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Army sergeant pleads guilty to killing 5 service members in Iraq
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — U.S. Army Sgt. John Russell pleaded guilty Monday to the second-degree murder of five fellow service members at a mental health clinic in Iraq in 2009 after the government agreed to not seek the death penalty....Tags: Mental Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Iraq, Trials, Justice System
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Bales to face sanity review this weekend in Afghan massacre case
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 villagers and wounding six more in Afghanistan, will undergo a government sanity review this weekend to determine his mental state, his attorneys said. Bales...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Murder, Lawyers, Military Justice, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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Bales defers entering plea in Afghan massacre case
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 villagers in Afghanistan, deferred entering a plea when he appeared Thursday morning for his arraignment at a hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, south of Seattle. A veteran of three tours in Iraq before...Tags: Mental Health, Iraq, Crime, Law and Justice, Witnesses, Trials
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Army seeks death for Sgt. Robert Bales in Afghan shooting rampage
SEATTLE -- The commanders at Joint Base Lewis-McChord have decided to refer the case against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales for a general court-martial on charges that he murdered 16 civilians in a late-night shooting rampage outside a remote Army outpost...
Tags: Mental Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Armed Forces, Steroids, Trials
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Timeline: Deadly Mass Killings
A gunman at a Connecticut elementary school killed 26 people, including 20 children, on Friday. It is among the world's worst mass shootings. Here is a look at some others: The...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Virginia Tech, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, Blacksburg, Injuries and Wounds
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Preliminary hearing ends in Afghan massacre case
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Army prosecutors on Tuesday asked an investigative officer to recommend a death penalty court-martial for a staff sergeant accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a predawn rampage, saying that Staff Sgt....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Witnesses, Armed Forces, Afghanistan, Trials
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Sgt. Bales: 'You Guys Are Going to Thank me,' Soldiers Testify
Los Angeles TimesTACOMA, Wash. -- Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales told his fellow soldiers they would be grateful to him in fighting season “come June” following a shooting rampage in which he is accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians. “He said, ‘You guys are going to thank...Tags: Erin Burnett, Mental Health, Trials, Military Justice, U.S. Navy
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The legacy of 1812: Protect our seas, protect our economies
Grand anniversaries often make us ponder the links between our past and our present. Baltimore's superb bi-centennial commemorations for the War of 1812 have been no exception. Watching the buzz of commercial activity in the harbor has reminded me vividly...Tags: International Shipping
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BSO's 'Overture for 2012' draws rousing response
With a giant flag of 15 stars and stripes as a backdrop inside Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, a celebratory concert Sunday night drew a packed house to cap the weekend's commemoration of the War of 1812 bicentennial. As if to underline that there are no hard...
Tags: Philip Glass, War of 1812, Music Industry, Music, Arts and Culture
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For a time, Fort McHenry stood empty as its strategic importance was diminished
The quickly constructed, earthen star-shaped Fort Whetstone, built in 1776, was the first fortification to occupy the site where Fort McHenry now stands. The city's vulnerability to a waterborne attack was exposed in the spring of 1776 when the British...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Fort McHenry, Armed Forces, Manufacturing and Engineering, National Parks
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Blue Angels add awe to Sailabration festivities
Shrieking children covered their ears and adults flinched as the Blue Angels made a low pass over Fort McHenry, only to stretch their necks and shade their eyes to track the Navy jet fighters as they soared into the sun.
At the Inner Harbor, crowds lined...Tags: Auto Racing, Fort McHenry, Fells Point, Music, Equestrian
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Detroit museum to host Navy's War of 1812 display
DETROIT (AP) — The National Museum of the United States Navy's traveling mini-exhibit on the War of 1812 opens this weekend in Detroit. Called "War of 1812: A Nation Forged by War," the display commemorates the conflict's 200-year anniversary....
Tags: Museums, Belle Isle, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arts and Culture, U.S. Navy
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