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Police arrested a 52-year-old Airway Heights woman Thursday on suspicion of possessing multiple explosives. The woman, Angela Andreas-Miller, faces eight potential charges of manufacturing, possessing or disposing of an incendiary device, arrest records show. Airway Heights police found one device in her apartment at 13660 W. 6th Ave., according to a news release from the department. They found seven more in her car. Police first arrived at the residence to serve a search warrant for alleged identity theft when they found a device, the release said. Those living in the apartment complex were evacuated as a precaution. Court records say...

PALMDALE (CBSLA.com) — A Palmdale mother of a seven-month-old son was one of three airman killed in a Central Asia tanker plane crash Friday. The tanker was supporting American troops in Afghanistan. Capt. Victoria “Tori” A. Pinckney, 27, was killed in the crash of a KC-135 tanker near Chon-Aryk, Krygyzstan, the Defense Department announced. KKTV, a Colorado Springs CBS affiliate, reports that Pinckney was a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and recent mom. She was one of three airmen in a KC-135 refueling plane that crashed in the mountains after a midair explosion during a refueling operation, the...