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A heavy-lift helicopter with five Marines headed from Nevada to an air base in California Tuesday night has gone missing, authorities said early Wednesday morning. The helicopter, a CH-53E Super Stallion, had departed from Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, just outside Las Vegas, Nev. and it was bound to the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, in San Diego, Calif., according to a statement from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. When the aircraft was reported “overdue” in the early hours of Wednesday, the Marines initiated a search for the missing chopper. The Super Stallion was last seen over......

At least four people were dead and others missing after a boat ferrying more than a dozen people sank off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula near Cancun, according to reports. The Goddess of the Sea — or La Diosa del Mar — was journeying from the resort island of Isla Mujeres to nearby Puerto Juárez when the incident occurred on Monday shortly after 6 p.m. Officials told ABC News the vessel caught a strong sea swell and started taking on water in the moments before it went down. A total of 19 people — 16 tourists and three crew members — were aboard at the time. Two adult males, one adult female and o......

WASHINGTON — Rep. Eric Burlison wants to know the truth about aliens. In his first term in Congress, the Missouri Republican is pushing the federal government to reveal more about unidentified aerial phenomenon, the new term for what used to be called UFOs. But in an interview with The Star after he received a classified briefing about UAPs on Friday, Burlison said he’s no closer to answering the big questions he had before entering Congress. “There’s nothing that’s been said that’s changed my worldview,” Burlison said. “I believe the veracity of the claims of the people who testified in the p......

COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the second time in little more than a week a drill sergeant was found dead at Fort Jackson, the U.S. Army said Monday. The body of Staff Sgt. Zachary L. Melton, a 30-year-old with the 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, was discovered on Saturday at Fort Jackson, Army officials said in a news release. After he failed to report to work, an unresponsive Melton was found in his vehicle, according to the release. The Directorate of Emergency Services were called, and Emergency Medical Services personnel pronounced Melton dead shortly after arriving, officials said. On Dec. ......

The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Kansan Richard Federico to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, filling a seat that has been vacant for nearly two years. Federico, who has served as a federal public defender in Kansas since 2017, was nominated by President Joe Biden in July. He also worked as a military judge in the Navy Reserve Trial Judiciary and served in the Navy’s JAG corps both as a prosecutor and as a defense attorney. “I appreciated the opportunity to meet with him in Kansas and Washington, D.C., to discuss his commitment to practice judicial restraint by rel......

A letter penned by Robert Card, an Army Reservist accused of killing 18 people in shootings at a Maine bowling alley and bar, appears to be a suicide note of sorts, according to several reports. Maine Commissioner of Public Safety Michael Sauschuck on Friday confirmed investigators discovered the letter during a search of a Bowdoin residence that has been linked to 40-year-old Card. He declined to provide further details, but a law enforcement source told CNN it appeared the suspected shooter did not expect to be alive by the time it was found. Reportedly addressed to Card’s son, the note incl......