WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Force Sergeant White S. Goings Jr., 22, of Auburn, Nebraska, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for June 27, 2023. In late 1942, Goings was a member of the 93rd Bombardment Squadron (Bomb Sq), 19th Bombardment Group (Bomb Gp), when Japanese forces  more

OFFUTT AFB, Nebraska, Nov. 6 -- The U.S. Air Force Offutt Air Force Base (55th Air Wing) issued the following news: The 55th Operations Support Squadron's survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists, better known as SERE, joined with the Nebraska Army National Guard to conduct hoist training November 4, 2023. Company G, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 104th Regiment flew a UH-60 Blackhawk from Lincoln to Offutt, which enabled personnel from both units to carry out some mandato  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, Nov. 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release: A former bank branch manager in Kansas City, Mo., has pleaded guilty in federal court to accepting Kansas City Chiefs playoffs tickets and a new Chevrolet Tahoe in exchange for facilitating a $12.4 million Covid fraud scheme by a Jefferson City, Mo., business owner, as well as a separate fraud scheme to receive unemployment benefits. Anthony Omar Brockman,  more