Italian boat finds remains of US balloonists

ROME — An Italian fishing boat on Monday pulled the remains of two American balloonists from the Adriatic Sea, ending a two-month hunt for the pair’s bodies in one of ballooning’s darkest chapters. The boat hauled in the balloon and its gondola with the bodies of the Americans still inside while fishing 11 miles north of Vieste before dawn. Viete is on Italy’s eastern Adriatic coast in the southern Puglia region, which makes up the “heel” of boot-shaped Italy.