An elderly Kansas couple that set out on an eight-hour trip from Kansas to Illinois to visit family on Monday afternoon has not been heard from since.Police are asking for the public’s help in locating Vernon Hunt, 92, and his wife Goldie, 81, of Garnett, Kan. The couple left their house early Monday morning to visit Goldie’s twin sister in Dwight, Ill. When they never arrived, the couple’s son Ja...

The FBI has called off the dig for Jimmy Hoffa in a suburban Detroit field where a tipster insisted he was buried alive.No human remains were found during three days of excavation, officials said.The feds were led to the site by Tony Zerilli, who claims he was told the Teamsters Boss was whacked with a shovel and then entombed beneath concrete slabs in a barn."I know he's there," Tony Zerilli told...

Two days of digging in a suburban Detroit field has not turned up any sign of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa's remains, but the tipster who sent the FBI there insists it is the burial site."I know he's there," Tony Zerilli told NBC News. "I'm not wrong."Since Hoffa vanished in 1975, authorities have searched dozens of spots for his body. Informants have claimed he was entombed at Giants Stadium, fed to...

Hundreds of people were evacuated in Arizona on Tuesday after a wind-whipped wildfire spread across 5,000 acres in just seven hours.More than 300 firefighters, along with multiple helicopters and aircraft, moved in to tackle the “extreme” blaze which started in “remote, rugged terrain” on the east side of Granite Mountain near Prescott, Arizona, officials said.Authorities told The Associated Press...

President Barack Obama proposed reducing the American nuclear arsenal by as much as a third on Wednesday, directing the Defense Department to align the United States with what the administration says are the more credible threats of the 21st century.The proposal outlined by Obama in a speech in Berlin includes the maintenance of a “strong and credible strategic deterrent,” and will instruct the De...

Massachusetts police visited the home of star New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Tuesday, about a mile away from an industrial park where a body was found the night before.Sports Illustrated, citing an unnamed source, reported that Hernandez was not being questioned as a suspect in the death but that an SUV rented in his name was a key piece of evidence in the investigation.The maga...