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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
LEMOORE, Calif.
A Navy fighter pilot presumed dead after two jets crashed in the far western Pacific Ocean has been identified.
The pilot was Lt. Nathan Poloski, a 26-year-old native of Lake Arrowhead, the Navy said Sunday.
Poloski was the subject of a 36-hour search in the waters off the U.S. territory of Wake Island after two F/A-18C Hornets collided in midair Friday. The other pilot safely ejected, was rescued from the ocean by helicopter and was treated and released from medical facilities aboard the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson.
OAKHURST, Calif.
Two out-of-control wildfires in California forced hundreds of residents to flee from their homes on Sunday, including one near a lakeside resort town that has destroyed several structures, authorities said.
The blaze, sparked shortly after 1:30 p.m. near Bass Lake in Central California, prompted authorities to evacuate about 1,000 residents out of 400 homes, Madera County Sheriff's spokeswoman Erika Stuart said.
Police say six people were injured, one critically, in a shooting outside a bar in Alaska, and the suspects remain at large.
A group of family members and friends was outside the Kodiak Bar and Grill in Anchorage at 4:25 a.m. Sunday when one of the family members and the suspects began arguing. Moments later shots were fired.
CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico
A powerful Hurricane Odile closed in on the resort area of Los Cabos on Sunday night as Mexican authorities evacuated vulnerable coastal areas and readied shelters for up to 30,000 people.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Odile's core was on a track to cross onto the south end of Baja California late Sunday and move near or over the southern portion of the peninsula Monday.
The lawyer for a Massachusetts woman arrested after the bodies of three infants were found in her home said Sunday that he's optimistic that forensic testing will show the babies weren't born alive, and therefore weren't harmed or killed by his client.
Erika Murray, 31, was charged Friday with fetal death concealment and other counts after authorities found the bodies in her squalid, vermin-infested home in Blackstone, a town near the Rhode Island border and about 50 miles southwest of Boston. A medical examiner is determining whether the remains were newborns or fetuses, and how they died.
SEATAC, Wash.
Public health officials are warning that people may have been exposed to measles at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
In a news release, Public Health-Seattle & King County officials say a passenger who contracted a confirmed case of the disease was contagious when he or she was at the airport. The passenger was at the north satellite terminal, on the inter-terminal train and at baggage claim between 8:10 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. on Sept. 6.
BRIEFLY ...
• FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Two boys missing in rugged forest north of Rocky Mountain National Park were found alive and well. Larimer County officials say the boys, ages 11 and 12, were separated from their group while hunting small game.
Compiled from wire reports