GAO orders review of $3 billion Army contract
AP - Mon Dec 14, 7:33 pm ETThe U.S. Army must re-evaluate a $3 billion contract awarded to the Oshkosh Corp. for 23,000 military trucks and trailers, congressional investigators said Monday.
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A fallen soldier returns
Paris Beacon-News - Mon Dec 14, 2:46 pm ET(Beacon-News Photo/A. Evans) The body of Sgt. Kenneth Nichols Jr. was transported from Chrisman to Danville by processional Friday morning. Nichols, 28, was killed Dec. 1 while serving in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan and leaves behind a wife and four children. A Georgetown resident and graduate, he was a member of the Chrisman American Legion Post 477. American Legion, VFW and 40 & 8 members ...
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Welcom home Soldier!
Odessa American - Mon Dec 14, 2:45 pm ETThe Permian Basin Welcome Home Committee is rounding up people to greet Jose H. Gonzales of the U.S. Army when he returns home. Gonzales is scheduled to return at 3:45 p.m. Friday at the Midland International Airport.
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Commentary: President Petraeus?
UPI - Mon Dec 14, 8:03 am ETBy ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE UPI Editor at Large WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A three-way deal between the Afghan government, warlords and Taliban chief Mullah Omar is one way of keeping al-Qaida out of Afghanistan. After Iraq, we cannot afford another trillion-dollar war. Fewer than half the American public and only 41 percent of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations believe the Taliban’s ...
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Levee Board Votes for Corps-Approved Plan
Jackson Free Press - Mon Dec 14, 2:42 pm ETThe Rankin-Hinds Pearl River Flood and Drainage Control District voted this morning to move head with a levees-only flood-control plan endorsed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Mandeville City Council honors Leo Edgerson
St. Tammany News - Tue Dec 15, 1:45 am ETThe Rev. Leo Edgerson was honored at the Mandeville City Council meeting Thursday night after retiring from the city’s Civil Service Board.
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Lyons gets long list
St. Tammany News - Tue Dec 15, 1:45 am ETMandeville Mayor Edward “Bubby” Lyons has whittled down the list of 42 applicants for the position of chief of police to a reasonable list of 23 qualified candidates.
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Photo: Reno soldier working with locals in Afghanistan
Carson Times - Mon Dec 14, 2:34 pm ETNURISTAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan - U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Gilbert Lenz II, with the Nuristan Provincial Reconstruction Team security force, from Reno, talks with local students and their teacher in Lowkar village in eastern Afghanistan's Nuristan province, Dec. 10. The Nuristan PRT makes weekly visits to local villages to assess the education and sanitation of the village so they can help the locals ...
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The Race for Collin County District Attorney
The Frisco Enterprise - Tue Dec 15, 1:32 am ETCollin County's District Attorney will have a new face at the helm beginning January 2011. Two term District Attorney John Roach has announced that he will not be seeking re-election. Following that announcement, several candidates have announced their intentions to run for the position.
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TMHS holds Career Day
Tewksbury Town Crier - Tue Dec 15, 1:27 am ETTEWKSBURY - Tewksbury Public Schools conducted “Career Day” on November 24, 2009 at Tewksbury Memorial High School. Over 240 juniors were presented career overviews from representatives of 17 various careers.
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GAO orders review of $3 billion Army contract
AP via Yahoo! Finance - Mon Dec 14, 7:33 pm ETThe U.S. Army must re-evaluate a $3 billion contract awarded to the Oshkosh Corp. for 23,000 military trucks and trailers, congressional investigators said Monday.
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Spc. Jeremiah A. Church U.S. Army, Silver Star Iraq
Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise - Tue Dec 15, 1:37 am ETOn the face of it, the Aug. 8, 2007 assignment to restore the flow of water to a village near Baqubah, Iraq, seemed simple enough. Find the damage to a system sabotaged by insurgents and repair it.
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'Welcome Home'
The Times of Northwest Indiana - Mon Dec 14, 11:05 pm ETCROWN POINT | Kevin Scanlon recalls arriving at Travis Air ForceBase in California aboard a medical transport in 1970 after beinginjured fighting in Vietnam with the U.S. Army 's 199th LightInfantry Brigade.
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Corps wants input on BLM breach project
The World - Tue Dec 15, 1:08 am ETThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking comments on an application for a permit to breach the New River Spit at three sites between Bandon and Langlois.
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Federal funds tapped to fight invasive carp threatening Great Lakes
Pioneer Press - Tue Dec 15, 1:17 am ETFederal officials said Monday they would use $13 million in Great Lakes restoration funds to step up the fight against invasive Asian carp.
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Ozark city attorney to be able to carry gun in meetings
The Springfield News-Leader - 1 hour 46 minutes agoOzark -- The Ozark Board of Aldermen unanimously passed a resolution Monday to allow City Attorney David Collignon to carry a city-issued concealed weapon in meetings.
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