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Oct 16, 2007

Tech. Sgt. Marvin Mosley releases a dropsond from the rear door of a C-17 Globemaster III Oct. 11 over Afghanistan. The dropsond is designed to relay information, such as wind speed and altitude, back to a computer onboard the aircraft…

Oct 16, 2007

GSA Contracting Official Charged With Accepting Bribes of Over $100,000 and a Caribbean Cruise/Chief Operating Officer Charged with Concealing Past Fraud Judgments from Federal Contracting Officials to Obtain Over $150 Million in Federal Contracts Greenbelt, Maryland - Former Montgomery County…

Oct 16, 2007

WASHINGTON - The Air Force announced that the service's new hunter-killer unmanned aerial vehicle is now flying operational missions in Afghanistan. The MQ-9 Reaper has completed 12 missions since its inaugural flight there Sept. 25, averaging about one sortie per…

Oct 16, 2007

Pittsburgh, PA A high-tech undercover investigation led by the U.S. Secret Service has led to the indictment of a California man on wire fraud and identity theft charges. Max Ray Butler, 35, of San Francisco, California, was indicted by a…

Oct 16, 2007

COVINGTON, KY Less than three weeks after being named to the U.S. Marshals "15 Most Wanted Fugitives" list, serial bank robber and prison escapee Anthony "Tony" Ray Artrip is now in custody after U.S. Marshals Deputies, joined by state and…

Oct 16, 2007

CHICAGO, Illinois- Applications are available for students who want to contend for the title of Elks National Foundation Most Valuable Student, and for a scholarship of up to $60,000. This year, the ENF added more top awards to the MVS…

Oct 5, 2007

WASHINGTON - Topps Meat Company, LLC, an Elizabeth, N.J., establishment, on Sept. 29 voluntarily expanded its Sept. 25 recall to include a total of approximately 21.7 million pounds of frozen ground beef products because they may be contaminated with E.…

Oct 5, 2007

WASHINGTON - Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation is voluntarily recalling approximately 845,000 pounds of frozen ground beef patties produced at its Butler, Wis., location because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and…

Oct 2, 2007

WASHINGTON The Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security have commenced proceedings before an immigration judge in Atlanta seeking the removal of a Lawrenceville, Ga., resident who served the Nazi SS during World War II as a handler of…

Oct 2, 2007

The latest blockbuster movie filmed in Arizona opened in theaters nationwide on Friday, September 28. "The Kingdom," much of which was filmed in 2006 in Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa and other Arizona locations, stars Academy Award © winner Jamie Foxx, Chris…

Sep 25, 2007

CHICAGO A suspended Chicago Police officer assigned to the elite Special Operations Section (SOS) was arrested today on federal charges for allegedly planning the murder-for-hire of a former fellow police officer. The defendant, Jerome Finnigan, was charged in a criminal…