The U.S. Marine who went missing during a training exercise off the coast of Southern California has been declared dead, authorities announced on Monday.
According to California Highway Patrol, the explosive ordinance that was fired over the freeway detonated overhead prematurely, striking and damaging a patrol vehicle.
A 17-mile stretch of Southern California freeway was shut down Saturday because of a military event involving live ammunition at Camp Pendleton.
Parents of a U.S. Marine were detained by federal immigration officials and one of them was later deported after visiting family members at Camp Pendleton.
After a week in Israeli custody, an Illinois Marine veteran who was detained while on a humanitarian flotilla headed to Gaza flew to Chicago's O'Hare Airport Wednesday. Her attorney says detainees were zip tied, denied food and water and questioned for days.
The mother of an Illinois Marine veteran who was on one of the boats that was heading to Gaza to bring aid to starving Palestinians spoke with ABC7 Chicago after Israel's military intercepted the humanitarian aid flotilla.