Beef Jerky News“To us he wasn’t really a war hero, he was just a hero, period,’’ Tracy Compton told the Herald. Lynn Compton also is remembered for his legal career in California. He headed the team that prosecuted Sirhan B. Sirhan for the slaying of Robert F. Kennedy and was appointed to the 2nd District Court of [...]
The gesture of a 24-year-old youth, Deepak Patolat, to donate kidneys of his mother admitted to the Command Hospital on February 22 and declared brain dead, has given a new lease of life to a 34-year-old soldier in the final stage of renal failure. One kidney was transplanted on the soldier (identity not disclosed) by [...]
Font Size: MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The public will get a chance this week to sound off on a Republican bill that would establish a wolf hunt in Wisconsin. Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin wolves came off the federal endangered species list last year. The change means the states are free to manage their wolves as [...]
Editor’s Note: This report includes details from trial testimony that may be disturbing. A Colorado Springs tow truck driver’s reputation as a “textbook” guy drew fire Friday as defense attorneys for Detra Farries peppered his former co-workers with questions over safe towing procedures. “is it textbook to hook a cable to a running vehicle?” public [...]
WESTMINSTER — Navy Lt. Cmdr. Todd Moores slipped out of town quietly for his deployment to Afghanistan a year ago, but the community is making up for it with his welcome home. It started with a police escort on his way through town and signs welcoming him home Wednesday. Moores’ wife, Amy, enlisted the help [...]
February 22, 2012|By Eloísa Ruano González, Orlando Sentinel Mark Morse, president and chief operating officer of the mammoth Villages retirement community northwest of Orlando, has been fined a total of $4,500 but avoided prison time in a highly publicized Montana poaching case, court officials said Wednesday. Morse, 51, pleaded guilty to hunting without a license, [...]
Punter Steve Weatherford played a huge role in the Giants’ Super Bowl triumph.(US Presswire) INDIANAPOLIS — if you’re at this year’s NFL scouting combine, you want to hear about draft prospects like Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III and Trent Richardson. what you don’t want to hear about are guys who excel at special teams, and [...]
Onslow County citizens interested in finding out if they have ancestors who fought in the Civil War may get the answer to that question — or learn how to find the answer themselves — at this weekend’s celebration of Onslow County Black Civil War Soldiers and Sailors. In celebration of Black History Month, the Onslow [...]
GIVE IT UP FOR LENT: My God, Lent is here already and, as always, we don’t know what sort of sacrifice we’re going to make during the 40-day (more or less) period of voluntary (and mandatory) abstinence. just as with Christmas shopping, and everything else, for that matter, we make up our mind at the [...]
A top Afghan health ministry official supports moving injection drug users off heroin and onto methadone as a way to combat HIV/AIDS. “By stopping drug use, you stop HIV transmission in our community,” said Sayed Habib, the health ministry’s top drugs official.However, treatment programs are the target of organized criminals who earn money from the [...]
