With America’s women ice hockey players threatening a World Championships boycott, 14 US senators have written to USA Hockey urging them to treat the women’s national team fairly. Members of the reigning world champion US women’s team said this month that they would not play in the World Championships that open on Friday in Plymouth, … Read more
All nine people aboard a helicopter that crashed during a mountain rescue drill in Japan over the weekend were killed, police said Monday. Six bodies were found in the morning inside the wreckage in the central prefecture of Nagano, a Nagano police spokesman told AFP. Three others, including the pilot, were confirmed dead on Sunday … Read more
A helicopter conducting a mountain rescue exercise crashed with nine local officials aboard in Japan on Sunday and at least three people are feared dead, officials and media reports said. A police helicopter located the crashed helicopter on a snowy mountainside in Nagano prefecture in central Japan, public broadcaster NHK and other media reported. “We’ve … Read more