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Unindicted 'co-conspirators' namedJefferson's brother, wife are among 11 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 By Bruce Alpert WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Justice Department has named 11 unindicted "co-conspirators" in the case against Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, including the congressman's wife and brother and the former vice president of Nigeria. The information is contained in a letter from prosecutor Mark Lytle to Jefferson's attorney, Robert Trout. The letter was made public last week when attorneys for Jefferson included the letter as one of the exhibits attached to motions asking Virginia federal Judge T.S. Ellis III to drop 14 of the 16 criminal...

By Norris Jones Gulf Region Central District BAGHDAD, Sept. 7, 2007 — They're overseeing some of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers key projects rebuilding Iraq. Lt. Col. J.P. Moszer and his sister, Lt. Col. Jan Carter, deployed with the North Dakota National Guard Engineer Brigade, 34th Infantry Division, in April. Moszer is the officer in charge of the Baghdad Area Office responsible for 150 projects valued at $600 million. He's working with seven brigade combat teams and 53 battalions improving essential services to residents throughout the capital. "We're building water, sewer and electrical networks, courthouses, schools, clinics, renovating...

I have been providing portions from my book, Is the Mormon My Brother?, which define, from exclusively LDS sources, the teachings of Mormonism regarding the central definitional doctrine of any theistic religion: the doctrine of God. Given the presidential aspirations of Mitt Romney, a Mormon, this topic is once again in the public eye, and sadly, the general ignorance of LDS teaching on the part of the public at large is simply absymal. The idea of latter-day revelation opens up for us a second level of authoritative teachings from which we can glean a great deal of information about the...

KIRKUK, Iraq, Aug. 17, 2007 – Twin sisters and fellow Army Spcs. Sarah and Angela Andrews helped promote their brother, Ryan McCarty, to sergeant here earlier this month. Ryan McCarty (right), of 2nd Squadron, 6th U.S. Cavalry Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, gets pinned with sergeant rank by his twin sisters, Spcs. Sarah (center) and Angela Andrews (left), both soldiers with 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, at Forward Operating Base Warrior, in Kirkuk, Iraq, Aug. 10. McCarty’s sisters traveled from Forward Operating Base Warhorse, in Baqubah, for the event and brief family reunion. Photo by Sgt. Mike Alberts, USA  (Click...

Jefferson deals all in the family, feds sayBrother always gets a cut, indictment says Saturday, June 16, 2007 By Bill Walsh WASHINGTON -- Throughout a 94-page federal indictment, prosecutors repeatedly describe scenes of Rep. William Jefferson telling business executives that there is an important condition to be met before he would use his influence on their behalf: A certain family member would have to be compensated with cash, contracts or a stake in the business. And he played hardball, according to the government. While pushing an oil deal in Nigeria in 2002, Jefferson is said to have complained that the...

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Samuel Martin (right) shows his brother, Army Sgt. Paul Martin, how he performs a maintenance check on an F-16 Fighting Falcon jet engine, May 30, 2007, at Balad Air Base, Iraq. Samuel is assigned to the 14th Air Expeditionary Maintenance Unit and Paul is a satellite imagery analyst with the 3rd Brigade, 1st Calvary Division from Fort Hood, Texas. The two caught up with each other at Balad. U.S Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. LuCelia Ball U.S. Army Sgt. Paul Martin Balad-Based Airman Gets Chance Visit from Army Brother By Staff Sgt. LuCelia...

BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil police have formally accused a brother of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of influence peddling after a nationwide crackdown on illegal gambling, the government news agency said Tuesday. Genival Inacio da Silva's home in the San Bernardo do Campo suburb was searched by authorities Monday as part of a federal police operation that arrested 77 people on charges of smuggling electronic gambling machines and bribing police in Mato Grosso do Sul state. Police did not say what was seized in Silva's brother's home or elaborate on the motives for the accusation, the official Agencia Brasil...

LYING alongside one another, these beautiful babies look like they could have been born weeks or even months apart - in fact, they are identical twin boys, who were born with just a minute separating them. Weighing in at a tiny 1.54kg, Byron Ryman's birthweight was almost double that of his brother Lincoln's, who was just 530g when he was delivered on March 15 at the Royal Hospital for Women at Randwick in Sydney.

Hi all, My brother Lucas, (Age 25) had a seizure today while just sitting and talking with my mom and grandmother. He's never had a case of seizures before, his blood sugar was normal, the bloodwork test came out normal, the cat scan showed nothing wrong with his brain. tomorrow he goes in for an EEG. None of this makes sense. He has been under a lot of preasure lately with studying at school and his job. and he has complained about feeling a bit light headed lately and had a couple of fainting spells last week. I'm asking for...

