Police say suspect in terror plot attempted suicide in 2005

March 10th, 2010

Colleen LaRose, the Pennsylvania woman indicted for allegedly conspiring to support terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, attempted to commit suicide in 2005, according to a police report filed at the time.

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Back from Iraq war, and alone

March 10th, 2010

A few days after I had returned from a six-month deployment to Iraq, my second sojourn in the Middle East since 2001, I remember feeling like I was an alien creature from some other planet.

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N.Y. State Police loses second chief in 2 weeks

March 10th, 2010

New York state’s top police official announced Wednesday he was quitting, the second acting superintendent to step down in as many weeks.

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Google adds bike routes to online maps

March 10th, 2010

Peter Smith was riding his bike down a particularly busy road in Austin, Texas, when, amid a frightening blur of big-truck traffic, a thought hit him:

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U.S. airman killed on duty in Haiti

March 10th, 2010

Air Force Lt. Col. Ken Bourland hugged his wife, Peggy, goodbye and headed out for his two-day mission.

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Clinton: Improving foreign health is good policy

March 10th, 2010

Aside from a moral obligation, improving the health of people in other nations is smart foreign policy, former President Clinton said Wednesday.

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Extremists of any color or belief can commit terrorism

March 10th, 2010

Within the last month, our country has witnessed two senseless, high-profile acts of criminal violence that would have been labeled terrorism if brown-skinned Arab Muslim men with foreign-sounding names had committed them.

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Jihad Jane, American who lived on Main Street

March 10th, 2010

The Pennsylvania woman who dubbed herself Jihad Jane is an American who lived literally on Main Street in an apartment where she spent much time online, posting messages saying she was “desperate to do something” to help Muslims.

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Academy apologizes for Farrah Fawcett snub

March 10th, 2010

It was no oversight.

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Chief justice chides State of the Union as ‘political pep rally’

March 10th, 2010

Simmering tension between the White House and U.S. Supreme Court spilled into public this week when Chief Justice John Roberts labeled the political atmosphere at the State of the Union address “very troubling.”

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