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Parking FeudBy Kimberly CraigWeb produced by Jenny ClarkMarch 9, 2005Some U.S. Marines say they were surprised by the decision made by Detroit auto workers about parking. It all started with the cars some Marines drove, and what was on them. The words that have some U.S. Marines in shock came from the man in charge of security at the UAW Solidarity House, on Jefferson in Detroit. For a number of years now, dozens of Marine reservists have been thankful to park in the UAW's lot for weekend training with no problem at all - until now. Marines at nearby Marine...

A 23-year-old man who fled to Pakistan after allegedly kidnapping and raping a woman in 2002 has been extradited to Oakland County to face charges. Mohammed Haris Hasan was arraigned Tuesday in the 51st District Court on one count of kidnapping, eight counts of criminal sexual conduct, one count of assault with intent to murder and one count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm, less than murder, according to Waterford police. The charges stem from an incident on Jan. 20, 2002. A woman was picked up at a Pontiac bar, driven to River Rouge where she...

 News-Info-Alerts Re: POW-MIA Freedom RadioFrom: POW-MIA InterNetwork Date: June 13, 2004Remember Pfc. Keith Maupin...Prisoner of War since April 9, 2004. Contact his representative, Mr. Rob Portman, 202-225-3164 and demand every effort be made to effect his immediate release! Ask your senators why the "Bring Them Home Alive Act of 2000", (S-1339, the "Speicher Bill"), as amended, is not being invoked now!

The Americanswritten by Gordon SinclairThe United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the world. As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Well, Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did, that's...

An Open Letter to American Media: Enough Is Enough Posted by Cinnamon StillwellTuesday, May 25, 2004     The following ''Open Letter to American Media'' was written by Dr. Ted Miller, a professor of military studies at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado.  In it, he expresses the frustration many of us feel about our mainstream media's seeming bias against their own country.      I have long perceived a bias in the mainstream media and have for years been frustrated with its implications for our society and nation.  The political slant inherent in modern journalism is no longer unexpected and is even tolerable when social...

Manager strip-searched teen Act ordered by caller claiming to be police 08:41 PM CST on Saturday, March 27, 2004 Associated Press FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. - Authorities are investigating a report that a manager of a fast-food restaurant conducted a strip search of a teenage female customer. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said an unidentified caller pretending to be a police officer directed the 39-year-old manager of a Taco Bell restaurant to conduct the search Monday after giving a general description of a theft suspect. The girl, a 17-year-old high school student, was taken to a back room. There, she was...

Too Many Medals? Michael Moran for MSNBC For 1st Lt. John O. Merrill, the fateful moment came in the skies over Mayen, Germany in February 1945, when he continued to fly his burning, flak-riddled B-26 bomber until all of his crew could bail out. Capt. Ernie Arzabal's setting was different -- Vietnam, 1970 -- but the story familiar. Flying a light observation helicopter, Arzabal repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire in order to rescue wounded American troops. These actions earned both men the Distinguished Flying Cross, a decoration given to a relative handful of soldiers since Charles Lindbergh won the...

<p>Ronald Young Jr., 20, was struck and killed while walking with his family Tuesday night. Sherita Wilson, 19, and her and Young's daughter, Deborah Young, 16 months, were injured.</p> <p>Robert Gallas told authorities he thought he'd just hit a branch with his Jeep Liberty -- so he kept driving, unaware he had dragged a baby in a stroller for a mile after killing her father in a collision on an unlit road.</p>

Posted on Mon, Feb. 02, 2004 OHL player suspended after `Euros' commentAssociated Press PLYMOUTH, Mich.Plymouth Whalers defenseman James Wisniewski has been suspended for five games by the Ontario Hockey League for using the word "Euros" during a game.During Plymouth's 7-4 loss Friday to visiting Owen Sound, Stefan Ruzicka challenged Wisniewski to a fight, and Wisniewski reportedly responded by saying he did not fight "Euros."The comment was overheard by a linesman. Wisniewski, Plymouth's captain, received a gross misconduct penalty.Ruzicka, a third-round pick by Philadelphia in last year's draft, is a native of Nitra, Slovakia. Wisniewski said he didn't think he...

