Thursday, April 1st, 2010

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Thursday, April 1st, 2010

C.O.P.S. hits $1 million mark for scholarships given to surviving spouses and children of fallen L.E.O.s.

Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) is both proud and honored to announce the organization has just surpassed the $1 million mark in scholarships given to surviving spouses and children of fallen law enforcement officers.
Concerns of Police Survivors believes that higher education for any child should not be put in jeopardy or disrupted because of the [...]

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Half of New York City’s subway security cameras do not work.

There are 4,313 subway security cameras on platforms and in the tunnels of the New York city’s subway system. Trouble is, only 2,270 work. The other 2,043 cameras do not. The cameras are operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). “A lot of those cameras don’t work, and maybe someday we’re going to get very [...]

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Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Winner of the ArmaLite Truckload Sale and Contest announced!

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Thursday, April 1st, 2010

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Obama backs “green” military at Andrews Airforce Base conference.

Flanked by an F/A-18 Super Hornet and a Light Armored Vehicle, yesterday President Obama vowed to end America’s dependence on foreign oil.
And the U.S. military, he said, is leading the effort, developing air and ground vehicles that can use biofuels — synthetic mixes of conventional JP-8 fuel and gas made from animal fats or plants.
Obama’s [...]

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

U.S. warship captures suspected pirate mother ship.

The USS Nicholas came under fire from a pirate vessel and then captured it.
A U.S. warship sank a pirate skiff and captured a pirate mother ship in the Indian Ocean on Thursday, according to a statement from U.S. Naval Forces Africa.
The frigate USS Nicholas came under fire from a pirate vessel shortly after midnight in [...]

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Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Honolulu woman shoots, wounds two robbery suspects.

Two suspected robbers were seriously wounded Tuesday by a woman police said may have been defending herself and her wounded boyfriend.
The shooting happened on Kilea Place in Wahiawa Heights at about 10:20 p.m. Tuesday.
Police said two men armed with guns and zip-ties approached the home, which was rented by the couple and their two young [...]

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

18 gunmen killed in attacks on Mexican army bases.

Dozens of gunmen mounted rare and apparently coordinated attacks targeting two army garrisons in northern Mexico, touching off firefights that killed 18 attackers.
The attempts to blockade soldiers inside their bases — part of seven near-simultaneous attacks across two northern states — appeared to mark a serious escalation in Mexico’s drug war, in which cartel gunmen [...]