Defense
Recent editorials published in Indiana newspapers
The Times, Munster. June 17, 2013. Rehabilitated criminals need second chance Getting and keeping a job can help keep reformed criminals out of prison. The honest income makes a difference. But a criminal record can be a barrier to employment. Some employers are naturally skittish about hiring ex-convicts. So beginning ...
Israeli general warns of unrest if no peace talks
Failure to restart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations could stir unrest in the West Bank, Israel's top army commander in the territory warned Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon, who commands the Israeli military in the West Bank, said Tuesday that U.S Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts helped calm the situation in the ...
Simulator gives Muncie police real-world training
Members of the Muncie Police Department are getting some high-tech firearms training without leaving City Hall. A crew from Indiana Simulator Systems visited the department last week to give officers a chance to test their responses without risk of injury. The Star Press reports (http://tspne.ws/13Yj3L3 ) the training uses a ...
Anchorage man in critical condition after shooting
A 19-year-old man shot during an altercation in southwest Anchorage is in critical condition. The man was found shot early Monday morning outside a home on Victor Road off Dimond Boulevard. Anchorage Police Department spokeswoman Dani Myren tells KTUU-TV (http://bit.ly/16dV2kW) that officers were called to the home at 1:24 a.m. ...
US military plans to put women in most combat jobs
U.S. military leaders are ready to begin tearing down the remaining walls that have prevented women from holding thousands of combat and special operations jobs near the front lines. Under details of the plans obtained by The Associated Press, women could start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as ...
Editorials from around Pennsylvania
THE VETERANS AFFAIRS/LEGIONELLA MESS: IT GROWS AND GROWS Just when you thought the Legionella scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs' hospitals in Pittsburgh couldn't get any worse, it explodes. As the Trib reported on Sunday, the bacteria that can lead to Legionnaires' disease were running rampant at the VA's ...
Texas governor woos disgruntled Conn. gun makers
Texas Gov. Rick Perry extolled the tax policies and regulatory climate of his state as he courted gun manufacturers that have threatened to leave Connecticut since the state passed new gun-control laws in response to the Newtown school massacre. Perry shot at a firing range at Connecticut's venerable Colt Manufacturing ...
Witness: Man who disrupted flight ranted about CIA
A man loudly ranted about national security, the CIA and international spying aboard a flight from Hong Kong to Newark Monday, causing passengers to tackle him and bind his hands and feet for the duration of the flight. The FBI met United Airlines Flight 116 as it landed at Newark ...
Obama: Secret data gathering 'transparent'
President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview, and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in secret. "It is transparent," Obama told Public Broadcasting Service's Charlie Rose in an interview broadcast late Monday. "That's why we set up ...
Obama: NSA secret data gathering 'transparent'
President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in secret. "It is transparent," Obama told PBS' Charlie Rose in an interview broadcast Monday. "That's why we set up the FISA ...
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