It was learned a passenger wrote a goodbye letter to his family aboard the medical plane that crashed into Lake Michigan on Friday, killing 4 out of the 5 occupants.
An Afghan military officer opened fire at an air force base in the Afghan capital on late Wednesday morning, officials said, killing at least nine people and injuring others.
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