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Woman leaves $40,000 at Md. shrine for safekeeping

HAGERSTOWN, Md. - A woman quietly left $40,000 worth of rare U.S. coins near a Catholic shrine for safekeeping so the Virgin Mary could watch over her life savings while she was out of town, and apparently it worked: The money was returned to her when ...

From DAVID DISHNEAU, Access Atlanta Vendor,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Virgin Mary

US city aims for balance with Dred Scott plaque

More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming slavery, a Maryland city unveiled a plaque Tuesday to educate visitors about the opinion and the local man who wrote it _ and to quell a local ...

From DAVID DISHNEAU, eTaiwan News,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Supreme Court of the United States,  U.S. Congress,  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

No reprieve for Beltway sniper Muhammad

RICHMOND - The Supreme Court refused yesterday to block the execution of Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad, who coordinated the 2002 shooting spree that left 10 dead in the Washington region. Muhammad, 41, is to be executed by lethal injection tonight. ...

From DAVID DISHNEAU, Boston Globe,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Allen Muhammad,  John Paul Stevens,  Ruth Bader Ginsburg,  Sonia Sotomayor,  Lee Boyd Malvo

DC area relives terror as sniper's execution nears

When James D. Martin was shot dead seven years ago in the parking lot of a grocery store in suburban Washington, it got little attention on the nightly news. Early the next morning, a landscaper was fatally shot in nearby Rockville, also by a ...

From DAVID DISHNEAU, TheNewsTribune.com,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: James D. Martin,  Charles Moose,  John Allen Muhammad,  Lee Boyd Malvo,  Supreme Court of the United States

Marine gets 18 months confinement for hero hoax

QUANTICO, Va. - A Marine Corps sergeant was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months confinement and fined $25,000 for pretending to be an injured war hero to get free seats at rock concerts and professional sporting events. ...

From DAVID DISHNEAU, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: US Marine Corps,  Counting Crows,  Washington Redskins,  Washington Nationals

Marine sentenced to 18 months in hero hoax case

Marine Sgt. David Budwah leaves LeJuene Hall during a break in his court-martial hearing in Quantico, Va., Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. Budwah pleaded guilty to a variety of charges relating to faking war injuries in order to get freebies meant for ...

From DAVID DISHNEAU ASSOCIATED PRESS, The San Jose Mercury News,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: US Marine Corps

U.S. marine pleads guilty to ‘hero hoax'

A Marine Corps sergeant pleaded guilty Wednesday to faking post-traumatic stress disorder and pretending to be an injured hero to get in free to rock concerts and professional sporting events. Sgt. David Budwah pleaded guilty to nine charges, including ...

From DAVID DISHNEAU, Globe and Mail,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: US Marine Corps,  Washington Redskins,  Washington Nationals

Crowd retraces John Brown's incendiary footsteps

HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Just as cold, damp weather couldn't quench John Brown's incendiary fervor, it didn't discourage those determined to follow the radical abolitionist's footsteps Friday, 150 years after he launched the raid that kindled the Civil War. ...

From DAVID DISHNEAU, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: John Brown

Crowd to retrace John Brown's incendiary footsteps

HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Just as cold, damp weather couldn't quench John Brown's incendiary fervor, it didn't discourage those determined to follow the radical abolitionist's footsteps Friday, 150 years after he launched the raid that kindled the Civil War. ...

From DAVID DISHNEAU, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: John Brown

Soldier appeals Abu Ghraib conviction

WASHINGTON - A female soldier who was photographed giving a smiling “thumbs-up’’ beside a pyramid of naked Abu Ghraib detainees should have her criminal conviction overturned because parading prisoners in the nude was apparently Army policy, her ...

From DAVID DISHNEAU, Boston Globe,  14 Oct 2009

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