New York's Fixed Wing Aviators Gear Up for Afghanistan Deployment

New York National Guard Story by Canadian Forces Sgt Steven PetiboneDate: 02.27.2009 ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. - Four New York Army National Guard aviation Soldiers got a taste of high-altitude flying in...

Steve Fossett's plane found, body parts nearby

Update 10/02/08 4:04pm PST:  Body parts have been found near the wreckage of, what is now confirmed to be, the Bellanca single-engine plane that Steve Fossett was flying the day he...

Gaps In McCain's Military Record Raise Questions

""At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined...

Cate Blanchett As Queen Elizabeth In 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age'

"Finally, Queen Cate reigns again in Hollywood. Almost 10 years after her breakout performance as Elizabeth I - the role that introduced Cate Blanchett to Hollywood and bestowed on her the aura of thespian nobility - she has resumed the throne. Blanchett took her time to give...

Why is Steve Fossett So Hard To Find?

"Steve Fossett cannot possibly have disappeared into thin air. But for now, it seems that way. More than a week after he took off on a routine flight in western Nevada, there is still no sign of him or his...

3 aviators declared dead in ocean crash

"NORFOLK, Va. — Three aviators on a twin-engine radar plane that crashed off North Carolina's coast have died, the Navy said Friday. Search crews found debris from the E-2C Hawkeye turbo prop plane but no...

Dude, where's my cross?

Once part of the cast of the ultimate movie the Usual Suspects, Stephen Baldwin is now an "Unusual Suspect" the protagonist in his new book with the same name.  Salon.com quotes him at a recent live...

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