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CBS News Correspondant Lee Cowan reports a neighbor of Richard Albert Ricci says he has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury investigating the Smart case.The neighbor claims he saw Ricci digging underneath his home.Investigators confirm they have examined the ground under Ricci's trailer home but are refusing to say what, if anything, they found.

Richat Structure, Mauritania This prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert of Mauritania has attracted attention since the earliest space missions because it forms a conspicuous bull’s-eye in the otherwise rather featureless expanse of the desert. Described by some as looking like an outsized ammonite in the desert, the structure [which has a diameter of almost 50 kilometers (30 miles)] has become a landmark for shuttle crews. Initially interpreted as a meteorite impact structure because of its high degree of circularity, it is now thought to be merely a symmetrical uplift (circular anticline) that has been laid bare by...

6/26/2002 11:44:00 AM KANANASKIS, Alberta, Jun 26, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- AP White House Correspondent President Bush on Wednesday called reports that WorldCom Inc. disguised $3.8 billion in assets outrageous and said the government "will fully investigate and hold people accountable." Bush said he feared the pending bankruptcy would hurt "not only shareholders but employees as well." He said the latest evidence of corporate irresponsibility has hurt the United States stock market. Bush said the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department would investigate. WorldCom, which owns the nation's No. 2 long-distance carrier MCI, said Tuesday that...

Most believers could learn a lot from nonbelievers, not just nonbelievers but real sinful nonbelievers. They can teach you one of the most spiritual and holy lessons in God. In the book of Yonah or Jonah, it records that when God called Jonah he arose and fled. But then God called him again, he arose and went. In the same eagerness with which he rebelled, he later obeyed. Do you want a secret of fruitfulness in God? Simply serve Him as you once served sin. You didn't just sin, you INDULGED in sin. You did'nt sin half heartedly, you went...

Washington -- The Pentagon must make ``modest'' cuts or shifts in major defense programs this year to reduce the explosion of costs when procurement begins in 2008 and 2009, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said. ``It could be a cancellation, it could be shifting something to a farther year out so the cost doesn't hit at exactly the time of other costs,'' he said. ``It could be skipping a generation of technologies. It could be moderating the size of something.'' Rumsfeld worries that ballooning costs in current programs won't allow the U.S. to buy the newer technology needed to make...

WASHINGTON -- A powerful congressional committee says the Navy is cutting corners unwisely to save money on construction of an aircraft carrier in Newport News. It wants Congress to require that the $5 billion ship be equipped with a new, $250 million radar system. In a report released this week, the House Appropriations Committee said the Navy has eschewed a variety of new but expensive technologies in the construction of the carrier, now called CVN-77. To save money, the service plans to outfit the ship with ``vintage radars, basic self-defense capabilities . . . (and) generation-old computer processors,'' the...

<p>More than 100 members of the 28th Infantry Division of the Army National Guard sat in near silence yesterday at the armory in Beechview for one of the last meals they will have with their families before going to serve at military bases in Germany.</p>

Recent graduates be prepared-not for the life ahead of you; we know you have that figured out. No, be prepared for plenty of old people asking you boring questions about your future: what job are you taking, what college are you going to, where are you travelling, will you break up with your sweetheart? You're best memorizing a little monologue that you can recite every time someone asks. The truth is, they're curious because they're somewhat envious. They wish that, when they were 18 and had their whole lives ahead of them, they knew what they know now. By now,...

South Korea and seven other nations kicked off the world's largest multinational maritime drill in the sea off Hawaii yesterday, officials said. The United States hosts the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise with participation of naval forces from Japan, Australia, Canada, Chile, Peru and Britain. It will continue until July 22. The exercise is designed to enhance the tactical capabilities of participating units in major aspects of maritime operations at sea, they said. The exercise began in 1971 as an annual exercise and has been conducted biennially since 1974. This year's exercise, the 18th of its kind,...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Air Force personnel officials have decided to release all but a handful of airmen from stop-loss restrictions that prevented some voluntary departures or retirements. Air Force officials announced June 21 that they will continue to hold just three Air Force Specialty Codes for officers and 15 Air Force Specialty Codes for enlisted airmen under stop loss, which is a Defense Department program designed to retain members of the armed forces beyond established dates of separation or retirement. As a result of lifting the restrictions, only 1,826 officers, out of a total Air Force officer corps of...

