remote high Nevada desert was cut back on Monday. The Civil Air Patrol, which had 20 planes and 60 searchers aloft over the weekend, suspended further flights and left two plane.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jul 29, 2007 @ 10:39am neoform

CNN -- A biplane stunt pilot died after he crashed in front of thousands of spectators during a Dayton, Ohio, air show Saturday, a day after another pilot was killed during an air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. WHIO-TV reported pilot Jim LeRoy of Billings, Montana,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 20, 2007 @ 11:31am neoform

FOX News -- New Yorkers are still questioning their air's safety after a steam pipe eruption spewed dirt and debris into the sky over midtown. Many remember the cover-up after the last major pipe rupture and the illnesses ground zero workers faced years after officia.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 19, 2007 @ 4:35pm neoform

CNN -- The air was declared clean, but the carcinogen asbestos was found in dust and debris hurled into midtown Manhattan by a steam pipe explosion the day before, New York City announced Thursday. The city's Department of Emergency Management will continue to t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Apr 21, 2007 @ 10:32pm neoform

ABC News -- A Navy Blue Angel jet crashed during an air show Saturday, plunging into a neighborhood of small homes and trailers and killing the pilot. Witnesses said the planes were flying in formation during the show at the Marine Corps Air Station at about 4 p.m.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 23, 2008 @ 8:09am neoform

SF Gate -- Red colored lights that formed a square and then a triangle were seen floating over north Phoenix late Monday, a sight reminiscent of an unexplained 1997 sighting that has become part of the area's lore. There was no immediate word where they came from.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 13, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US is tightening air quality standards in an effort to help improve public health. It is lowering the amount of smog-forming ground-level ozone permitted in the atmosphere for the first time in more than.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 20, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

MSNBC -- Fewer flights will go in and out of New York City airports at the busiest times to try to ease chronic nationwide air travel delays, the government said Wednesday. To help holiday travelers, military airspace will be opened to commercial traffic on the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 14, 2007 @ 8:10am neoform

SF Gate -- For the second time in three days, a pilot has been killed in a crash at the Reno National Championship Air Races. A jet crashed Thursday afternoon during a competition, touching off a small brush fire along the runway at Stead Airport north of Reno, s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- Shane Gorman took a tighter grip on the wheel of his Cessna 172 as the single-engine airplane suddenly leaped straight up in the air, then shimmied violently back and forth. At 8,000 feet, the lurches were gut-wrenching. "Feel that?" he said, a slight.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 5, 2007 @ 2:02pm neoform

CNN -- Six nuclear warheads on cruise missiles were mistakenly carried on a flight from North Dakota to Louisiana last week, prompting a major investigation, military officials have confirmed. The plane took the cruise missiles from Minot Air Force Base to B.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 3:45pm neoform

SF Gate -- Hurricane Felix slammed into Nicaragua's Miskito Coast as a record-setting Category 5 storm Tuesday, whipping metal rooftops through the air like razors and forcing thousands to flee. Hurricane Henriette made for a direct hit on the Cabos resorts of Mexic.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 8:11am neoform

SF Gate -- A squadron of air tankers was battling a blaze burning out of control Monday night in the hills east of Morgan Hill in Santa Clara County. By 8:30 p.m., the blaze, which has been named the Lick fire, had burned more than 1,200 acres of timber and brush.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 10, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

USA Today -- The frenetic effort to drill into the presumed location of six workers trapped in a collapsed mine yielded no audible evidence of survivors early Friday. But rescuers cautioned their work isn't done and that air quality in the mine could sustain life... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 8, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

Washington Post -- You thought yesterday was bad? Today could be worse. A lot worse. Oh, the air might feel a little less steamy. But the westerly winds that promise to dry things out also might heat things up. And up. Compare: By midafternoon yesterday, the temper.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

CNN -- Thunderstorms spread from the Great Lakes to the Tennessee Valley early Tuesday, while sultry air settled over the East Coast and high pressure kept the Plains and West calm. A cold front was moving through the Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee valleys,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 29, 2007 @ 3:27pm mrmdc

ABC News -- A stowaway found dead in the wheel well of a British Airways jet was a South African teen, but investigators were still trying to determine where and how he got into the plane, officials said Monday... Read More