Helicopter articles

  • Helicopter crash reported in Anaconda

    A helicopter crashed in Anaconda Friday morning and the coroner has been called to the crash site, according to Anaconda Chief Executive Bill Everett.
  • Military training involving helicopters planned

    MUSCATATUCK URBAN TRAINING CENTER — Units at Guardian Response, Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Jackson County, will conduct training on Monday, and continuing on May 1 and 2 involving transporting simulated patients or mannequins by HH-60M Black Hawk helicopters and field litter ambulance (FLA) trucks to two community hospitals. Continue reading at The Republic News.
  • In defense of helicopter parents: Why we're right to be anxious

    This column is the latest in a series on parenting children in the final years of high school, “Emptying the Nest.” Read the previous installment, about relearning how to be alone at home, here. I recently saw a headline in the New York Times that I thought was the answer to my prayers: “Anxious Parents Are the Ones Who Need Help.” Yes, please, I thought, hoping to find acknowledgment of all the very real forces that can turn any parent into an anxious mess. Things like school shootings,...