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The Penn State Sandusky scandal is getting weirder by the day. Besides the delays in reporting a serial child molester for years, in the past week conflicts of interests in presiding judge as well as Penn State investigating committees, we have learned that Sandusky’s lawyer impregnated an underage teen in the past, and a bizarre Sandusky interview with Bob Costas made news. The most amazing link however has been identified by researchers into Graham Spanier’s past. If it is not odd enough that Mr. Spanier was complicit in not reporting the Sandusky rape to the police, Mr. Spanier has a...

In the ongoing saga of Penn State University failures and misguided moral compass, there is unfortunately one more insult to injury to the Sandusky child rape victims and their families. Penn State’s board of trustees last Friday appointed Kenneth Frazier, the chief executive of Merck & Co. as well as Penn State alumni, to lead a special committee to investigate the Sandusky sordid matter. As a Penn State alum myself, it turns my stomach knowing that Mr. Frazier volunteered himself and has serious conflicts of interest in the scandal. Anyone is able to review the Annual reports of Sandusky’s “Second...

Navy Crew Gathering Examines 1967 Israeli Attack of USS LibertyBy Jean Ortiz Associated Press Writer Published: May 22, 2004 NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) - For the nearly 20 surviving crew members of the USS Liberty, a gathering after 37 years was as much about the future as it was about the past. The Liberty, an intelligence-gathering vessel, was attacked by Israel in June 1967 while cruising international waters off the Egyptian coast during the Six Day War. Israel was the war's victor, defeating the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan. The attack was ruled accidental by U.S. officials. Emerging reports,...

Can anyone tell me how the Iraqi insurgents are able to penetrate our invincible Abrams tank?

WASHINGTON (AP) - From Albany, N.Y. to Albuquerque, N.M., FBI field offices are working under new guidelines for terrorism cases that allow criminal and intelligence agents to work together and share information. The strategy, which has been in the works for about a year, was completed over the summer, and a directive was sent to the agency's field offices in October that "emphasized this is the way we're doing business for the future," a senior law enforcement official said Saturday. "You can have investigators working side-by-side now, whereas before they couldn't share information and it really frustrated putting the big...

File photo of Prime Minister Jean Chretien (R) and United States President Bill Clinton (news - web sites) climbing a fence, at the G8 Summit in Birmingham, England, in May of 1998. Chretien will retire on December 12, 2003 after 40 years in politics, ten of those as prime minister.

Al-Qal'a (The Fortress) an Islamist Internet forum, posted the first of a two-part interview with a person who introduced himself as Abu Salma Al-Hijazi, one of the Al Qaida commanders closest to Osama bin Laden.(1) The interview was conducted in Iraq, south of Faluja. The article notes that Al-Hijazi was surrounded by five masked men carrying missiles as well as personal weapons. The following are excerpts from the interview: In regard to rumors about a large-scale attack against the U.S. during the month of Ramadan, Al-Hijazi said that "a huge and very courageous strike" will take place and that the...

<p>JACKSONVILLE, North Carolina (CNN) -- It was the deadliest day of the Iraq war.</p> <p>Eighteen Marines were killed in Nasiriya on March 23 as U.S. and coalition forces drove to Baghdad.</p> <p>Six months later, those who fought alongside them told CNN they remain bitter that an undetermined number of their friends were killed -- not by Iraqis -- but by an Air Force A-10 they hoped was coming to their rescue.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two former FBI managers were hired as government contractors after their retirements, despite criticism of both men in an inspector general's report on FBI discipline. One ex-official, Joseph Wolfinger, is senior vice president and general manager of a Virginia firm that is conducting counter-intelligence training for FBI agents. The contract, which began earlier this year, is worth up to $410,000 if continued for five years, the bureau said. The other, Charles Mathews, former special agent in charge of the Portland, Ore., office, was hired to teach counter-intelligence training to Indonesian police. The FBI said Mathews received...

SOUR LAKE, Texas - A former federal prosecutor who successfully defended the government in a lawsuit filed by surviving members of the Waco cult was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. A police officer found the body of former U.S. Attorney J. Michael Bradford on Tuesday after checking on an abandoned car in the woods near Sour Lake, about 20 miles from Beaumont. The body and a shotgun were about 75 feet away. The wound was apparently self-inflicted, Sheriff Ed Cain said.

