An Iraq war veteran who was an unexpected hero on Friday when he dragged a woman from the burning wreckage of a small plane and saved her life tragically died from his own injuries.

Former marine Austin Anderson was traveling in the eight-seater twin-engine Cessna 401 plane with Hannah Luce and three other friends when they crashed in rural Kansas shortly after taking off from Tulsa.

The American soldier who is accused of murdering 16 Afghan civilians will be tried in the U.S., despite attempts in the victims' homeland to have him face a court in Afghanistan.

Sergeant Robert Bales was flown back to America last weekend and met with his lawyer for the first time on Monday at a military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he remains in pre-trial isolation awaiting charges that may carry the death penalty.

With so many women vying for Ben Flajnik's attention, The Bachelor contestants have to be quick-witted and be fast on their feet, and the new issue of Star magazine exclusively reveals that Casey Shteamer shouldn't have any problem judging by her July 2004 encounter with rocker Gavin DeGraw and his band.

The Kansas native was nearly 19 when she and a friend were invited onto Gavin’s tour bus at 2 a.m. after a concert, reveals Star.

“We all talked for a little with him, and his bandmates were there,” Casey wrote in her public diary on xanga.com. “Then [one of Casey’s friends] and Gavin went in back together…I was left in this freezing cold bus at 3:30 in the morning, stuck talking to, like, 30-year-old men that were trying to hit on me.”

Police are investigating a possible sighting of baby Lisa Irwin after witnesses spotted two women with an infant that matched the missing 11-month-old's description, and RadarOnline.com has exclusive confirmation from the private investigator in the case.

"Two women were in a diner with a baby who fits the description about an hour-and-half away in Manhattan, Kansas," private eye Bill Stanton told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview.

"When they were approached they walked out and a police APB is out searching for their car," revealed the investigator, who is busy working the case.

The community of Overland Park, Kansas is rocked with scandal, after a former teacher and cheerleading coach at Shawnee Mission West High School has been accused of having sexual relations with three students and faces up to 30 years in prison – and RadarOnline.com has the details.

On Friday, after several months of investigation, Johnson County prosecutors accused Michelle Preston, 27, of engaging in sexual relations with three students, who were over the age of 16 years old.  The alleged encounters occurred between September and December 2010, when she was a teacher at the school.

Statutory rape is not a factor, as all three of the alleged incidents took place with students who were of legal age of consent.

Elizabeth Taylor’s close friend and personal assistant Sally Morrison has told RadarOnline.com: “I hope the Westboro Baptist Church does not picket her funeral.”

The controversial ant-gay Baptist church had intimated after the screen legend’s passing that they would target her funeral because of her work with HIV/AIDS patients.

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