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The Dunn County Sheriff's Office has identified the four people found dead in an abandoned black SUV in the town of Sheridan. Tuesday, the sheriff's office reported the four people have been identified as 30-year-old Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley, of Stillwater; 26-year-old Matthew Isiah Pettus, of St. Paul; 35-year-old Loyace Foreman III, of St. Paul; and 30-year-old Jasmine Christine Sturm, of St. Paul. The four were found after officials received a 911 call reporting a death at 2:18 p.m. on Sunday. According to the update Tuesday, the sheriff's office reported autopsies from the Ramsey County medical examiner revealed the four died...

Burn their eyes out this weekend by flying your US flags from the 3rd through the 5th for the Fourth of July celebration. Have all the cretins of the left squinting and rubbing their eyes because of all the flags being displayed this holiday weekend. Let the commie left display their traitorous indignation at the flag flying across the country.

Blue Oyster Cult – I Love The Night [from the Spectres album 1977] That night her kiss told me it was over I walked out late into the dark The misty gloom seems to soak up my sorrow The further I went on I felt a spreading calm Then suddenly my eyes were bathed in light And the lovely lady in white was by my side She said "like me I see you're walking alone Won't you please stay? " I couldn't look away[....]

Al-Qaida's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, delivering another big blow to a terrorist group that the U.S. believes to be on the verge of defeat, a senior Obama administration official said Saturday. The Libyan national who was the network's former operational leader rose to al-Qaida's No. 2 spot after the U.S. killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden during a raid on his Pakistan compound in May. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last month that al-Qaida's defeat was within reach if the U.S. could mount a string of successful attacks on the group's weakened leadership.

Bank of China shares fall sharply on worries of subprime losses Mon Jan 21, 2:06 AM ET Shares in Bank of China (BOC) fell sharply Monday on reports it might post lower profits or even a loss when announcing 2007 results in April, due to writedowns on struggling subprime investments. The bank may announce a significant writedown on its 7.95 billion US dollars of investments in securities linked to US subprime mortgages, the South China Morning Post reported Monday, citing unnamed mainland banking sources. Senior banking regulators have already warned the mainland leadership that BOC, as well as the Industrial...

11/8/2007 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- The MQ-9A Reaper demonstrated it's unique precision strike capability as a hunter-killer attack platform by dropping its first precision-guided bomb Nov. 7. "The beauty of the MQ-9 Reaper is that we're able to synchronize and integrate unmanned aerial attack platforms over the skies of Afghanistan, allowing us to persistently and consistently track the enemy and ensure that we place the appropriate ordnance on target when required, and maintain that persistent presence after weapons release," said Lt. Gen. Gary North, U.S. Central Command Air Forces commander. The Reaper, the Air Force's unmanned aerial attack vehicle,...

Talks on North Korean banking row enter second week in China Mon Apr 2, 6:11 PM ET Negotiations over the release of millions of dollars claimed by Pyongyang dragged into a second week on Monday, with no sign of progress in the impasse that has held up North Korean nuclear talks. Top US Treasury official Daniel Glaser was still in Beijing after holding days of meetings with Chinese officials on the issue last week, a US embassy spokeswoman said. "I can confirm that he is still here. We don't know how much longer he is going to be here," spokeswoman...

N.Korean bank threatens legal action By WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer Mon Mar 26, 11:13 PM ET A North Korean bank was threatening to derail a U.S.-North Korean financial deal that was crucial in getting the North to agree to disarm its nuclear program, a report said Tuesday. The North has refused to return to the nuclear talks until about $25 million of its funds frozen at a blacklisted Macau lender are transferred to the Bank of China. The fund transfer was supposed to happen last week, but the transaction has been delayed for reasons that haven't been fully explained....