Yesterday and today the internet connections at our company have been non-existant. (Our business is dependant on them) The following mail below has been sent to our customers: ******************** This problem is affecting a very large number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) worldwide and it appears to be based upon an overloaded worldwide network as a result of the recent variations of several computer viruses. Computer networking engineers from many ISPs in many countries are focusing on the short-term situation as well as long-term solutions. ****************

What's At Stake! Protect Overtime Pay: Tell your senators to block the Bush overtime take away. Overtime pay cuts being pushed by the Bush administration are slated to go into effect for millions of workers as soon as September of this year. These changes would erode the 40-hour workweek and mean that if you receive overtime pay now, you might not in the future. New analysis shows millions could lose overtime pay, possibly including firefighters, police officers, nurses, retail clerks, certain medical technicians, military reservists, tech workers and many, many more. Under the Bush plan, you still may be forced...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Impressions left by a drill bit that allegedly links Terry Nichols to the theft of explosives used in the Oklahoma City bombing can be used at his trial, a judge ruled Monday. District Judge Steven Taylor denied a defense motion to exclude the evidence at Nichols' trial, set for March 1. Nichols, already convicted on federal bombing charges and sentenced to life in prison for his role in the bombing, faces the death penalty if convicted on state murder charges. Investigators discovered a drill and drill bits while searching Nichols' home in Kansas after he surrendered two...

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JERUSALEM, June 22 — The Israeli army has charged a female soldier with forcing a Palestinian woman at a checkpoint to drink the cleaning fluid she was carrying, a military spokesman said on Monday. The military charge sheet said the incident occurred four months ago in the Gaza Strip when the soldier pointed her assault rifle at the Palestinian woman, shouted at her and demanded she drink from a bottle she was holding. Military sources said the soldier was arrested over the incident, and that the Palestinian woman received treatment in a Gaza hospital. Palestinian civilians have complained of hundreds...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - An FBI scientist pleaded guilty Tuesday to giving false testimony in a pretrial hearing involving a man convicted of killing a college football player. Through her lawyer, Kathleen Lundy, who did not attend the hearing, pleaded guilty to false swearing and was fined $250. At the urging of the prosecutor, Lundy was spared the maximum 90-day jail sentence. "She's already lost her job and paid severely, through the loss of her job and her reputation," Prosecutor Tom Smith said. "In my mind, that was sufficient." Lundy testified in about 80 other cases across the nation. Smith...

Euro hits 4-year high The euro was at $1,1739 today, up from about $1,1672 in late U.S. trade on Friday, and hitting its highest level since January 1999. Dollar Within Grasp of Euro Debut Rate Ruters Monday, May 19, 2003; 6:17 AM By Justyna Pawlak LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar dropped to multiyear lows on major currencies, bringing the euro within grasp of its debut level on Monday, after U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow cemented views that Washington backed a weaker dollar.

" ...The search for John Doe No. 2 began when the FBI released sketches of two men it believed had rented the truck that blew up outside the federal building, based on descriptions from a worker in the rental shop. John Doe No. 1 was Timothy McVeigh, investigators said. John Doe No. 2 was a heavyset man who didn't resemble Nichols. The man in the sketch was eventually identified by authorities as an Army private who had been in the rental shop the day after McVeigh. The man was later cleared by the FBI..."

A prominent FBI science witness told federal investigators that his lab colleagues had performed shoddy work in the Timothy McVeigh case, then abruptly retracted several statements before appearing as a prosecution witness at trial, a transcript shows.

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) - U.S. soldiers raided a dozen buildings in Saddam Hussein's hometown Friday, killing one Iraqi and detaining about 20. U.S. officials also announced the capture in Baghdad of one of Saddam's most trusted aides. The aide, Mizban Khadr Hadi, was a member of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council and had been an adviser to Saddam since the early 1980s. Captured Thursday, Hadi was ranked No. 41 on the U.S. most-wanted list of 55 regime leaders. Even with President Bush declaring an end to "major combat operations," the raid in Tikrit was the latest of many signs that daunting...