Washington (CNN) — Some Marine Corps families, mourning a son or daughter killed in action, received an unexpected surprise for the holidays: an ornament of the Purple Heart, a letter addressed to their fallen hero and even information about athletic reconditioning. The Marine Corps was apologizing Tuesday for sending the packages to families of the [...]
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December 14, 2011
December 14, 2011
Purple Heart ornaments sent to wrong families
Washington (CNN) — Some Marine Corps families, mourning a son or daughter killed in action, received an unexpected surprise for the holidays: an ornament of the Purple Heart, a letter addressed to their fallen hero and even information about athletic reconditioning. The Marine Corps was apologizing Tuesday for sending the packages to families of the [...]
December 11, 2011
Durban talks: how Connie Hedegaard got countries to agree on climate deal
Connie Hedegaard, the EU’s climate chief, has been hailed the hero of the Durban meeting that reached an unexpectedly solid outcome in the early hours of Sunday . “She is very, very good and we are very lucky to have her,” says Chris Huhne, the UK energy and climate change secretary. “She held everything together [...]
October 27, 2011
Is Batman the hero that Occupy protesters need? | Stephen Kelly
He’s the hero that Gotham deserves, but is he the hero that Occupy Wall Street needs? This weekend, following speculation that Christopher Nolan is going to use the protests as a backdrop for scenes in The Dark Knight Rises, the movement could play host to a caped crusader who’s both friend and foe. And if [...]
October 26, 2011
Zurana Horton was a hero – she just didn’t look like one | Teresa Wiltz
At first blush, it’s the kind of story made for the insta-news cycle of 21st-century media: a mother picking up her kid up from school in Brooklyn spots a rooftop sniper, throws herself into the line of fire to protect a group of schoolkids and, while saving them, is shot and killed herself. Most likely, [...]
September 27, 2011
127 Hours: the sequel
The desire to pay homage to your favourite film isn’t new: that’s why Carnforth tea room is still packed 66 years after Brief Encounter and romcom fans ram the Empire State Building every Valentine’s Day in tribute to Sleepless in Seattle. But few have followed in their cinematic hero’s footsteps so slavishly as Amos Wayne [...]
June 30, 2011
Texas town pulls the plug on police department
Attention gun-toting Texas natives: if you were looking to go a’looting, your time is now! City Council members in Alto, Texas, a town of around 1,200, have voted to abolish the city’s police department for at least six months as the community considers if they will be able to afford the force into 2012. As [...]
June 29, 2011
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June 15, 2011
Airport Workers Honored for Stopping Rape
DENVER — Police say the Frontier Airlines’ employees who came to the aid of a woman being assaulted at Denver International Airport are being honored for their actions. Denver police said Mark Adams and Kris Musil will be presented with the Bill Daniels Neighborhood Hero Awards for assisting a woman they was being raped at [...]
June 14, 2011
‘Act of Valor’ SEALs Movie Lands at Perfect Time, After bin Laden Death
Relativity Media will reach the beachhead first with a movie about the Navy SEALs — and featuring active-duty members of the elite force — beating another project to the punch with rights to a film that had been in the making for two years before a SEALs team killed Osama bin Laden last month. “Act [...]
May 21, 2011
FBI Wants Unabomber’s DNA for 1982 Tylenol Poisoning Probe
May 19 (Bloomberg) — The FBI is seeking DNA from Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, who’s serving a life sentence for killing three people with homemade bombs, in connection with the 1982 Tylenol poisonings Seven people in the Chicago area died, and thousands of bottles of the over-the-counter painkiller were withdrawn. The case was never solved. Kaczynski [...]
April 20, 2011
Is this Reporter History after Obama interview…
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0411/nobody_interrupts_potus_480c750d-358b-487e-8416-24b1e907c727.html Obama gets talked to as a human and he does not like it… Common Obama the pressure getting to you? Keep an eye out for what happens to this reporter. Just keep an eye on it… He should be a hero and give a gold star… The president of the United States was not [...]