Beef Jerky NewsLA GRANGE — A Kinston dump truck driver who reportedly dozed off while travelling west on U.S. 70 survived several sharp jolts to his body when his trailer tractor ran off the highway and collided with a ditch. David Jarman, a 52-year-old self-employed truck driver, walked away from his five-axle commercial hauler with minor cuts [...]
A 26-year-old U.S. Army first lieutenant from Brownsville is the latest soldier from the Rio Grande Valley to die in the Middle East. Andres “Andy” Zermeño died Sunday in Afghanistan from injuries he sustained in the line of duty said his brother the Rev. Joaquin Zermeño, outside his parents’ home in Cameron Park Monday afternoon. Father Joaquin [...]
An asylum-seeker, left, with fresh scars on his forearm, leaves a church service on Christmas Island yesterday. Picture: Colin Murty. Source: the Australian LONG-TERM detainees at Christmas Island's main detention centre have spoken out about their frustration and despair on the eve of a tour by politicians from both major parties of the high-security facility [...]
Security forces targeted TTP, not Afghan civilians, says ambassador.PHOTO: EPA/FILE KARACHI: The Afghan foreign ministry summoned Pakistan’s ambassador to Afghanistan on Monday to protest the recent cross-border shelling into the country’s eastern provinces. “Ambassador Mohammad Sadiq was summoned and told to ask his government to immediately stop artillery shelling,” the Afghan ministry of foreign affairs said [...]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 186.45, or 1.67%, to 11,433.18. The S&P 500 added 20.43, or 1.72%, to 1209.11. The Nasdaq rose 34.52, or 1.34%, to 2607.07. The trading panel on CNBC‘s “Fast Money” TV show focused on Research in Motion(RIMM) whose shares were down as much as 19% in after-hours trading after it [...]
Fort Carson soldiers say they have seen a dramatic decrease in violence in one of Afghanistan’s most dangerous cities. Violence in Kandahar, where the post’s 2nd Brigade Combat team has been on patrol since June, was down 70 percent in August compared to the same month a year ago, and followed a 38 percent drop [...]
IT TOOK the killer only a moment to greet Burhanuddin Rabbani with an embrace, push his head against his target’s chest and then detonate explosives hidden inside his turban. the attack on September 20th was over in seconds, but in the long run it will prove far more damaging than the 20-hour rocket and grenade [...]
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (WSVN) — a South Florida teenager has lost his life in a tragic crash. Alejandro Romero was riding in a Honda Civic with his mother when a truck slammed into the car near Riverside Drive and Coral Ridge Drive, Saturday morning. Witness Kim Jachles said, "I heard one crash, heard a second [...]
A hero comes home 8:00am Friday 23rd September 2011 Print Email Comments(0) RETIRED servicemen stood alongside ordinary members of the public and family members to pay their respects to a Darlington soldier killed in Afghanistan. Lance Corporal Jonathan James McKinlay, 33, was one of two fallen soldiers repatriated to the UK yesterday. his body, and [...]
Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan – Many Americans have died in these vineyards. Canadian blood has fertilized this ground, and we kill Taliban in these fields daily. We watch them through UAVs, such as Predators, as they hide their weapons among the rows, or attack us, and often they move undetected. When the Russians came [...]
