Texas Sailor Among 10 Missing After Navy Ship's Collision Near Singapore

A Houston-area man is among the 10 sailors missing after a U.S. Navy destroyer collided with an oil tanker near Singapore on Monday.Family members confirmed to KHOU-TV that John "CJ" Hoagland, 20, was missing. Hoagland, an electronic technician for the Navy, is from Cleveland, Texas, and had been living in Killeen.On Tuesday, divers found the remains of some of the sailors in a flooded section of the USS John S. McCain, said Adm. Scott Swift, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. He added that it was "premature to say how many and what the status of recovery of those bodies is."  Continue reading...

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