No sign of 3 men missing in mudslide

No sign of 3 men missing in mudslide

COLLBRAN, Colo.

Rescue teams failed to find any sign Monday of three men missing after a ridge saturated with rain collapsed, sending mud sliding for 3 miles in a remote part of western Colorado.

Clancy Nichols, 51, a county road and bridge employee, his son Danny, 24, and Wes Hawkins, 46, have been missing since Sunday after the ridge collapsed. They went to check on damage from an initial slide near the edge of Grand Mesa, one of the world’s largest flat-topped mountains, after a rancher reported that his irrigation ditch had stopped flowing, Mesa County Sheriff Stan Hilkey said.

Tornado damages trailers at N.D. camp

WATFORD CITY, N.D.

The National Weather Service says a tornado has severely damaged about 15 trailers at a man camp in North Dakota’s oil patch.

It was unclear if anyone was injured when the tornado hit the camp about 5 miles south of Watford City, in the west of the state.

Tuskegee Airmen meet bomber pilot

BIG FLATS, N.Y.

The last time Bill Strapko and Roscoe C. Brown crossed paths, they were in separate warplanes trying to survive one of the most famous bombing missions in Europe during World War II.

A Memorial Day weekend reunion of some of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen brought the two New Yorkers together nearly 70 years after their units flew from southern Italy to the heart of Nazi Germany to attack Berlin. Strapko, 95, of North Tonawanda, was invited to Saturday’s Return of the Red Tails celebration at the Wings of Eagles Discovery Center in Big Flats, near Elmira, The Buffalo News reported.

Six former Tuskegee Airmen, America’s first black military pilots, attended the event. Among them was Roscoe C. Brown Jr., 92, of New York City, commander of the fighter squadron that escorted Strapko’s formation of B-17 Flying Fortresses during the mission to Berlin on March 24, 1945.

Pro-military fervor at polls as Egyptians vote

CAIRO

Egypt’s presidential election Monday turned into a nationalist celebration at many polls with voters singing and dancing for the almost certain winner — former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who last year ousted the first freely elected president.

But the first day of voting in the two-day election also illustrated the bitter divisions that have riven Egypt since the military’s removal of Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi. In towns where Islamists dominate, voting was often thin or non-existent.

The 59-year-old retired Field Marshal el-Sissi is looking for more than a landslide victory from the election. He’s hoping for a strong turnout to show international critics that his July 3 ouster of Morsi reflected the will of the people.

Gunmen kill US doctor in Pakistan

LAHORE, Pakistan

Gunmen in Pakistan shot dead a visiting American cardiologist from the minority Ahmadi sect in front of his wife and toddler son Monday as they left a cemetery after visiting relatives’ graves, police said.

The two gunmen riding a motorcycle shot Mehdi Ali Qamar 10 times at close range in the central town of Chanab Nagar, police officer Shaukat Ali said, adding that Qamar’s wife and son were not harmed. He is survived by two other sons.

Associated Press