By Tim Elfrink, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Dec. 23--RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany -- Hours before sunrise, Master Sgt. Jeff Van Nortwick yawned and tried to stay out of the way as medics carried stretchers through his aircraft's cargo hatch.

By MATT MOORE RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany - Smiling broadly, journalist Jill Carroll arrived in Germany on Saturday, the first stop on her way home to the United States from Iraq where she was kidnapped and spent 82 days in captivity.

By Phil Stewart ROME (Reuters) - Prosecutors hoping to put 22 CIA agents on trial in Italy for kidnapping a Muslim cleric there say they have gleaned new evidence from German phone records, a well-placed judicial source said.

RAMSTEIN, Germany - More than 70 U.S. soldiers from Iraq were flown Saturday to a military hospital in Germany, most of them wounded in the battle for Fallujah, officials said. The 73 new patients at the U.S.