Nine missing U. S. airmen from World War II have been identified by the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO). The Pentagon says 2nd Lt. Hugh L. Johnson Jr. , Montgomery, Ala. ; 2nd Lt. Byron L. Stenen, Northridge, Calif. ; 2nd Lt. John F. Green, Watertown, N. Y. ; 2nd Lt. John M. Meisner, Pembroke, Mass. ; Staff Sgt. Walter Knudsen, Sioux City, Iowa; Cpl. John A. DeCarlo, Newark, N. J. ; Cpl. Robert E. Raney, Monon, Ind. ; Cpl. William G. Mohr, Mt. Wolf, Pa. ; and Cpl. Michael J. Pushkar, Mahanoy City, Pa; will be returned to their families for burial with full military honors.

A man's childhood note that has been bottled-up for years and put into a lake for a class project surfaced just one year after his death. The message has been returned to his mother. According to the AP, the message written eleven years ago, by a then 10-year-old Joshua Baker surfaced in February, a year after his death following a motor vehicle accident in California. He had recently returned home after serving in the Middle East as a U. S. Marine.

The four year old Kangaroo who had been attacked by a wolf last year has undergone plastic surgery by Los Angeles-based surgeon, Theodore Corwin, better known for performing face-lifts, tummy tucks, breast enhancements and other cosmetic procedures on humans. The surgeon spent two hours operating the marsupial, named Feznik, who lives on a Californian farm for Hollywood animals used at corporate events, in movies and advertisements.

Hollywood Kangaroo undergoes plastic surgery to fix a toothy smile given courtesy of a wolf bite on the lip. Feznick's owner Eadie McMullan has high hops for his kangaroo making it in Hollywood.

The Los Angeles TimesThe story quoted Wyoming's governor as saying his state "now considers the wolf as a federal dog" which doesn't need protection.