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These are pics I took at the WWII weekend show in Reading, PA on June 4,2006. I also have posted a few pics from last years. This is a very neat show they put on for one whole weekend every year in Reading, PA. I have them posted in my new Picasa Web album I am testing out. I thought WWII buffs would enjoy these pics. Click on the URL link above.

FORT MEADE, Md. A military jury on Friday sentenced Army dog handler Sgt. Santos A. Cardona to 90 days hard labor without confinement, and a reduction in rank. Santos was convicted Thursday of dereliction of duty and aggravated assault for allowing his Belgian shepherd to bark within inches of a prisoner's face. He faced a maximum penalty of 3 1/2 years in prison, a dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all pay and allowances.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's parliament has approved a motion calling for the government to prosecute the U.S. soldiers responsible for a deadly road crash that sparked the worst riots in Kabul in years, officials said Wednesday.

MIAMI — More than 100 people were arrested and about 52 tons of cocaine seized during a three-year investigation that targeted an international Colombia-based drug cartel, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced Wednesday.

DOHA, Qatar — Olympic champion Justin Gatlin broke the 100-meter world record Friday with a time of 9.76 seconds at the Qatar Grand Prix. The American sprinter lowered the mark of 9.77 seconds set by Jamaica's Asafa Powell on June 14, 2005, in Athens, Greece. Gatlin won the 100- and 200-meter titles at the world championships in Helsinki, Finland, last August. He said Monday he intended to break the record in Doha. Olusoji Fasuban of Nigeria finished second Friday in 9.84 seconds, with Shawn Crawford of the United States third in 10.08. Gatlin and Powell ran 9.95s in separate races...

A non-nuclear explosion expected to generate a mushroom cloud over the Nevada desert will be postponed at least three weeks, while a federal court reviews plans for the blast, test officials said Tuesday. "The planned Divine Strake experiment will not be conducted earlier than June 23," said Cheri Abdelnour, spokeswoman for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at Fort Belvoir, Va. The blast was originally scheduled for June 2. Darwin Morgan, spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration in North Las Vegas, confirmed the date change but declined further comment. In documents filed Monday with U.S. District Court in Las Vegas,...

America may be the world's superpower, but its survival rate for newborn babies ranks near the bottom among modern nations, better only than Latvia. Among 33 industrialized nations, the United States is tied with Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia with a death rate of nearly 5 per 1,000 babies, according to a new report. Latvia's rate is 6 per 1,000. "We are the wealthiest country in the world, but there are still pockets of our population who are not getting the health care they need," said Mary Beth Powers, a reproductive health adviser for the U.S.-based Save the Children, which...

AUSTIN — The Texas Supreme Court today struck down a key part of the state's public school funding system and gave the Legislature until June 1 to correct the problem. The ruling, which partly upholds and partly reverses a state district court decision issued last year, means Gov. Rick Perry will have to call still another special session of the Legislature to tackle the problem. Most likely, the session will be held after the March party primaries, when he and many lawmakers will be on the ballot in contested elections. Lawmakers failed to agree on a new funding plan during...

Take notice, Houston motorists: There's a clear picture of the future downtown. It's where the Police Department this morning began testing camera systems designed to catch red-light runners at four intersections. The 30-day pilot program is part of an effort to pick the best private vendor to install the systems at up to 50 city intersections over time. Mayor Bill White and other city officials say the cameras serve two key purposes: reducing serious wrecks at intersections and freeing up an understaffed police force from traffic enforcement. "This is about increasing safety, making people more alert and using the technology...

ATHENS, Greece — Asafa Powell set a world record in the men's 100 meters Tuesday, clocking 9.77 seconds at the Tsiklitiria Super Grand Prix meeting. The Jamaican, who finished fifth in 9.94 at the 2004 Athens Games on the same track, shaved one hundredth of a second off Tim Montgomery's record of 9.78 set in Paris in 2002.