Search called off for 3 US Marines who crashed off Australia

U.S. military officials called off a search and rescue operation on Sunday for three U.S. Marines who were missing after their Osprey aircraft crashed into the sea off the east coast of Australia while trying to land. The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps suspended the rescue operation and launched a recovery effort instead, the Marine base Camp Butler in Japan said in a statement, essentially confirming the military does not expect to find the missing Marines alive.

Search called off for 3 U.S. Marines who crashed off Australia

This image from the U.S. Marine Corps shows three MV-22B Osprey aircraft flying in formation above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Sydney, Australia, on June 29, 2017. This image from the U.S. Marine Corps shows three MV-22B Osprey aircraft flying in formation above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Sydney, Australia, on June 29, 2017.

Three US Marines missing after military aircraft ‘mishap’ off Australia

The MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor is the primary assault support aircraft for the Marines, with two engines positioned on fixed wing tips that allow it to land and take off vertically AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS ==JAPAN OUT== AFP/JIJI PRESS SYDNEY: The US Marine Corps said on Saturday that a major search and rescue operation was underway for three missing service members following a "mishap" involving an American military aircraft off the Australian coast. US Marines based in Japan said "search and rescue operations continue for three U.S. Marines that were aboard an MV-22 Osprey involved in a mishap off of the east coast of Australia".

Reince Priebus given the boot from presidential motorcade

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Boat captain leaps into sea to save crew after capsizing

In this still image from video taken on Monday, July 24, 2017, by the Coast Guard, the captain of the fishing vessel Grayling, left, rescues one of his crewmen after the vessel capsized in the Kupreanof Strait near Raspberry Island, Alaska,. The captain jumped into cold, choppy waters to save two of his crew members after their vessel capsized off the Alaska coast.

FBI, Coast Guard investigate newlywed’s sea disappearance

When the Coast Guard found Lewis Bennett on a life raft between Florida and the Bahamas, he told rescuers that about three hours earlier he had been asleep inside the cabin of the catamaran he shared with his new bride, Isabella Hellmann, and was jolted awake when the craft hit something. He said he went up top and found Hellmann gone.

Man left with broken leg after boat collision

Darien Police are investigating a boat accident where two vessels collided on the Long Island Sound during a Sunday morning outing, leaving one of the passengers with serious injuries. On June 25 around 9:45 a.m., a 36-foot power-operated sailboat collided with a 20-foot boat when the 40-year-old Jersey City man operating the sailboat - the lone occupant - left the boat running to retrieve an item below deck.

5 things you need to know Thursday

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Justices could take up high-stakes fight over electoral maps

In an era of deep partisan division, the Supreme Court could soon decide whether the drawing of electoral districts can be too political. A dispute over Wisconsin's Republican-drawn boundaries for the state legislature offers Democrats some hope of cutting into GOP electoral majorities across the United States.

Search for 7 Navy sailors ends after bodies found on ship

The search for seven U.S. Navy sailors who went missing after their destroyer collided with a container ship off the Japanese coast was called off after several bodies were found Sunday in the ship's flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters. Navy divers found "a number of" bodies in the USS Fitzgerald, a day after the destroyer collided with a Philippine-flagged container ship four times its size, said Vice Adm.

US, Japan search for 7 Navy sailors, puzzle over ship crash

A Japan Coast Guard baot goes along with the damaged USS Fitzgerald near the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, after the U.S. destroyer collided with the Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal in the waters off the Izu Peninsula Saturday, June 17, 2017. Crew members from the destroyer USS Dewey were helping stabilize the damaged USS Fitzgerald after its collision off the coast of Japan before dawn Saturday, leaving seven sailors missing and at least three injured.

Seven US destroyer crew missing, commander hurt in crash off Japan

Seven US sailors were missing and a skipper injured after their Navy destroyer collided with a container ship off the coast of Japan early Saturday, with the badly damaged US vessel partially flooded. Aerial television footage showed one sailor lying on a stretcher and a rescuer being pulled up to a helicopter that was hovering above the USS Fitzgerald, its right side partially crushed.