Jun 26, 2002U.S. Planes Bomb Iraqi Site in No-Fly Zone The Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - U.S. warplanes bombed an air defense site in northern Iraq on Wednesday after coming under attack from Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery, the U.S. military said. The attack in Ain Zalah, close to Iraq's border with Syria, came during a routine patrol of the zone, the Stuttgart, Germany-based U.S. European Command said in a statement. The planes, based at Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, left the area safely. U.S. and British warplanes have been monitoring "no fly" zones over southern and northern Iraq since...

Methods borrowed from civilian firms applied to militaryBy Jennifer A. Bowen, Belleville News-Democrat For nine years, a civilian has been in charge of the business side of a more than $4 billion military transportation service near Belleville. Trish Young, chief of the business center for U.S. Transportation Command at Scott Air Force Base, is the highest-ranked female civilian at Transcom and is in charge of increasing the efficiency of the military’s transportation company. Young holds a civilian rank equivalent to the military rank of a major. U.S. Transcom is the operation responsible for organizing all of the land, sea and...

Learning in your sleep BEFORE a big exam, a sound night's sleep will do you more good than poring over your textbooks. That, at least, is the folk wisdom. And science, in the form of behavioural psychology, supports that wisdom. But such behavioural studies cannot distinguish between two competing theories of why sleep is good for the memory. One says that sleep is when permanent memories form. The other says that they are actually formed during the day, but then “edited” at night, to flush away what is redundant. To tell the difference, it is necessary to peer into the...

June 20, 2002 Bush And Ashcroft Assail Habeas Corpus, Scholar Says WASHINGTON--Yesterday, the Bush administration asserted sweeping new police powers over the American people. In a legal brief filed with a federal appellate court, the Department of Justice asserted that Yaser Esam Hamdi, who is an American citizen, can be held incommunicado on a military installation as an "enemy combatant." A lower court ruled that Hamdi should have access to an attorney, and the Justice Dept appealed that ruling to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Timothy Lynch, director of the Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice had the following...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Pentagon officials are studying the creation of a "third force" that would fill the gap between active-duty servicemembers — with their full-time commitment — and reservists — who have other professional responsibilities but find themselves mobilized at rates comparable to their "professional" brethren. The concept was brought up Monday by Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly, the newly named chief of Army Reserve. Helmly, meeting the press for the first time since taking the post May 25, said the Defense Planning Guidance released last month contains a requirement for a study on creating a force that, like...

WASHINGTON -- The House Appropriations Committee approved a defense budget Monday that fails to include money sought by local lawmakers to avoid a one-year delay in construction of a future aircraft carrier at Northrop Grumman Newport News. The decision marked the first major obstacle to obtain an additional $229 million for the first CVNX-class carrier, which was initially slated to get under construction in 2006. The Bush administration has proposed delaying the project until 2007, citing a lack of money and time to develop new technology. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last month put the carrier in greater jeopardy by...

U.S. Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Chairman, U.S. Senate Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee In the year since he took over as chairman of the Senate Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee, Jack Reed has distinguished himself more on nuclear weapons policy and missile defense issues than in the area of military space. The first-term senator’s criticism of the U.S. national missile defense program, for example, helped win him the endorsement of the Council for a Livable World, a leading arms control advocacy group in Washington. A former military officer, Reed also has called for increased funding for theater missile defense systems,...

<p>The Senate fell one vote shy Tuesday of approving a package of tax increases to close California's budget gap.</p> <p>Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, D-San Francisco, said the Senate would meet every day to try to approve the budget by the start of the fiscal year Monday.</p>

States Test Tax Credits for Political Contributions Six states now allow individual tax credits for political donations, encouraging more participation by the middle class. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to David Rosenberg, author of an American Enterprise Institute study on the issue. June 26, 2002. link to NPR program

RAMJANE RANGE, Kosovo — Since U.S. soldiers began deploying to the Balkans in the 1990s, many military and civilian leaders have said peacekeeping has undercut the Army’s war-fighting skills. Peacekeeping rotations have led the Army to downgrade its divisions’ war-fighting readiness after units return from six-month peacekeeping deployments in the Balkans. Now, with the war on terrorism taking troops to Central Asia and the Persian Gulf, military officials realize units can’t take a long time to regain their readiness because they might be needed to quickly change from woodland camouflage to a desert battle-dress uniform once their peacekeeping mission...