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Beaten to a pile of broken bones, caged, starved and tortured, Eric Lomax was convinced he would never see Britain ever again. He had already experienced the lottery of death among the chain gangs on the Burma-Siam Railway. Now things were even worse. Accused of being a spy, he had been left to the mercies of the Japanese army’s secret police. Among their specialities was what is today known as ‘waterboarding’, when a prisoner undergoes near-drowning. It was surely only a matter of time before he would be put out of his misery.

Two former Fort Monmouth workers, and the daughter of one of them, are accused of scheming to have government contractors provide no-show jobs for the daughter. Accused in an indictment made public today are 55-year-old Michael Rzeplinski, a former programs director for the General Services Administration and former Army supervisory engineer; 61-year-old Connie Davidson, a former G-S-A employee who lives with Rzeplinski in Red Bank, and her 33-year-old Kirsten Davidson of Red Bank. All three are charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States. Rzeplinski also faces two counts of mail fraud and three counts of tax evasion. Rzeplinski and...

Republican activist charged with shooting at workers 03:01 PM CST on Thursday, January 27, 2005 Associated Press WACO – A longtime Republican Party activist has been indicted on charges of shooting at workers cutting down trees at her Waco-area home. Carolyn Payne Lomax was indicted Wednesday on two counts of aggravated assault in a 2004 incident at her Woodway home. Authorities said the workers were trimming trees around utility lines when the incident happened. Lomax, 63, said no one from the company contacted her before workers – in her word – "butchered" her trees. She said she ordered the workers...