Spokeswoman Corinne Geller says 54-year-old pilot Joseph D. Brown IV and his wife, 52-year-old Susan D. Brown, died when a single-engine Cessna 210 crashed in a James City County subdivision. Their dog also died in the crash. There were no other passengers on the plane.

Virginia and Nebraska media outlets identified Joseph Brown as an Air Force major general. They said he was an official at the National Defense University in Washington and formerly was assigned to U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.

Geller says the crash occurred at 4:53 p.m. Friday near the Williamsburg-Jamestown Airport.

The search for an Oklahoma teenager who set out to test himself against the wilderness in the wilds of southeastern Oregon has been suspended indefinitely until conditions improve.

Sheriff Dave Glerup of Harney County, Ore., said Sunday that no search is planned until weather improves and snow begins to melt, allowing searchers to comb Steens Mountain.

Nineteen-year-old Dustin Self has been missing a month since setting out from his family home outside Oklahoma City.

Weather forced cancelled searches on Friday and Saturday.

Glerup says Self’s parents arrived at the scene Saturday and were taken to the location where Self’s pickup truck was found.

Glerup says he thinks Self is either dead or walked off the mountain and hitched a ride somewhere. He says they’ll decide by the week whether to resume the search, depending on weather.

 

The FBI is disputing a claim by the mother of the suspected Boston bombers, who said the bureau had spoken to the older brother after the bombs exploded at last Monday’s marathon.

At FBI headquarters in Washington, spokesman Michael Kortan says the bureau’s 2011 interview with Tamerlan Tsarnaev (tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) was the only FBI contact with him.

Kortan is standing by the bureau’s public statement from Friday in which the bureau described that interview. That statement says the FBI did not learn of the identities of the bombing suspects, Tamerlan and his brother, Dzhokhar (joh-KHAR’), until Friday, the day Tamerlan was killed.

The brothers’ parents in Russia have insisted that the FBI continued to monitor Tamerlan after the 2011 interview and say both of their sons were set up.

Authorities say two men are dead and another hospitalized in a one-car crash near Lincoln.

The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says the crashed happened just before 6:30 a.m. Saturday on a county road near Branched Oak Lake north of Lincoln.

Investigators say the car was westbound when it left the road and rolled several times.

Two passengers in the car — 24-year-old Chad Spencer and 24-year-old Ryan Bostock, both of Lincoln — were found dead at the scene of the crash. The driver, 24-year-old Joshua Fagan, of Lincoln, was flown to a Lincoln hospital with injuries not considered to be life-threatening.

The sheriff’s office says no arrests have been made, but that speed and alcohol use are believed to have contributed to the crash.

A Nebraska woman was killed in a rollover accident on Interstate 80 this weekend that also injured four other people.

The York County Sheriff’s office says 26-year-old Daniela Testa of Omaha died in the one-vehicle crash Saturday morning. The crash happened near the Waco exit on I-80.

Officials say the rear tire of the vehicle blew out, and the vehicle hit a culvert before rolling.

Four other people besides Testa were in the vehicle.

One was flown to an area hospital for treatment and the others were taken by ambulance. Their conditions weren’t immediately available Sunday.

 

Authorities have recovered the bodies of five snowboarders who were killed in a backcountry avalanche on Colorado’s Loveland Pass.

Clear Creek County Sheriff Don Krueger said multiple search and rescue crews located the bodies Saturday. A sixth snowboarder was caught in the slide. That person’s condition was unknown.

Krueger said authorities are pretty certain the snowboarders triggered the avalanche, which he said was about 600 yards wide and eight feet deep.

A doctor involved in treating the Boston Marathon bombing suspect who died in a gun-battle with police says he had injuries head to toe and all limbs intact when he arrived at the hospital.

Dr. David Schoenfeld (SHOW’-en-feld) says 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev was unconscious and had so many penetrating wounds that it isn’t clear which ones killed him. The doctor says a medical examiner will have to determine the cause of death.

Schoenfeld says the suspect was in cardiac arrest and lost a pulse as soon as he arrived at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center following a shootout with police in the Boston suburb of Watertown early Friday. Doctors tried numerous treatments for about 15 minutes before pronouncing him dead.

A photo of the Tsarnaev’s body was leaked to the celebrity gossip website TMZ.

The doctor said “we did everything we could” to try to save his life.

A Johnson County deputy was injured when he lost control of his patrol vehicle and slid into an oncoming truck.

Johnson County Attorney Julie D. Smith says deputy Andrew Schroeder was driving eastbound on Highway 41 about noon Friday in response to a call to assist another deputy when he lost control of his vehicle. Schroeder crashed into the truck and had to be extricated from the patrol vehicle.

Schroeder was flown by medical helicopter to a hospital in Lincoln, where he was listed in fair condition.

The only sedate place in Boston after the arrest of the surviving marathon bombing suspect may have been the spot were Monday’s tragedy unfolded.

Dozens gathered Friday near where the twin bombs exploded to pay solemn tribute to the three killed and more than 180 wounded in the explosions.

Celebrations erupted in many other communities including suburban Watertown where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (JOH’-kahr tsahr-NY’-ev) was taken into custody after being found hiding in a boat parked in the backyard of a home.

The jubilation was widespread. The mayor of Boston tweeted, “We got him!” And at the home of the New York Mets, fans leapt to their feet and cheered.

Nebraska residents will get a shot at hunting for a bull elk this year when an elk hunting tag is auctioned off at the Nebraska Big Game Society annual meeting and dinner.

The dinner will be held Thursday evening at Wilderness Ridge in Lincoln.

Other auction items include Canadian and Alaskan fishing trips and a lifetime hunting/fishing permit with habitat stamp.

There also will be discussions about bighorn sheep, elk and mountain lion populations, as well as 2013 projects.

Those interested in attending may contact Jon Thomas at 402-430-9191. Visitwww.nebiggame.org for more information about the organization.