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United States To Send 'Up To 45,000 More Troops To Afghanistan' The US is expected to announce a significant surge of up to 45,000 extra troops for Afghanistan after Gordon Brown said that 500 more British troops would be sent to the country. By James Kirkup and Andrew Hough 14 Oct 2009 Newsnight reported he would announce a surge in troop numbers. President Barack Obama's administration is understood to have told the British government that it could announce, as early as next week, the substantial increase to its 65,000 troops already serving there. The decision from Mr Obama comes after...

Two L.A. County deaths possibly related to swine flu, coroner says [UPDATED] 9:09 AM | April 28, 2009 The Los Angeles County coroner's office is investigating two recent deaths that officials say could be related to the recent global swine flu outbreak. However, no tests have come back positive for the swine flu, and medical examiners have not officially determined what caused the deaths. [Updated at 9:30 a.m.: Coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey said his office would collect specimens from the deceased and send them to the county public health department, which would determine whether either person died from the swine...

This past weekend, the mainstream news media were breathlessly reporting that an arrest of a Salvadorian immigrant for killing a young Washington, DC woman named Chandra Levy is imminent. The case originally received so much media attention that she became a household name. While the media continue their fascination with this case, they have -- for the most part -- failed to identify the suspect as an illegal alien already locked up in prison for previous attacks on American women, preferring to call him an immigrant or a Salvadorian National.

An illegal immigrant charged with killing two people in a South Richmond car crash now faces a $2.3 million wrongful-death suit filed by the family of one of the victims. The administrators of the estate of Kathryn L. Jones, who was fatally injured in the May 24 wreck, also has named as a defendant the construction company for which Carmen Alejandro Garcia-Hernandez was employed. Garcia-Hernandez was driving a pickup truck registered to R.J. Biringer Construction Co. Inc., whose owner, Ronald J. Biringer, is under federal indictment for transporting illegal immigrants. Richmond police allege that Garcia-Hernandez was driving the truck when...

Jurors began deliberating the fates Thursday of two suspected illegal-entrant smugglers who authorities say were involved in a crash that killed five in Sierra Vista. Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Ferraro told jurors in federal court in Tucson that once they weigh the "avalanche of evidence" against Jose Luis Zepeda-Cruz, 25, and Jimir Valle-Martinez, 22, they will no doubt return a guilty verdict on all 15 counts they face. According to authorities and court testimony, Valle-Martinez was traveling between 88 and 96 mph when he lost control of the Ford F-350 pickup he was driving, skidded sideways, crashed over a median...

DFU: Another Five Dead - Stop the Dying and End it Now FReepers, you probably thought you would never hear me say it or put it in print. But enough is enough. Too many have died. And for what? We have had enough dead fathers and brothers and sons and grandsons. We have lost some of our best Americans. There have been too many funerals and too many serious injuries. How did we get to this place in our history? Is the President to blame? Yes, I know that some of you say they went voluntarily. That's nice, but it...

Garfield Sheriff Says Shooting Suspect Worked At Nearby Ranch POSTED: 4:07 pm MDT June 16, 2005 UPDATED: 6:10 pm MDT June 16, 2005 GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. -- Authorities said Thursday that they have a suspect in the recent shooting death of Qwest Communications executive Jeff Garrett. "We have recovered the weapon, we have a witness, and we have a suspect," said Lou Vallario, the Garfield County Sheriff. Vallario told reporters Thursday afternoon that investigators believe a Mexican national -- who has since reportedly fled to Mexico -- is responsible for the May 14 fatal shooting. The suspect's name was not...