One of the two pilots of a vintage military plane that was delivering heating oil to a remote Alaska Native village reported a fire on board shortly before the aircraft crashed and burned outside Fairbanks, killing both of them and leaving debris over a wide area, a federal transportation official said Wednesday. The pilot made radio contact about the in-flight emergency shortly after taking off Tuesday, said Clint Johnson, head of the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska regional office.
A physical therapist in Arizona, Dr. Walter Foxcroft, died after a flash fire sparked in a hyperbaric chamber at his office, Havasu Health and Hyperbarics, while he was still inside on Wednesday, acco...
The State Department informed U.S.-based employees on Thursday that it would soon be laying off nearly 2,000 workers as part of a reorganization plan....