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Putting on their Sunday best Politics and gospel freely mix with Obama and Ford By Halimah Abdullah Contact November 6, 2006 NASHVILLE -- Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and Democratic congressional colleague Harold Ford Jr. testified to the power of God and the political process during a whirlwind tour of church services Sunday. Ford's senatorial campaign, with Obama in tow, dropped in for a morning service at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, a large, predominantly African-American house of worship nestled in a Nashville strip mall. There, Obama and Ford did a little teaching and a whole lot of preaching. "We appreciate...

Arrest based on terrorist attack By Lawrence Buser Contact February 22, 2006 A University of Memphis student arrested last September with a pilot's uniform and other flight-training materials in his apartment was preparing for a terrorist attack on the United States, new documents in the case allege. Mahmoud Maawad was charged with wire fraud and using a false Social Security number, but authorities now say he was visiting online chatrooms and Web sites supporting radical Sunni Muslim organizations and Al Queda leaders in Iraq. They said an examination of his computer also showed Maawad had searched the Internet for how...

PRINT THIS STORY | E-MAIL THIS STORY Thirteen more votes may be illegal Senate Republican gets data on Dist. 29 from private eye By Marc Perrusquia Contact February 7, 2006 Days after a federal judge put up a roadblock, Senate Republicans are moving forward to void the Dist. 29 election -- armed this time with new allegations of 13 illegal votes. Senate majority leader Ron Ramsey, R-Blountville, said Monday he's received details compiled by a private investigator on 13 people who don't live in the district but voted in the election won by Ophelia Ford. One of the 13 is...

Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey Fundraiser Saturday February 04 Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, the first Member of Congress to call on the President to bring our troops home, will be in Los Angeles on Saturday February 4th for a very exciting but critical fundraiser against the most well-known, well-financed challenger she's ever faced. She is facing a primary challenge from a termed-out Assemblyman Joe Nation, a moderate Democrat who has been critical of her stand on the war and on bringing home our troops. He is raising money from people who have given money to Tom DeLay and Bush-Cheney and his legislative district...

76 recruits ‘sign up’ at 49ers game by Staff Sgt. Connie L. Bias 364th Recruiting Squadron 11/8/2005 - SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Seventy-six delayed entry program recruits swore into the Air Force before a crowd of 70,000 at a San Francisco 49ers game here Nov. 6. The recruits -- some traveled 100 miles to the Monster Park football field -- enlisted through the 364th Recruiting Squadron out of Sacramento, Calif. The annual swear-in started in 2004, when 49ers entertainment director Lorie Murphy jumped at the chance to beef up the team’s Military Appreciation Game halftime show. “The crowd response was...

I just received a phone call from my son that is in the Air Force. Apparently 3 of his friends and fellow Airmen, were involved in 2 separate accidents yesterday. One was on a motorcycle he had only bought a few minutes before the accident occurred. He told me this young man had just bought this bike literally minutes before and took off without a helmet. He hit a pole and suffered severe head trauma. My son said they were not expecting him to make it. The other 2 were involved in auto accident and my son told me they...