F-16 strafes school in Jersey
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An Air National Guard fighter jet on a training mission fired eight high-powered cannon rounds through the roof of an Ocean County elementary school Wednesday night.
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WESTWOOD -- Inside the New England Sports Academy, a group of girls gracefully leaped and tumbled across mats. They were dressed in colorful, sparkly leotards, their hair tightly wound in buns. Their practice last week was more than routine. It was the equivalent of a dress rehearsal before the young gymnasts make their national debut.
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For 34 years, Foster Cass patrolled the sidelines for the Duxbury boys' soccer team. After a brief retirement last year, Cass returned to Duxbury yesterday, this time as coach of Pembroke (5-10), in its first year as a high school.
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A teenager who took her campaign to study GCSE French to the prime minister has won her battle.
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The military shows its love for unmanned aerial vehicles.
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It&#39;s a day for final back-to-school preparations, for heading south from a summer at the cottage or a day for football games between old rivals.
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A DC Air National Guard fighter jet based at Andrews Air Force Base fired several rounds of ammunition that pierced the roof of a school in southern New Jersey, authorities said yesterday.
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Navy had one opening, one sliver of a chance to make it a game against Notre Dame yesterday. After the Midshipmen drove 81 yards for a field goal midway through the
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Colorado Springs, CO -- Geoff Blumenfeld made his first field goal of the season, a 30-yarder with four seconds left, as Navy earned a dramatic 24-21 road win over rival Air Force at Falcon Stadium.
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LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, NJ -- Calling the accidental strafing of a school by an Air National Guard fighter jet &quot;totally incomprehensible,&quot; an angry Sen. Frank Lautenberg on Friday demanded a guarantee that nothing similar could ever happen again.
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Not content after winning the Division 1 North final for the first time in school history, the Andover's girls' tennis team beat Longmeadow, 4-1, to win the Division 1 state championship at Shrewsbury High School yesterday.
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Just a few years ago, Lance Cpl. Steven Szwydek was a classmate of students at a high school in the mountains of Pennsylvania's Fulton County.
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Residents angry that an Air National Guard F-16 strafed an intermediate school last week castigated the military Monday night, demanding it cease live-fire operations at a nearby target range.
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The Air Force has concluded that pilot error and a poorly designed aircraft control caused an F-16 pilot to fire 27 rounds of 20mm ammunition, some of which struck a New Jersey elementary school, according to a report obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
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Fifteen sea eagle chicks aged between four and eight weeks are being flown to RAF Kinloss today by the Norwegian Air Force, as part of a plan to reintroduce them to the Scottish landscape.
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My British school days were a kindergarten Battle of the Bulge. I grew up, half German, a generation after the Second World War and my school friends fought the Hun in the playground every lunchtime.
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An Airbus A380 super jumbo performs its demonstration flight at the 46th International Paris Air Show at Le Bouget airport, north of Paris, in this June 16, 2005 file photo.Comment