An Arab convert to Judaism living in Haifa was indicted Thursday for conspiring with the enemy and contacting a foreign agent – his brother, an Islamic Jihad terrorist. Assaf Ben-David, born Hussam Hafez Mahmoud Suafta, converted to Judaism and left the PA-controlled village of Tubas, near Shechem, once he received Israeli citizenship in 1993. He is now accused of trying to pass materials for manufacturing explosives to his brother Salah, a member of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group Salah was killed on December 20th in clashes with the IDF in Tubas before he could receive the nitrous acid from his...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) questioned soon- to-be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) commitment to eradicating corruption with her endorsement of one of the most unethical members in Congress, Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), to be Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. Rep. Murtha was listed in CREW' report Beyond DeLay: The 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and five to watch). As reported in the study and by the news media, Rep, Murtha has been involved in a number of pay-to play schemes involving former staffers and his brother, Robert...

St. Crispen's Day Speech William Shakespeare, 1599 Enter the KING WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day! KING. What's he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin; If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me...

HAVANA - The ailing Fidel Castro is not dying but is recovering from an illness, his younger brother and Cuba's acting president said Sunday in response to rumors that the leader was on his deathbed. Raul Castro, who has been standing in for his brother since July 31, was responding to recent reports including one in Time magazine that said Castro apparently has terminal cancer. Castro is recovering from intestinal surgery but the lack of details from the Cuban government regarding the nature of his illness has sparked a number of rumors about his health. "He is not dying like...

AL ASAD, Iraq, Sept. 22, 2006 — While growing up, Daniel and Anthony Martinez, U.S. Marines from Michigan's Bay City, were typical young brothers - they fought and argued. But when Daniel was injured last month after a suicide bomber attacked his unit's post in Iraq's Al Anbar Province, everything changed. For the two Marines, who are just one year apart in age and both stationed in Iraq, communication has been sparse at best - Anthony serves at this sprawling U.S. airbase, while Daniel serves on a much smaller outpost northwest of Al Asad. Plus, the brothers' daily duties leave...

Katie, Who Shouted Down Jim MoranSeptember 13, 2006 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: We have Katie on the phone from Arlington, Virginia. Hi, Katie, nice to have you with us. CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh, how are you? RUSH: Couldn't be better. Thank you. CALLER: Yesterday you had talked about the Jim Moran rally in Arlington for 9/11, and you had mentioned the screaming girl, and that was me, and I just wanted to give you some more context to why I had such a violent outbreak. RUSH: That's fabulous. Let me play the sound bite that we had yesterday. It's Internet quality,...

Oops! Kyra Phillips' Girl Talk Airs Live Over Bush on CNN Posted by Megan McCormack on August 29, 2006 - 14:38. Looking for a "passionate, compassionate, great, great" man? Well, according to CNN’s Kyra Phillips, they do indeed exist. During CNN’s live coverage of President Bush’s remarks from New Orleans, Phillips was unaware that her microphone was on and picked up portions of a conversation she was having with another woman. At 12:49pm EDT, those listening carefully could hear Phillips praise her husband: Phillips: "Yeah, I’m very lucky in that regard with my husband. My husband is handsome and he...

LONDON, Aug 24: British police investigating a suspected plot to blow up transatlantic airliners freed two suspects on Wednesday and obtained permission to continue questioning nine others. Police had charged 11 people on Tuesday in the suspected plot and had been holding 11 others pending a decision on whether to charge them. They did not name the men they freed on Wednesday, but Sky News reported that one was Tayib Rauf of Birmingham, Britain’s second city. His brother Rashid Rauf has been arrested in Pakistan. Police later said they had obtained a judge’s permission to continue questioning eight of the...

A 14-year-old girl in Derry Borough thought she had killed her little brother during a fight, so she jumped off a bridge, breaking both her legs. Derry Police Chief Randolph Glick said the girl was taken by helicopter last night to Children's Hospital in Oakland. Her condition was not available today.

Boys with a number of elder brothers are more likely to grow up to be gay than boys with relatively fewer older brothers, younger brothers or sisters of any age - but is not the result of upbringing, says a study published today. For each additional older brother, a boy's chance of being homosexual increases by a third, it says. Prof Anthony Bogaert, at Brock University, in St Catherine's, Canada, says his research provides strong evidence that sexual orientation may be the result of biological processes in the womb. "If you have a biological brother, and you never even lived...

An alleged hit-and-run driver who police say struck a 20-year-old man was chased down and beaten by the victim’s older brother Thursday night in South Waco. Michael Campbell, 26, was in front of his house in the 3000 block of Mildred Street as his younger brother and two friends were walking home about 9:25 p.m., Waco Police Department spokesman Steve Anderson said. As they got closer to home, Michael Campbell saw a Chevrolet Cavalier driven by 20-year-old Arturo Martinez speeding down the road. The two friends jumped over a parked car to get out of the Cavalier’s way, Anderson said....