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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 on the one-acre parcel, officials said."We're disappointed," said Robert Foley, head of the FBI's Detroit office.The feds were led to the site by Tony Zerilli, who claims he was told the Teamsters Boss was whacked with a...
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...
Thousands rallied Monday outside the Peabody Energy headquarters in St. Louis, and 12 were arrested for nonviolent civil disobedience. The rally protested cuts Patriot Coal is scheduled to make after July 1 to retiree health care benefits of former Peabody workers. The workers' benefits were spun off into Patriot in what Mine Workers (UMWA) President Cecil Roberts says was an intentional plan to get out of obligations made to them.
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...
