Authorities are checking out open mine shafts in Picher, Oklahoma as part of their latest search efforts for missing Welch girls, Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible. The two girls went missing back in December 1999.
A firefighter who died on September 11 was laid to rest Tuesday after his remains were identified 18 years later.
Bryan Knight was 5 years old when he said goodbye to his father at an airport in Dallas, Texas, just before he was sent off to the Vietnam War.
The remains of 30 US Marines and Navy service members lost since a bloody WWII battle in the South Pacific have been found on remote Tarawa Atoll, an organization that recovers lost US service members said.
Three Joplin veterans, spanning World War I and World War II, are laid to rest after nearly 40 years of being forgotten.
