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$3,800 in Dumpster: Would you give it up?
He really could have used that $3,800. But Joe Ellis is an honest man. Saturday night, Ellis (video below) was searching a Dumpster in Tennessee for recycled cans to turn in for extra cash when he hit the mother lode: a plastic bag full of hundred-... -
The story behind the photo: A U.S. Marine salutes the flag in Iraq
FrameworkAs U.S. and allied forces advanced toward Baghdad 10 years ago, a military public affairs sergeant snapped a photograph of a Marine saluting the flag at sunset at a desert airfield in southern Iraq. Taken on April 3, 2003, it was one of many images... -
James M. Buchanan dies at 93; won Nobel Prize in economics
James M. Buchanan, the U.S. economist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for applying the principles of economic self-interest to understand why politicians do what they do, has died. He was 93. He died Wednesday at a hospital in Blacksburg, Va., according to...
Tags: University of Chicago, Middle Tennessee State University , Nobel Prize Awards, World War II (1939-1945), Awards and Prizes
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Book review: 'The Hunt for KSM' is a true thriller
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe tale told by former Los Angeles Times reporters Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer in "The Hunt for KSM," the story of the pursuit, capture and interrogation of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of9/11, at times so resembles something straight out of...Tags: Central Park, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Crime, Law and Justice, FBI
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Herman Cain to Iran: 'If you mess with Israel you're messing with the USA'
Top of the TicketHerman Cain laid out his Cain Doctrine Sunday and continued his verbal barbs against Islam... -
Fighting mosques in the name of freedom
Last year, a Muslim congregation in Murfreesboro, Tenn., a pleasant college town of about 110,000 people southeast of Nashville, decided that the time had come to build a proper mosque.
For 20 years or more, the town's roughly 250 Muslim families had met...Tags: Baptist, Saudi Arabia, Freedom of Religion, Crime, Law and Justice, Land Price
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Vandalism at Madera mosque one of several incidents under investigation by Justice Department
L.A. NOWVandalism at a mosque in Madera, Calif., is one of several apparently anti-Muslim incidents being investigated by the Justice Department in four states, including the stabbing of a Muslim cab driver in New York City, officials said Tuesday. Other... -
Military deaths
The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq: Micheal B. Alleman, 31, of Logan, Utah; corporal, Army. Alleman was among three soldiers killed Monday when their unit was attacked with...Tags: Afghanistan, Melbourne, U.S. Department of Defense, Baghdad (Iraq), Bombings
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The Plots and Designs of Al Qaeda's Engineer
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersSenior Pakistani and American intelligence officials say the operational commander of Al Qaeda, the man believed to have planned the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, narrowly avoided capture during a raid in which authorities took his two young sons...Tags: Afghanistan, Asia, Bombings, Terrorism, World War II (1939-1945)
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BRIEF: Amber Alert issued for 8-year-old Tennessee boy
Knoxville News SentinelThe Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has issued an Amber Alert for 8-year-old Gabriel Swaney of Murfreesboro, a white male standing four feet tall and weighing 100 pounds, with blonde hair and brown eyes. Last seen in a navy shirt with a cartoon... -
Corporate, PAC cash left off campaign reports
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.Fifty-one legislative candidates last year failed to report a total of $145,875 in contributions from political action committees and corporations, according to a state watchdog agency's check of campaign finance filings. Among them were two top House...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Ethics, Politics, Bill Haslam, Religion and Belief
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East Hamilton Hurricanes strand 12 in loss to Bees
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.East Hamilton couldn't get the hits when needed and left 12 baserunners stranded in a season-ending 7-4 baseball loss at Upperman. The Hurricanes, who boarded a school bus at 6:30 Friday morning to play the Class AA sectional game in Baxter, Tenn., left...Tags: Minor League Baseball
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