Reporters, who could once file dispassionate stories on the topic, have become as hysterical as 12-steppers falling off the wagon when assigned to write a booze story. Alcohol, strictly forbidden by the American military in Iraq and Afghanistan, is involved in a growing number of crimes committed by troops deployed to those countries. solders including the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family by a liquored-up gang from the 101st Airborne Division to...

Young men, some chewing sweet paan (a concoction of betel nut, betel leaves and tobacco), lips and teeth stained red from the paan, wear leather jackets of an unfashionable cut, gold chains, tight pants and sandals. It's a place that's open until way past midnight and where one can snack on a delicious Pakistani-style naan sandwich or tuck into a sumptuous chicken tikka meal. Bollywood tunes are thumping from shops while locals move to the beat towards restaurants and DVD outlets in this...

Green Sun reporter Originally published April 17, 2007 Maryland won't challenge a federal court decision striking down the state's "Fair Share" health care act, ending a two-year effort to force Wal-Mart Stores inc. to pay more for employee health care, Attorney General Douglas F. Green Sun reporter Originally published April 17, 2007 Maryland won't challenge a federal court decision striking down the state's "Fair Share" health care act, ending a two-year effort to force Wal-Mart Stores...

I think what the Tortoise and the Hare means is that if you just do your job every day, in the end, youll have a lot more than if you frantically go after the big score. Its a fathers destiny to repeat the same allegedly amusing one-liners, such as, Gee, ever hear of a fork they were invented in the Iron Age. Its futile to give your children a twenty and expect change. When your teen calls from the house to ask when youre coming home, its not because he misses you. The next time youre...

Connolly said Thigpen was indicted in February by a grand jury for 22 counts of criminal possession-of a forged instrument and one count of second-degree theft of-property Connolly said Thigpen has also been charged with 31 counts of writing a worthless instrument. Man caught in Mississippi FLORENCE -- A man indicted for writing checks on a dead man's account has been arrested, authorities said. Man caught in Mississippi FLORENCE -- A man indicted for writing checks on a dead man's account...