<p>Helicopter pilot Capt. Kimberly Hampton of Easley was killed in Iraq Friday, making her the first female pilot casualty.</p> <p>Saturday, her parents wrapped themselves in the memories of her warmth and smile, and her patriotic leanings.</p> <p>"She believed in what she was doing over there," said her dad, Dale Hampton. "She was a commander of helicopters over there."</p>

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The blonde who snared Saddam GORDON THOMAS21dec03 SADDAM Hussein was captured through the demands of the one woman he still trusted. She is Samira Shahbander, the second of his four wives. On December 11 she contacted Saddam from an Internet cafe in Ba'albeck, near Beirut. Samira and Saddam's only surviving son, Ali, have lived under assumed names in Lebanon since leaving Baghdad months before the war started. Samira, whose curly blonde hair came from the same French hair product company that provided Saddam with his hair dye, was the married woman who first became Saddam's mistress and then his...

<p>Staff Sgt. Max Voelz told his wife's parents that she had been the best thing that had ever happened to him.</p> <p>CARLISLE, Pa. &mdash; In the days since Army Staff Sgt. Kimberly A. Voelz died Dec.14 in the arms of her soldier husband, killed by the makeshift bomb she was preparing to disarm, artifacts of her life have been arriving at her parents' home.</p>

<p>LAKE JUNALUSKA - Marine Capt. Thomas "Tad" Douglas has plenty to remember from his combat tour in Iraq this past spring.</p> <p>Douglas led his platoon on 22 reconnaissance missions, including one that provided surveillance and sniper coverage of the hospital where Special Forces troops rescued prisoner of war Jessica Lynch. That mission was considered by the Marine Corps to be a "heroic achievement" worthy of a Bronze Star medal.</p>

Marshall County Reading Group Receives Donation By SCOTT HANSON   MOUNDSVILLE - "We all know about what happened to Pfc. Jessica Lynch, but there are other soldiers who were captured in Iraq who deserve some recognition as well," said Pam Whitman of the Marshall County Family Readiness Group when Teletech of Moundsville presented the group with a donation.   Accepting the donation on behalf of the group was one such soldier, Sgt. James Robinson of the West Virginia National Guard Detachment 1 Co.C 1092nd Engineers Battalion - one of four United States soldiers and five civilians who were detained in Iran during...

October 12, 2003 Officials confirm that the nation can now launch nuclear weapons from land, sea and air. The issue complicates efforts to rein in Iran. By Douglas Frantz, Times Staff Writer TEL AVIV Israel has modified American-supplied cruise missiles to carry nuclear warheads on submarines, giving the Middle East's only nuclear power the ability to launch atomic weapons from land, air and beneath the sea, according to senior Bush administration and Israeli officials. The previously undisclosed submarine capability bolsters Israel's deterrence in the event that Iran, an avowed enemy, develops nuclear weapons.

Thursday October 02, 2003 Families chip in for flak jackets 02.10.2003 - By ANDREW GUMBEL in Los Angeles United States soldiers in Iraq are so short of up-to-date flak jackets - often the difference between survivable injury and death in combat - that their families back home have begun buying them out of their own pocket. Campaigners for military families opposed to the continuing occupation angrily denounced the lack of adequate protection yesterday, calling it "outrageous" and part of a pattern of general failure to provide adequate supplies to the troops almost five months after the formal end of the...

Iraq: During one of the war's bloodiest battles, a young private saved fellow soldiers and then kept cool amid weeks of captivity. His name is Patrick Miller. FORT CARSON, Colo. -- Pfc. Jessica Lynch is the celebrity soldier of the Iraq war. Pfc. Patrick Miller, a member of the same company captured with her in a ferocious firefight, remains one of its unsung heroes.

Retired General H. Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11, shared his recollection of that day and his views of the war against terrorism with the Foothill College Celebrity Forum audience at Flint Center, Sept. 11 and 12.His review of that historic event and his 38 years in the military kept the audience's rapt attention throughout. But it was his answer to a question from the audience at the end that shocked his listeners."What do you think of General Wesley Clark and would you support him as a presidential candidate," was the question put to him...

5 Cranbrook Teachers Allegedly Smoke Pot On CampusNo Students Involved, According To ReportsPOSTED: 8:30 a.m. EDT September 17, 2003Five faculty members of Cranbrook schools are accused of smoking marijuana during a campus event. Three teachers from the Cranbrook Upper School and two teachers from the Brookside Lower School were fired for the allegations, Local 4 reported. Sources told Local 4 that the alleged incident happened Labor Day week, before school started. No students were involved.