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U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 21, 2007 @ 12:39am neoform

FOX News -- A school crossing guard accused of molesting seven children was charged with more than 1,000 counts of sexual assault. Dale Hutchings was arrested Tuesday and charged with 305 counts of raping a child, 356 counts of aggravated indecent assault against.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 5:00pm neoform

FOX News -- Three masked bank robbers shot a security guard, starting a shootout in a bank Tuesday morning that wounded a teller and a customer before the suspects fled, authorities said. The suspects were only in the bank for four or five minutes and got away wit.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 24, 2007 @ 2:36pm neoform

CNN -- The U.S. Coast Guard unloaded nearly 20 tons of cocaine with a retail street value of $600 million at a California port Monday following what they called the largest drug bust at sea. The armed Coast Guard Cutter Sherman made the bust March 17 when it.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 12, 2007 @ 11:53pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A jail guard has been suspended after allegedly thumping an inmate with a Bible. James Lee Sheppard, 56, has been charged with two gross misdemeanors for allegedly swatting a Blue Earth County Jail inmate with the book, grabbing him by the throat and s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 9:51pm neoform

ABC News -- At nearly 20 tons, it's the largest maritime cocaine bust in U.S. history. The U.S. Coast Guard announced today that it seized 42,845 pounds of the drug from the Gatun, a Panamanian ship. Two of the Coast Guard's cutters approached the ship Sunday after a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 1, 2007 @ 9:34am mrmdc

CBS News -- You really don't notice them until they're not there. Looking closely at some northern California freeways you can see huge chunks of guard rail are now missing... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 11, 2007 @ 4:53pm mrmdc

Houston Chronicle -- For the first time since President Bush mobilized the National Guard and Reserve after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Pentagon is abandoning its limit on the time a citizen-soldier can be required to serve on active duty... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 11, 2006 @ 11:33pm neoform

CNN -- The nation's citizen soldiers, already strained by long tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, could be tapped again under new plans being developed by the Pentagon... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Nov 5, 2006 @ 2:38pm neoform

Washington Post -- The Army's National Guard and Reserve are bracing for possible new and accelerated call-ups, spurred by high demand for U.S. troops in Iraq, that leaders caution could undermine the citizen-soldier force as it struggles to rebuild... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 16, 2008 @ 8:10am neoform

SF Gate -- A federal appeals court has upheld $600,000 in damages to a state prison guard who said she was fired after complaining that she was being harassed by naked male inmates. The complaints by Deanna Freitag led to an investigation by the state Department.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 29, 2008 @ 8:05am neoform

SF Gate -- Coast Guard officials who boarded the Cosco Busan to determine how much oil had spilled into the San Francisco Bay had trouble communicating with the Chinese-speaking crew - and ultimately had to use drawings and hand gestures. The new detail, containe.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 19, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- The first major congressional hearing into the "chain of errors" in the San Francisco Bay oil spill begins Monday at the Presidio, and the questions are almost certain to produce damning answers for the Coast Guard and for the operators of the ship that s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 12, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- The city of San Francisco offered 150 specially trained municipal workers to help clean up beaches and save birds - but essentially got shrugged off by the Coast Guard, according to the city's acting mayor and the president of the Board of Supervisors... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 5, 2007 @ 12:35pm neoform

www.wcsh6.com -- When they came home from Iraq, 2,600 members of the Minnesota National Guard had been deployed longer than any other ground combat unit. The tour lasted 22 months and had been extended as part of President Bush's surge. 1st Lt. Jon Anderson said he nev.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 28, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

USA Today -- The U.S. Army is turning to the National Guard for help recruiting would-be soldiers in hometowns across America. Army leaders, struggling to meet recruitment goals in the midst of a long and unpopular war in Iraq, are quietly working out final details.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- Police have recovered a small computer drive containing Social Security numbers and other personal information about every Army National Guard soldier in Idaho. Police returned the device to the Guard for investigation, police Lt. Alan Cavener said. He.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Jul 11, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

USA Today -- A growing number of states are cutting college tuition for recent veterans in a show of gratitude, but also in some cases to fill gaps in the federal GI Bill. Though most of the state laws honor veterans for their sacrifices, some also address disparities.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 12:38pm neoform

SF Gate -- A former school security guard accused of keeping a teenage runaway in his home for a decade and having sex with her pleaded guilty Tuesday, the opening day of his trial. Thomas John Hose, 49, took in the 14-year-old girl and kept her from leaving the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jun 17, 2007 @ 10:38pm neoform

FOX News -- One day after a drag-racing car careened into a crowd and killed six people, witnesses questioned on Sunday why the driver was allowed to speed down a highway with no guard rails, lined on both sides by hundreds of spectators. "It ain't really safe to.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 15, 2007 @ 12:23pm neoform

USA Today -- National Guard units in 31 states say four years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan have left them with 60% or less of their authorized equipment, a USA TODAY review found. Eighteen of those 31 states report having half or fewer of the vehicles, aircraft,.. Read More