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    May 7, 2013 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  1. Feedback for Wednesday, May 8

    Local high schools recognized nationally Seven local public high schools are ranked among the top 2,000 in the nation, according to an online list released by Newsweek magazine Monday. More than 5,000 schools were invited to participate and nearly 2,...

    Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Politics, York (York, Pennsylvania), High Schools, Schools

    2. Apr 21, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  2. Prosecutors face tough call on death penalty in Boston case

    Reuters
    * Decision rests with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder * Tsarnaev's youth, state of mind likely key factors * "Significant likelihood" death will be sought -Chertoff By Jessica Dye NEW YORK, April 21 (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors may seek the death...

    Tags: Timothy McVeigh, Crime, Law and Justice, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Michael Chertoff, Washington, DC

    3. Jun 29, 2012 |Story| Herald Mail

  3. Hagerstown sets new weather record with hottest day ever in June

    A new weather record was set in Hagerstown on Friday.
    caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.com
    A new weather record was set in Hagerstown on Friday. The temperature reached 100.7 degrees at 3:57 p.m., the hottest day in June ever recorded in Hagerstown, according to i4weather.net, a website operated by local weather observer Greg Keefer. It...

    Tags: Fishing Forecast, Sports, Swimming

    4. Nov 11, 2011 |Story| Herald Mail

  4. Local veterans organizations place wreaths at the memorial in Martin L. "Marty" Snook Park

    More than 80 people gathered on a cold, blustery Friday morning for a ceremony to honor the 22 million surviving veterans who have served in the armed forces and the millions more who have died, either in military service or long past their discharge or retirement dates.
    dona@herald-mail.com
    More than 80 people gathered on a cold, blustery Friday morning for a ceremony to honor the 22 million surviving veterans who have served in the armed forces and the millions more who have died, either in military service or long past their discharge or...

    Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Human Interest, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War II (1939-1945)

    5. Jun 2, 2009 |Story| Associated Press
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    Tags: U.S. Military, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Prisons, Wars and Interventions

    6. Dec 16, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Whereas at last Obama officially publishes said memo creating Gitmo North in Illinois of all places

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    Full text of Democrat president's historic memo with accompanying commentary in same style....
    7. Oct 4, 2009 |Story| KCPQ-LTV

  7. Eight US Soldiers Killed in All Day Battle At Remote Outposts In Afghanistan

    Eight U.S. Soldiers have died after hundreds of insurgents armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades storms a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border. 20 Afghan security troops were also captured.
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    Eight U.S. Soldiers have died after hundreds of insurgents armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades storms a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border. 20 Afghan security troops were also captured. The battle started at dawn on Saturday and...

    Tags: U.S. Military, Memphis, U.S. Department of Defense, Wars and Interventions, Al-Qaeda

    8. Dec 14, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. 'Liberty'

    Most Americans would probably agree with the 19th century abolitionist Wendell Phillips that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." But our vigilance has been erratic, and we have paid the price for our inattention. This nation's history is littered...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Wars and Interventions, Civil Rights, Barack Obama

    9. Jan 11, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. A voice from Gitmo's darkness

    JUMAH AL-DOSSARI is a 33-year-old citizen of Bahrain. This article was excerpted from letters he wrote to his attorneys. Its contents have been deemed unclassified by the Department of Defense.
    Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba — I AM WRITING from the darkness of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo in the hope that I can make our voices heard by the world. My hand quivers as I hold the pen. In January 2002, I was picked up in Pakistan,...

    Tags: Abusive Behavior, Wars and Interventions, National Security, Cuba, Al-Qaeda

    10. Oct 12, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. The shadow of Gitmo

    Among the most ignoble legacies of the George W. Bush administration will be the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Administration officials drunk on executive power, disdainful of due process and indifferent to international opinion established -- in a territory they wrongly thought was beyond the reach of law -- a prison camp whose inmates comprised both dangerous terrorists and bystanders caught up in the post-9/11 dragnet in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
    Among the most ignoble legacies of the George W. Bush administration will be the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Administration officials drunk on executive power, disdainful of due process and indifferent...

    Tags: U.S. Military, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Prisons

    11. Dec 10, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. How to try terrorists

    In confessing <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-guantanamo-plea9-2008dec09%2C0%2C5787969.story">responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, </a> Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other defendants may have hastened just punishment for their roles in an atrocity that killed <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/10/national/main4250100.shtml">almost 3,000 </a> people. Satisfaction at that possibility is tempered, however, by a realization that the way these "high value" detainees have been treated has sullied this country's reputation. It will be up to President-elect Barack Obama to repair the damage.
    In confessing responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other defendants may have hastened just punishment for their roles in an atrocity that killed almost 3,000 people. Satisfaction at that possibility is tempered, however, by...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Justice System, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama

    12. Dec 9, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. The Supreme Court's habeas hearing

    Afew months after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government transported almost 700 suspected terrorists who had been captured abroad to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, where the Bush administration assumed -- wrongly -- that they would have no...

    Tags: U.S. Military, Trials, Germany, England, Crime, Law and Justice

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