Tag: Search and rescue efforts
Lost to mountain, Japanese internee’s bones return home
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — When Giichi Matsumura arrived at his final resting place in late December, the people who knew him best when he...
Rescue operation underway in Black Sea after coal ship sinks
BUCHAREST, Romania — A rescue operation is underway in the Black Sea after a coal cargo ship sank, leaving two dead and one missing,...
Zion National Park search for woman cost $60K, report says
SALT LAKE CITY — A search for a California woman who was missing for two weeks last fall at Zion National Park in Utah...
Spain rescues migrant boat, investigates reported deaths
MADRID — Authorities in Spain’s Canary Islands off northwest Africa rescued a boat carrying 48 migrants, including one who was recovered dead, and police...
Spain rescues migrant boat, investigates reported deaths
MADRID — Authorities in Spain’s Canary Islands off northwest Africa rescued a boat carrying 48 migrants, including one who was recovered dead, and police...
Crocodile hunt: Search on for escaped reptiles in S. Africa
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Police and conservation officers were searching Friday for an unknown number of young crocodiles that escaped earlier in the...
Tonywatch: Elizabeth Stanley seeks ‘healing and connection’
NEW YORK — A short time after Broadway shut down last year, Elizabeth Stanley went on a tiny rescue mission.
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Turkey: Woman drops kids from window to save them from fire
ISTANBUL — A woman rescued her four children from a burning building in Istanbul by throwing them out of a window, and all of...
Former Polish dissident Litynski drowns trying to save dog
WARSAW, Poland — Rescue officials were searching Monday for the body of Jan Litynski, a Polish communist-era dissident and democracy-era politician who drowned in...
Moderate quake injures at least 10 people in central Iran
TEHRAN, Iran — A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck central Iran on Wednesday, injuring at least 10 people, Iranian media reported.
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