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New details tonight about a secret Pentagon database used to monitor anti-war protests and activists. Recently-disclosed documents reveal that some of the surveillance targets include an organization with ties to the Central Coast. Secret Pentagon documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union provide details of how the organization called "Veterans for Peace" was considered a threat. Every Sunday for the past three years, members of the Santa Barbara Chapter of Veterans for Peace place a cross in the sand near Stearns Wharf for every American soldier killed in Iraq. First started in Santa Barbara, the "Arlington West" display has...

The concourse is pretty quiet most days at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport, but on a spring night in 2006 about 900 people were milling about at a black-tie affair dining on hors d'oeuvres as they took in a $30,000 laser light and music show. Few knew the lavish, invitation-only party cost $176,000, and even if they did, they probably never would have guessed that the tab was picked up, for the most part, by companies that received public contracts for the $80 million airport renovation. The construction contracts and the big party - a night that cost more than an...

  The Alien pulls the plug on Dreamwork's production of 'Aliens 4'by Casey Flynn A month before production was about to begin on 'Aliens 4,' the Alien pulled out of the project, citing problems with the script. A week before, Ridley Scott, the director of 'Alien', had officially signed on to direct the film. Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerrit, Ian Holmes, and Bill Paxton had as well signed on to be in 'Aliens 4. Unfortunately, in the Alien's contract, he/she was given script approval, and at the last minute, the Alien invoked this contract provision, rejected the Walter Hill script...