The Associated Press NORTHFIELD, Vt. — Burgeoning ranks of Army ROTC students are filling college classrooms around the nation this fall as the Army seeks to beef up its officer corps with its generous scholarship program that pays the college tuition of students who are commissioned as 2nd lieutenants when they graduate. At the hillside [...]
The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Jack Harold Glenn was a World War II fighter pilot who was killed during a firefight as he flew a mission over Germany in 1944, his body coming to rest in a field in a rural village. The silver bracelet Glenn was wearing was given to a 16-year-old boy [...]
The Associated Press COCONUT CREEK, Fla. — Brandon Thomas was hit by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade and twice grazed by bullets fired by the Taliban during his final tour with the Army in Afghanistan. After risking his life, the 27-year-old father and Purple Heart recipient is one of thousands of veterans who now say [...]
Daily Republic TRAVIS AFB — Add one more to the list. The Retired Nurses Association on Thursday presented an award to Phillip Edelman, a retired lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Air Force who already boasts awards from World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. The Fairfield resident was joined in the ceremony [...]
Saturday, Sept. 19 12:11 a.m. — AUDIBLE ALARM 2300 Block of CARVER PL 12:23 a.m. — MISSING JUVENIL 2000 Block of PLUM TREE WY 12:38 a.m. — FOLLOW UP 1000 Block of WEBSTER ST 12:54 a.m. — VEHICLE BURG 1200 Block of TABOR AV 1:14 a.m. — MENTAL DISORDER 3000 Block of REDWOOD DR 1:34 [...]
TONY: On Sept. 26 our oldest brother turns the big five-oh. To mark this momentous occasion, Kelvin and I put our heads together and decided the cheapest thing we could get him would be to type in our respective living rooms and gift him with words that exist only in cyberspace. Thus, this (cheap) column [...]
Friday, Sept. 18 12:11 a.m. — AUDIBLE ALARM 2300 Block of CARVER PL 12:23 a.m. — MISSING JUVENIL 2000 Block of PLUM TREE WY 12:38 a.m. — FOLLOW UP 1000 Block of WEBSTER ST 12:54 a.m. — VEHICLE BURG 1200 Block of TABOR AV 1:14 a.m. — MENTAL DISORDER 3000 Block of REDWOOD DR 1:34 [...]
Associated Press Writer DAHLONEGA, Ga. — Drenched in sweat, Army Capt. Aaron Hall peeled off his soggy socks and applied a liberal dose of foot powder before slipping on a dry pair and rallying his troops back to their throbbing feet. For an outfit used to being ferried from fight to fight in armored vehicles, [...]
Associated Press Writer ORLANDO, Fla. — Where someone lives makes a difference in whether or not that person has health insurance. Census data released this week shows a vast geographic inequality in the uninsured that has been shaped by an area’s state laws, population makeup and jobs. Residents in vast swaths of the Southwest are [...]
Wednesday, Sept. 23 12:04 a.m. — TRAFFIC STOP HWY 12/LAWLER RANCH PKWY 12:06 a.m. — 911 HANG UP 242 POTRERO ST 12:39 a.m. — SECURITY CHECK 299 MARINA BL 12:46 a.m. — TC NO INJURIES 1300 PINTAIL DR 1:25 a.m. — REPOSSESSION 333 BALD PATE DR 2:03 a.m. — BIKE STOP GOLDEN EYE WY/PINTAIL DR [...]
Associated Press Writer TORONTO — Sit tight, “Brothers & Sisters†fans. It looks like Rob Lowe and Calista Flockhart’s characters are headed for a make up not a break up. Lowe, 45, plays Robert McCallister, a United States Senator, married to Flockhart’s Kitty Walker. The pair hit the rocks last season after they adopted a [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — More than 100 Travis families were treated to dinner and a visit from California’s first lady Maria Shriver Wednesday night as part of the state’s We Are Family Day. Shriver spent a half hour at the base talking about the need for more families to rediscover the tradition [...]
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