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NEWSOM’s non-engagement strategy — COX bears down — SF, LA to YELLOW tiers — GARCETTI to INDIA? — MCCARTHY distances from CHENEY Presented by Facebook On the day two Republican rivals unveiled flashy new campaigns — and the media magnet of a real, live bear — Gov. Gavin Newsom demonstrated again that his main strategy is to ignore them. Newsom joined firefighter allies for his first official anti-recall event, but he wasn’t interested in talking about his opponents. Reporters a...

Red Bank pilot, soldiers honored 59 years after plane vanished on the way to Vietnam Filmmaker Ken Burns visits the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial Replay Video UP NEXT Capt. Gregory Thomas was a 48-year-old pilot with nearly 20,000 flight hours under his belt. Described as “colorful and heroic,” he flew with the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II and later safely landed a cargo plane on a beach after all four engines quit. He lived on a 55-foot yacht in Red Bank. On March 16, 19...

Capt. Gregory Thomas was a 48-year-old pilot with nearly 20,000 flight hours under his belt. Described as “colorful and heroic,” he flew with the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II and later safely landed a cargo plane on a beach after all four engines quit. He lived on a 55-foot yacht in Red Bank. On March 16, 1962, he was at the controls for one of the biggest tragedies — and mysteries — in U.S. aviation history. Early that morning Thomas was piloting Flying Tiger Line Flight 739...

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Alfred Vanranst, 36, Boston, MA, operating after license suspension on Feb. 21, 2013, dismissed. Michael Watson, 40, Prairieville, LA, operating after license suspension on March 20, 2013, dismissed. David F. Paquette, 43, Mexico, gross sexual assault on Nov. 28, 2012, probation revocation, sentenced to 18 years with all but three years suspended, probation 10 years. Christine E. Mitchell, 35, Portland, operating vehicle without license on Aug. 12, 2013, dismissed. Todd H. Thykeson, 50, Gladehi...

SC man was on top secret Army flight lost at sea. Families still wonder why they died Lyn Riddle, The State (Columbia, S.C.) Apr. 29—The full-length bronze memorial on the empty grave in Pickens hints at how Ross Walker died. "Perished over the Pacific Ocean," says the marker at Hillcrest Memorial Park. That is all the Walker family and the families of 92 other servicemen aboard Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 know. The military charter jet on route to Saigon was lost over the de...

By LYN RIDDLE | The State | Published: April 29, 2021 (Tribune News Service) — The full-length bronze memorial on the empty grave in Pickens, S.C., hints at how Ross Walker died. "Perished over the Pacific Ocean," says the marker at Hillcrest Memorial Park. That is all the Walker family and the families of 92 other service members aboard Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 know. The military charter jet on route to Saigon was lost over the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean on March 1...

Tiara Brown has made a hobby out of hitting hard. The Fort Myers High School graduate and once-aspiring Olympic boxer also has been hit hard, literally by opponents and figuratively by the death of George Floyd, his neck under the knee for more than nine minutes of a police officer who is on trial for murder in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Brown, who was named the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s Officer of the Year out of more than 3,000 officers in 2018, said she felt friction b...

Bay Briefing: How a year of coexisting with COVID changed our lives FacebookTwitterEmail Nurse LeShay Brown gives California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly the COVID-19 vaccine.Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Monday, March 15, and all of the Bay Area’s nine counties have advanced into the red reopening tier. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. The year that upended our lives One year ago, our understanding of a mysterious n...