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Smoke jumper makes his last (official) leap
Dale Longanecker has spent 38 years as one of the most elite of his kind, a smoke jumper. He has parachuted out of airplanes into some of the most remote wildfires in the West carrying little more than a shovel, a gallon of water and a bottle of ibuprofen. He was 19 when he made his first jump, and the Forest Service says his 896 jumps - 362 of whi...
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Much ado about Sarah Palin's emails
Sarah Palin is long gone from this capital, what with the new ranch in Arizona and the is-she-running-or-not bus blitz of American heritage landmarks Outside, as Alaskans like to call the lower 48 states.Yet nearly two years after she resigned as governor and nearly three since Senator John McCain chose her as his running mate, Ms. Palin is steerin...
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How 'confused' teenager became bomb plot suspect
Mohamed Osman Mohamud had seemed to be a well-adjusted American teenager: a solid student whose interests included basketball, girls and the night life at Oregon State University, where he studied engineering. But those who know him say he changed in recent months. He dropped out of school and stopped attending mosque. And, perhaps most telling, he...
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The young US soldier both loved and hated
Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs called to say he did not kill Afghan civilians for the thrill of killing. Nor did he toss severed fingers at the feet of his fellow soldiers to scare them into silence. "All he said was, 'I don't know where these guys are getting this stuff,' " said Eric Thomas, a childhood friend here, shortly after speaking with Sergeant G...
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Drug use cited in the killings of 3 civilians
Members of an American Army unit consumed with drug use randomly chose Afghan civilians to kill and then failed to report the abuses out of fear they would suffer retaliation from their commander, according to testimony in military court here on Monday.
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'Barefoot Bandit': Teen who stoles planes, boats
The "Barefoot Bandit" is not all Colton Harris-Moore has been called in his short splash of life. Neighbors say his mother screamed things at him so vicious that they cringed when her words echoed through the giant evergreens that cover much of this island in Puget Sound. Classmates say he could be a bully -- when he attended school. Yet perhaps hi...
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Smoke jumper makes his last (official) leap
Dale Longanecker has spent 38 years as one of the most elite of his kind, a smoke jumper. He has parachuted out of airplanes into some of the most remote wildfires in the West carrying little more than a shovel, a gallon of water and a bottle of ibuprofen. He was 19 when he made his first jump, and the Forest Service says his 896 jumps - 362 of whi...
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Much ado about Sarah Palin's emails
Sarah Palin is long gone from this capital, what with the new ranch in Arizona and the is-she-running-or-not bus blitz of American heritage landmarks Outside, as Alaskans like to call the lower 48 states.Yet nearly two years after she resigned as governor and nearly three since Senator John McCain chose her as his running mate, Ms. Palin is steerin...
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How 'confused' teenager became bomb plot suspect
Mohamed Osman Mohamud had seemed to be a well-adjusted American teenager: a solid student whose interests included basketball, girls and the night life at Oregon State University, where he studied engineering. But those who know him say he changed in recent months. He dropped out of school and stopped attending mosque. And, perhaps most telling, he...
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The young US soldier both loved and hated
Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs called to say he did not kill Afghan civilians for the thrill of killing. Nor did he toss severed fingers at the feet of his fellow soldiers to scare them into silence. "All he said was, 'I don't know where these guys are getting this stuff,' " said Eric Thomas, a childhood friend here, shortly after speaking with Sergeant G...
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Drug use cited in the killings of 3 civilians
Members of an American Army unit consumed with drug use randomly chose Afghan civilians to kill and then failed to report the abuses out of fear they would suffer retaliation from their commander, according to testimony in military court here on Monday.
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'Barefoot Bandit': Teen who stoles planes, boats
The "Barefoot Bandit" is not all Colton Harris-Moore has been called in his short splash of life. Neighbors say his mother screamed things at him so vicious that they cringed when her words echoed through the giant evergreens that cover much of this island in Puget Sound. Classmates say he could be a bully -- when he attended school. Yet perhaps hi...
