Closing in on her much dreaded date before the judge, Lindsay Lohan is set to appear in court on Friday (October 22) for her probation violation hearing. Stemming from two failed drug tests, the “Georgia Rule” actress will leave the Betty Ford Center to find out whether she’s headed back to jail or facing a continued rehab Read the rest of this entry

C-17s have survived missile attacks in Iraq and pilot mishaps in Aghanistan without casualty in recent years, including a surface-to-air hit in Baghdad in 2003 and a 2009 incident at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan where a C-17 landed on its belly – with its landing gears disabled.

A C-17A assigned to the service’s 3rd Wing at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska crashed on the base at 18:14 local time yesterday while “on a local training mission”, the service confirms.

Callers to the Olney Police Department said they saw a low-flying plane, and a spokesman for Sheppard AFB initially reported a crash, but then retracted the report.

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